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VooDoo Juice

We’re headed to St. Thomas soon and planning a short stay at Bolongo Bay. One of the drinks listed on the menu at their beach bar, Iggie’s, is VooDoo Juice, which is described as lots of Cruzan rums, a little juice & a bucket to drink it in! Intrigued, we looked up some recipes for VooDoo Juice and found that this concoction truly is a LOT of rum and a little juice! The recipe below can be used for one tall (and VERY strong) drink or two shorter drinks.

We’ll give VooDoo Juice a try at Bolongo Bay too and let you know how they compare – bucket and all. Pretty sure it’ll taste even better just because we’ll be sitting on a beautiful beach in the warm Caribbean sunshine…

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VooDoo Juice

The only thing scary about this drink is its name and the amount of rum it contains. Be careful for it will surely put you under its spell…
Course: Drinks
Servings: 1 tall

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Pour all ingredients in a tall glass over ice. Stir slightly. (We added just a splash of cherry juice for color.)
  • Garnish with a cherry or orange slice. Float the .5 oz. dark rum on the top just before serving.

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Hot Rum & Chocolate Coffee

Today is the first day of Fall. Not sure how I feel about that. I love changing seasons and colorful leaves and all, but I’m not ready to put away the bathing suits and frozen drinks just yet! Sigh… Anyway, guess it’s time to start thinking about fall flavors. We won’t start the pumpkin stuff just yet, but how about a warm cup of coffee with rum, cinnamon and nutmeg? Mmmm. Still not happy about summer being over, but I must admit, cup of Hot Rum & Chocolate Coffee sounds  pretty good right now!

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Hot Rum & Chocolate Coffee

Servings: 1

Ingredients

Instructions

  • In a saucepan over low heat, stir together the hot coffee, whole milk and sugar until the sugar dissolves and the mixture is nice and warm. 
  • Add the cinnamon, nutmeg and rum and stir again until warm. 
  • Pour into a mug and top with grated chocolate (and whipped cream, if you wish!)
  • If you want to make the drink even more chocolatey, add 1 tsp of chocolate sauce to the saucepan with the coffee, whole milk and sugar. (Calories don't count in the winter, right?!)

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Rum ‘N Eggnog Shooter

It’s called a shooter because of the size of glass it’s served in, but we’d recommend sipping this holiday treat! More like a desert than a drink, it’s looks will impress your guests too! Get the nice layered effect by pouring each layer slowly over the back of a spoon. Use a nice rum for this one for a tasty full bodied mix with the eggnog and Kahlúa.

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Rum 'N Eggnog Shooter

It’s called a shooter because of the size of glass it’s served in, but we’d recommend sipping this holiday treat! More like a dessert than a drink, it’s looks will impress your guests too!
Course: Drinks
Servings: 1 shooter
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Ingredients

Instructions

  • Pour the Kahlúa in the bottom of a shooter glass.
  • Using the back of a spoon, slowly pour the eggnog on top of the Kahlúa.
  • Add the rum on top of the eggnog using the same method as the eggnog.
  • Finish it off with a nice dollop of whipped cream and sprinkle with nutmeg.
  • Before sipping, gently stir to blend all of the layers together.

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Rum & Pumpkin Spice Latte

Gotta love the flavors of fall – especially pumpkin. About this time of year we look forward to spending a few bucks on a warm Pumpkin Spice Latte at our local coffee shop and so we were quite interested in a recipe we found for a homemade Pumpkin Spice Latte.

We put a nice warm cup of it together with a few modifications and then for fun (and because it was a Saturday!), added an ounce of gold rum to the mix. Takes a little more work than the drive-thru window, but it also uses real pumpkin instead of a syrup, tastes pretty darn good and costs a LOT less – so we can enjoy more of them!

This looks (and tastes) great with a healthy dollop of whipped cream on the top. Be sure to play with and adjust the strength of the coffee, and the amount of milk, pumpkin, pumpkin pie spice and brown sugar to find just the perfect taste for you!

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Rum & Pumpkin Spice Latte

This looks (and tastes) great with a healthy dollop of whipped cream on the top. Be sure to play with and adjust the strength of the coffee, and the amount of milk, pumpkin, pumpkin pie spice and brown sugar to find just the perfect taste for you!
Course: Drinks
Servings: 1
Author: Rum Therapy

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Heat, but do not boil, the milk, canned pumpkin and brown sugar in a saucepan. Remove from heat and stir in the pumpkin pie spice, rum, vanilla and coffee. Pour into a mug and top with whipped cream and a sprinkle of pumpkin pie spice, if desired.

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Spooky Rum Punch

Bloody good and easy to make, this deep red concoction will have your guests screaming with delight.

Halloween is just around the corner and we seem to get a lot of requests for rum themed Halloween cocktails. We ran across this one recently and set out to give it a try. After a bit of searching, were able to find the black sanding sugar, but if you have trouble finding it, you can easily make your own using this recipe. The black licorice strings were harder to find, and although a black licorice spider looks really cool (and is edible!) we opted for a plastic one that we dangled from a bamboo pick.

Optionally, you can float some dark rum on the top, which sounds cool, but ours just kept blending with the rest of the cocktail, so we ended up just adding 2 oz. of gold rum and foregoing the dark rum floater.

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Spooky Rum Punch

Tropical Rum Punch, only spookier!!
Course: Drinks
Servings: 1

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Pour the black sanding sugar on a flat plate.
  • Rub the lime wedge on the rim of a cocktail glass, then dip in the black sugar to coat.
  • In a cocktail shaker, add ice, light rum, lime juice, simple syrup and pomegranate juice.
  • Shake about 30 seconds until chilled, then pour into the sugar rimmed glass over ice. Enjoy!!

Notes

A Few Fun Options:
1. Use black string licorice to make a spider garnish!
2. Leave room at the top. Gently pour the dark rum on the top so that it floats.
Mmmm…spooky AND  good!

adapted from recipe found on the Caribbean Rum & Beer Festival FB page


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Dominican Coco Loco

Since we will be visiting the Dominican Republic very soon, we started looking for rum drinks and cocktails from the area to try while we’re there. One that we’ve run across a few times is the Coco Loco. Although there are several versions floating around the internet, this one was identified as a Dominican Coco Loco. We’ll do a little research while down there and let you know if this is close. Even if we nailed the recipe though, I have a sneaky suspicion it may just taste even better served in a coconut on a beautiful beach in the Dominican Republic sunshine…

Update – it definitely tastes better served in a coconut on a beautiful beach in the Dominican Republic, but this recipe will suffice for a little daydreaming!

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Dominican Coco Loco

Servings: 1

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Authentic Rum Punch Recipe

1 of sour
2 of sweet
3 of strong
4 of weak

This is the rhyme commonly used to recall the recipe for an authentic rum punch. Just try remembering it after trying one
(or two!)
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Can’t quite remember where we sampled our first rum punch. Barbados? Jamaica? Hmmm – I know we’ve enjoyed them on many islands, and they all seem to have a completely different taste. Is it the rum used? Is is the “sweet” ingredient or the “weak” ingredient? I think it’s safe to say – all of the above – with a huge dose of “who you’re enjoying it with and where”.

For this recipe we used Grenadine as the “sweet”, although it’s common in countries such as Jamaica to use a strawberry or cherry syrup. A simple syrup (1 part sugar to 2 parts water) can also be used, but you will forfeit the fruity taste and red coloring.

In this recipe we used water as the “weak”. In other rum punch recipes, such as our Caribbean Rum Punch, different fruit juices are used instead of water, creating endless opportunities to vary the taste depending on the juices used. As water seems to be used in the most authentic versions, that’s what we used here – and liked the result!

By using the measurement in the rhyme above, it’s easy to make a large batch of this tasty rum concoction for parties and gatherings by multiplying the measurements – that way you can mix it ahead and just sit back and enjoy….

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Authentic Rum Punch

1 of sour, 2 of sweet, 3 of strong, 4 of weak...this is the rhyme commonly used to remember the recipe for an authentic rum punch.
Course: Drinks
Servings: 1

Ingredients

  • 1 oz. Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
  • 2 oz. Grenadine (simple syrup, cherry syrup or strawberry syrup are also commonly used)
  • 3 oz. Rum (we used Appleton V/X)
  • 4 oz. Water
  • Dash of Angostura Bitters
  • Nutmeg (this is optional in authentic rum punch, but we always use freshly grated nutmeg)

Instructions

  • Pour all ingredients in a glass over ice and stir.
  • Sprinkle with a little freshly grated nutmeg and garnish with a lime or orange slice, add a biodegradeable straw and enjoy!

Notes

We have also used Mount Gay Eclipse with very good results. Some use Wray & Nephew for a very potent punch. Every rum has it’s own unique taste – so experiment to see which you like best!

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Goombay Smash

We were recently alerted to the fact that we didn’t have a recipe for a Goombay Smash on our website by one of our FB rum friends and set out to find out a little more about it.

First of all, what’s with the name? Well the Goombay is the name of a drum sometimes used in Bahamian music. Makes sense. Smash? Drink one and I think you’ll figure it out…

Turns out that we can’t give you the actual recipe for a Goombay Smash, because, well, the recipe is a family secret. This potent and tasty rum drink was created by Emily Cooper of Miss Emily’s Blue Bee Bar in Green Turtle Cay, Bahamas and rumor has it, the actual recipe has never been divulged to anyone outside of the family. The recipe listed below was given to us by the same FB friend J.W., who feels the taste is pretty darn close to the ones he has enjoyed at Miss Emily’s, but even he says there could be some secret ingredient missing.

As far as the authentic version? I think a trip to the Bahamas and a little research at the Blue Bee Bar may be in order…

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Goombay Smash

Goombay is the name of a drum sometimes used in Bahamian music. Smash? Drink one and I think you’ll figure it out…
Course: Drinks
Servings: 1

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Shake all ingredients over ice and until cold. Pour into rocks glasses over ice. Garnish with orange and a cherry, if desired.

Notes

Let us know if you’ve enjoyed a real Goombay Smash at Miss Emily’s Blue Bee Bar!

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Dark Mojito

Here’s another one to add to your Mojito Recipe Files – a Dark Mojito. It’s truly just a slight variation of The Perfect Mojito and a Dirty Mojito and in our opinion, tastes the rummiest of the three! Use a dark rum with a taste that you find pleasant, as the dark rum taste does rise above the milder taste of mint and sugar.

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Dark Mojito

A slight variation on the Mojito, very "rummy"!
Course: Drinks
Servings: 1

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Gently muddle the mint with the lime juice and brown sugar in a tall glass.
  • Add crushed ice and the rum.
  • Fill to the top of the glass with club soda. Garnish with a sprig of mint and enjoy!!

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Pineapple & Rum Sorbet

Pineapple Rum Sorbet – perfect treat for the warm and lazy days of summer! We used an ice cream maker to mix our batch up, but if you don’t have one, just put the mix in a freezer safe container, freeze overnight, then re-mix in the blender and freeze a little longer. Easy and delicious!

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Pineapple Rum Sorbet

Pineapple & Rum Sorbet
(makes 4-6 servings)

1/4 c. gold rum
1 c. water
1 c. sugar
1 fresh, ripe pineapple

Peel and core the pineapple. Cut into chunks and place in a blender. Pour the rum in the blender. Heat water and sugar on the stove until the sugar melts. Cool, then add to the blender. Blend all ingredients just slightly – it’s ok to have small chunks of pineapple (in fact, we prefer it!) Using an ice cream maker (or the method above) freeze the mix. Garnish with pineapple and enjoy.

 

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