Authentic Piña Colada Recipe Puerto Rico, North America

This tropical cocktail is prepared by blending white rum, coconut cream, and pineapple juice in a blender with ice. Alternatively, the ingredients can also be shaken in a cocktail mixer glass, or just added to the glass together with ice. Recipes, however, do vary in the proportions of the ingredients used, as well as the type of rum. Some noted variations on the original include Amaretto Colada which has amaretto in place of white rum and Chi Chi which has vodka instead of rum. A combination of strawberry daiquiri and piña colada is called Lava Flow, while Kiwi Colada is made with kiwifruit. There is also a non-alcoholic version of the cocktail is called Virgin Piña Colada or Piñita Colada. Piña Colada is served in a large goblet or a Hurricane glass with a couple of straws and garnished with a pineapple wedge and/or maraschino cherry.