Cheers the New Year with Sparkling Pineapple Libations
Pineapple is a versatile fruit, symbolizing hospitality and offering a number of important health benefits that can do everything from giving your immune system a boost to preventing disease. Add the Perfect Pineapple to your New Year’s traditions and ring in 2019 with health and good cheer. A perfect sipping libation as the ball drops, or to sip on as spring makes its way back to our hemisphere, we have a few of our favorite recipes ready to shake up your holidays.
Pineapple Mimosas
Ingredients
- Coconut Rum
- Sparking wine or champagne
- 1 Chestnut Hill Farms Pineapple, cut, juice set aside
- Cherries for garnish (optional)
Directions
- Cut your Chestnut Hill Farms Pineapple (click here to learn how) and save juice. Set to side.
- Pour coconut rum and reserved fresh pineapple juice into a champagne flute or glass.
- Top with champagne or sparkling wine.
- Garnish with fresh pineapple and a cherry, serve and enjoy!
Original recipe inspiration by Crazy for Crust
The Perfect Pineapple French 75
Ingredients
- 1.5 oz gin
- 1 Chestnut Hill Farms Pineapple, diced, reserving juice
- 5 oz champagne or sparkling wine
Directions
- Cut your Chestnut Hill Farms Pineapple (click here to learn how) and save juice. Set to side.
- Pour gin and reserved fresh pineapple juice into a champagne flute or glass.
- Top with champagne or sparkling wine.
- Garnish with fresh pineapple, serve and enjoy!
The Perfect Pineapple Punch
Ingredients:
- 1 Chestnut Hill Farms Pineapple, cored and sliced
- 1 1/2 oz Plantation Pineapple Rum
- 1 oz Diplomatico Rum
- 3/4 oz Giffard Orgeat Syrup
- 1/2 oz Allspice Dram
- 1 oz Lime Juice
- 1 oz Passion Fruit Juice (Alternative – Fresh Pineapple Juice from your Chestnut Hill Farms pineapple)
- 10 Drops Hibiscus Bitters (Alternative – 3-4 drops Angostura Bitters)
Directions:
Slice off the top of a Chestnut Hill Farms pineapple and core until the inside of the pineapple is hollow using a slicer or knife. Remove pineapple meat and place to side, conserving any juice.
Add 1 1/2 oz Plantation Pineapple Rum, 1 oz Diplomatico Rum, 1/2 oz Allspice Dram, 3/4 oz Giffard Orgeat, 1 oz Passion Fruit or Pineapple Juice, 1 oz Lime Juice, and bitters into a shaker. Add ice into shaker, close lid, and shake for approximately 10 seconds.
Add ice into cored Chestnut Hill Farms pineapple, and strain cocktail from shaker over the ice. Garnish with fresh Chestnut Hill Farms pineapple slices and enjoy!