Miami Vice
Ingredients
- 1 ⅓ oz Light white rum
- ⅓ oz Cachaça
- 2 ⅓ oz Pineapple juice
- ½ oz Cream of coconut
- ⅓ oz Lime juice
- ⅙ oz Whipping cream
- ¼ barspoon Xanthan gum
- 1 ½ oz Light gold rum
- ½ oz Sugar syrup 'rich' 65.0°Brix
- 5 fresh Strawberries
Method
Glassware:
Serve in a Poco grande
Prepare:
- Select and pre-chill a POCO GRANDE GLASS.
- Prepare garnish of pineapple wedge skewered with mint sprig-topped strawberry and paper parasol.
Method:
- DRY BLEND (without ice) first 6 ingredients on a slow setting and then gradually add Xanthan while continuing to blend.
- Add 7oz scoop of crushed ice and BLEND some more.
- Now you’ve made the first half of this cocktail, if you have a second blender, use this to continue. Otherwise, POUR the contents of the blender (the first half of the cocktail) into chilled glass and place in a freezer.
- DRY BLEND (without ice) next 4 ingredients (all but Xanthan gum) on a slow setting and then gradually add Xanthan while continuing to blend.
- Add 7oz scoop of crushed ice and BLEND some more.
- Either, POUR over first half in the glass from freezer, or, if you have two blenders, place a vertical divider (cut from thin plastic) in the glass and simultaneously pour the contents of both blenders, one on each side of the divider. Remove divider to create a split, two cocktails in one glass effect.
Garnish:
- Garnish with pineapple wedge skewered with mint sprig-topped strawberry and paper parasol.
- Serve with a straw.
Allergens:
Recipe contains the following allergens:
History:
The Miami Vice cocktail was born in the early 1980s on the back of the popularity of the then-new frozen drink (slush) machines. One day, perhaps in the eponymous city, some bright spark poured a Strawberry Daiquiri from one machine and then topped it with a Piña Colada from another. Genius!
Some say this cocktail predates the Miami Vice television crime drama series starring "Sonny" and "Rico", undercover Miami police
Detectives. However, the series was first screened on NBC on 16 September 1984, so, chances are the cocktail was named after this date, although the split cocktail concept could have predated the name.
Review:
A frozen Piña Colada and Strawberry Daiquiri served in the same glass, either with one on top of the other, or one on each side of the glass. A frozen cocktail for the indecisive!
This cocktail is usually served in bars with frozen drink/slush machines, with the two different cocktails that comprise a Miami Vice, poured from two separate taps.
