Roasted Cherry Colada

Serves
makes 1 cocktail
Time
15 minutes

MATT TAYLOR-GROSS

A classic piña colada gets an extra deep flavor with the addition of smoky roasted cherries.

Featured in: Sweet Summer Cherries Deserve a Place in Your Drink

Ingredients

2 oz. white rum
1 ³⁄₄ oz. Luxardo Sangue Morlacco
1 oz. coconut milk
1 oz. fresh lime juice
¹⁄₂ tsp. demerara sugar
10 dashes Miracle Mile Forbidden Barrel Aged Bitters
3 roasted cherries, plus 1, halved lengthwise, for garnish
1 oz. black rum
1 tsp. Everclear

Instructions

Step 1

In a blender, combine white rum, Luxardo, coconut milk, lime juice, sugar, bitters, 3 cherries, and 1 cup ice and purée until smooth; pour into a tiki glass and top with black rum. Place halved cherry, cut-side up, on top of cocktail and fill with Everclear before lighting cherry on fire.

In a blender, combine white rum, Luxardo, coconut milk, lime juice, sugar, bitters, 3 cherries, and 1 cup ice and purée until smooth; pour into a tiki glass and top with black rum. Place halved cherry, cut-side up, on top of cocktail and fill with Everclear before lighting cherry on fire.