Cocktail recipe

Blue Hawaii

A blended cocktail featuring Light Rum, Vodka, Pineapple juice.

Blue Hawaii cocktail

Ingredients

  • 22.5 ml White Rum
  • 22.5 ml Vodka
  • 90 ml Pineapple Juice
  • 15 ml Blue Curaçao
  • 15 ml Lime Juice
  • 15 ml Lemon Juice
  • 15 ml Simple Syrup

Method

  1. Place the rum, vodka, juices, blue curaçao, and syrup in a blender with about 1/2 cup of crushed ice.
  2. Pulse for 4–5 seconds, just until mixed and chilled.
  3. Pour into a hurricane glass filled with more crushed ice.
  4. Optional garnish: sliced pineapple, pineapple fronds, orchid.

Story

Harry Yee of the Hilton Hawaiian Village created it in 1957 when a Bols representative asked him to make something with their blue curaçao. Not to be confused with the Elvis film of 1961.