Tropical Dream Drink Recipe
Looking for an instant vacation? Try this easy-to-make 3 ingredient tropical dream drink recipe. This tropical drink will have you feeling like your on a tropical vacation in no time!
Last month, my husband and I went on an 8-day Southern Caribbean cruise. During our stops we spent a day in Curacao. By far my favorite island we visited while on that cruise. The people were friendly and the beaches were beautiful. The water… sigh… the water was crystal clear.
While in Curacao we we decided to go snorkeling verse our normal scuba diving. Our cruise ship arrived later in the afternoon to the port and didn’t give us enough time to dive. With recommendations from a friend we took a taxi to a local beach and brought our own snorkles. We saw a dive shop and asked the dive master about snorkeling conditions around the beach. He told us to swim outside the channel and we would instantly swim into a fish tank. So we took his advice and swam out past the channel.
Seriously, he was not lieing. It was the most amazing snorkeling we’ve ever done. Heck just as good as some or most of the dives we’ve been on. The water was sparkling clear. We were 20-30 feet in water and could see perfectly down to the bottom. Schools of angel fish swam passed us and sea urchins galore on the rocks. After our amazing snorkel we spent an hour on the beach and then headed back into town where we met up with fellow cruise mates to have dinner and drinks. While at a local restaurant we ordered a drink very similar to this Tropical Dream drink recipe I’m sharing today.
Curacao is known for the Blue Curacao liquor. We did not pick up any on our trip, because my parents had just visited a few months prior and bought us a huge bottle! As soon as we got home we opened it up and started experimenting on making delicious tropical drink recipes. I can’t tell you how many times we’ve made this drink since returning from vacation. It’s pretty much a Friday ritual for us. It makes us feel like we our drinking our summer vacation in a glass!
Katie Original Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 oz. Malibu Rum
- 1 oz. Blue Curacao
- 5 oz. Pineapple Juice
- Maraschino cherries for garnish
Directions
- Fill an 10 oz glass with ice. Then pour in Malibu, Blue Curacao and top with pineapple juice. (*we found that 5 oz. worked best but you can add more or less to your desire). Stir and garnish with a few maraschino cherries.
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What a fun cocktail…I’ll take summer in a glass! Thanks for sharing about your trip, Katie. And, have a fabulous Labor Day holiday weekend! Pinning!
Thanks Stacy! I want summer in a glass all year round!
Just looking at this made me feel like I was on a cruise before I even read this was inspired from a cruise!! I haven’t been to that island but what an amazing snorkel.
Cathy–great minds think a like! You need to put Curacao on your list of islands to visit followed by Isla Roatan, Honduras and Barbados!
I’m so sad that I have no beachy vacation plans right now that I’m going to drink about 13 of these for lunch. Homeschooling the kids this afternoon is going to be awesome!
hahah Karly. 13 of these sound like a good plan.
I’m kind of (okay totally) jealous of your vacation! It sounds magical. Except I’m totally scared to go on a cruise after all of the crazy issues lately.
Rachel–don’t be scared. I’ve been cruising since 1999 and love it–I’ve been on tons of them. Like Ali pointed out I’m the cruise queen. Stuff can go wrong anywhere… you just have to hope it doesn’t happen to you! 🙂
You are the queen of cruises! 🙂 Sounds like so much fun!
And this drink definitely looks dreamy!
hahah Ali, that I definitely am and can’t deny it! We are actually going on one more cruise this year!
My sister will love this drink. Right up her alley! 🙂
Thanks Addie!
Just reading the words ‘tropical dream drink’ were enough to sell this recipe to me! Yum! So glad that you guys had a beautiful trip away. This is my first trip to your gorgeous blog and I can’t wait to read more of your archives. Beautiful xx
Thanks Laura! Yes, I want one of these now to feel like I’m back on vacation!
Oh how yummy 🙂 and so pretty too!
This has been my favorite drink and now we are going on this same cruise as you. Can’t wait to see the birth home of one of my fav drinks! We were unsure what else therewas to do on Curaceo.
Doyou recall what beach you snorekeled at?
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You will love it! Vicki–I wish I remembered I just remember that we took a taxi to it from the cruise ship and it was fairly inexpensive. We brought our own snorkel gear, swimmer around the channel rocks and had some of the best snorkeling ever!!! Afterwards we went to dinner on the water since our boat was in port until 11pm. We will definitely visit Curaco again once my son gets a little older. We loved it!
Sounds delicious. Would this work as a shooter for a wedding reception?
Thanks Kelly! I don’t see why not. You would just have to tweak the amounts to make it into the form of a shot!