Piña Colada Cocktail Fancies Food

CLASSIC PIñA COLADA

Steps:

• In a blender, pour in all the ingredients.
• Add ice cubes. You can also swap out a couple of ice cubes with frozen pineapple chunks to enhance the flavor. Blend until smooth.
• Pour mixture into a Poco Grande glass.
• Garnish with a pineapple wedge and cherry. You can also put a tiny umbrella to add fancy effects.

PINA COLADA COCKTAIL

Steps:

• Combine rum, cream of coconut, pineapple, and ice in a blender. Puree on high speed until smooth. Pour into chilled Collins glass and serve with a straw.

PIñA COLADA COCKTAIL FANCIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Butter a 30 x 20cm tin and line with baking parchment. Put the cake ingredients in a bowl except for the rum. Whisk until smooth using an electric whisk, then transfer to the tin, smooth out and bake for 30-35mins until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. Leave to cool completely.
• Meanwhile, for the filling, whisk the butter, icing sugar and milk together until smooth, then transfer to a piping bag.
• When the cake is cold, slice off the top so it's flat, turn over, trim and cut into neat, approx. 4cm squares (four squares across and seven down). You should have 28. Dip each one briefly in the rum and sit dipped-side up. Put a tiny dot of pineapple jam on top of each cake, then pipe a raspberry-sized ball of the buttercream filling on top of each one.
• For the icing, mix the fondant icing sugar, yellow colouring and enough water to make it a condensed milk consistency. Put the cakes on wire racks set over trays to catch the drips, then coat each one in the icing. The best way to do this is to hold each one over the bowl of icing on a slotted spoon then generously drizzle over the icing with a tablespoon. Remove from the slotted spoon with a cutlery knife and sit on the rack to dry. Drizzle with runny white icing and garnish with dried pineapple pieces and coconut flakes. Serve in cake cases, if you like. Will keep for two days in an airtight container. Why not also try our strawberry daiquiri and espresso martini fancies?

PINA COLADA

Steps:

• Put the ice, frozen pineapple, juice, coconut cream, and the white and dark rums into a blender. Blend until smooth and frosty. Pour the drink into 2 glasses and garnish the rim with pineapple slices.

PIñA COLADA

Steps:

• Pulse all the ingredients along with a handful of ice in a blender until smooth. Pour into a tall glass and garnish as you like.

VIRGIN PIñA COLADA

Steps:

• To make a mock rum syrup, put the dark brown muscovado sugar and 200ml water in a saucepan, stir well and heat gently until the sugar has dissolved. Add a few strips of skin from the pineapple, add the black peppercorns, cloves and a cinnamon stick, then bring to the boil. Turn off the heat and leave to infuse until cold. Strain into a jug and set aside in the fridge until needed. Will keep for up to three days.
• Pour the pineapple juice into a tall glass, and add the coconut milk and lime juice. Stir gently. Fill up the glass with a handful ice then slowly add 25ml of the syrup so it sinks to the bottom. Garnish with pineapple leaves and a tinned cherry.