24th
pina colada… perfected
A friend’s invitation to a house at Norris Lake, TN for the weekend was the perfect excuse to have some fun with cocktail recipes. Telling him that he was in for a surprise, I brought along 10 pineapples (only 5 pictured obviously):
After a little over an hour of making use of the available kitchen knives and enduring pain from the acidity of the juice, these pineapples were no longer your average pineapple. They had been transformed…
Into the ultimate pina colada imbibing receptacle! With the cups made, it was time to add the perfect recipe:
1.5oz light rum (Appleton Estate)
2oz Coco Lopez Cream of Coconut
2oz Pineapple juice (used the insides of the pineapple, blended)
1c crushed ice
Batch produced at 8X for consumption, each pineapple held a delightful ~3 drinks worth - no worse than a Long Island. However, the kicker was that each one was a whopping 1180 calories! (Largely due to the Cream of Coconut weighing in at 130cal/oz!) That didn’t deter us from drinking a handful of them over the course of the evening. I mean, who could resist this:
