Blending combines ingredients with ice at high speed into a smooth, frozen consistency. The technique for frozen cocktails where a slushy, frosty texture is the goal.

A creamy piña colada variation blending amaretto and light rum with pineapple juice and coconut cream, folding almond sweetness into the tropics for a dessert-like sip.

Amaretto Colada

A Brazilian blender drink that whips cachaça with coconut milk and condensed milk into a dense, tropical milkshake with grassy rum bite tucked under the sweet cream.

Batida de Coco

Puerto Rico's cherished holiday tradition blends white or aged rum with coconut cream, condensed milk, and warm spices into a silky, tropical answer to eggnog — rich, sweet, and unmistakably festive in every sip.

Coquito

A Jamaican poolside blender drink that melts dark rum, banana liqueur, and coffee liqueur into cold cream for a milkshake-thick dessert with a mocha-and-ripe-fruit finish.

Dirty Banana

A blender-spun take on the Cuban classic where light rum, lime, and sugar whir into a slushy, snow-white cooler that hits bright, tart, and icy without ever tipping into slushie-sweet.

Frozen Daiquiri

A tropical frozen Margarita with ripe mango -- blended with ice for a slushy, refreshing Mexican beach drink.

Frozen Mango Margarita

The classic Margarita blended with ice into a slushy frozen drink. The frozen format rounds out the tartness and makes the drink particularly refreshing in warm weather. A staple of Tex-Mex restaurants and outdoor bars.

Frozen Margarita

The blended version of the original Puerto Rican pool-side classic — rum, coconut cream, and pineapple whirred with ice into a thick, frosty, tropical slush that has been cooling down summer days since 1954 at San Juan's Caribe Hilton.

Frozen Piña Colada

The classic frozen strawberry daiquiri — light rum, lime juice, simple syrup, and fresh strawberry purée blended with ice into a slushy, sweet-tart, brilliantly red frozen cocktail that is the gateway drug to tiki and tropical drinking.

Frozen Strawberry Daiquiri

A classic frozen strawberry Margarita blended with ice -- bright berry sweetness balanced with tequila's kick and lime's tartness.

Frozen Strawberry Margarita

A blended, frappé-style Don the Beachcomber tiki built from light rum, peach brandy, honey, lime, fresh mint, and pineapple — tasting like a green, herbal orchard smoothie.

Missionary's Downfall

Puerto Rico's blended beach classic of rum, coconut cream, and pineapple juice whipped into a creamy, frozen tropical pour that tastes like sunshine in a hurricane glass.

Piña Colada

A summery frozen-pink reimagining of the daiquiri in which ripe strawberry purée joins light rum, lime, and sugar for a jammy, fruit-forward sour that still snaps from the citrus.

Mix In Blender

How To Mix In Blender

13 Cocktails using this method