Frozen Daiquiri Recipes

The Best Frozen Daiquiri Recipes: From Strawberry to Banana to Watermelon

The Daiquiri is a drink steeped in legend. It’s a cocktail staple, known for its simplicity and elegance. While some variation of the drink had been around for years, its worldwide appeal has been attributed to American military personnel in Cuba, a pioneering U.S. Navy Admiral, and an American literary giant. Below we provide the recipe for several frozen variations. For the best results, please use the freshest ingredients. And if you’d like to learn more about the history of this amazing cocktail, please click here.

Traditional Frozen Daiquiri Recipe

Ingredients:

2 oz white rum
1 oz fresh lime juice
½ oz of simple syrup
Dash of maraschino liqueur

Steps:

Combine all of the ingredients with ½ cup of ice into a blender.
Blend until smooth.
Pour into a chilled cocktail glass and serve.

Fruit Daiquiri – Choose your favorite fruit!

Strawberry: ½ cup of sliced strawberries, and if you have it, add a recommended splash of crème de framboise.
Banana: ½ a cup of sliced banana, and if you have it, add a splash of banana liqueur.
Pineapple: ½ a cup of cubed pineapple.
Peach: ½ cup of sliced peaches, and if you have it, add ½ oz of peach brandy.
See Watermelon separately below.

Add:

2 oz white rum
¾ oz fresh lime juice
½ oz of simple syrup or Demerara syrup
Dash of maraschino liqueur
Dash of dark rum
Wedge of chosen fruit

Steps:

Combine all of the ingredients excluding the garnish with ½ cup of ice.
Blend until smooth.
Pour into a chilled cocktail glass.
Garnish with a wedge of fruit.

For Large Parties

2 cups white rum
Juice from 8 fresh-squeezed limes
½ cup simple syrup
One 16-ounce package of your favorite frozen fruit
4 cups of cube ice

Watermelon Daiquiri

Ingredients:

1 cup of seedless, cubed watermelon
2 oz white rum
1 oz fresh lime juice
½ oz of simple syrup
Bonus: add a scoop of lime sorbet
Slice of lime

Steps:

Puree just the watermelon in the blender.
Add all of the other ingredients excluding the garnish along with ½ cup of ice, blend until smooth, pour into a chilled cocktail glass and garnish with the slice of lime.