Fruit Puree Cocktails

Making cocktails with fruit purees is a growing trend where I live. They are an easy way to rejuvenate the old standards, or spur you to make your own creative recipes. Mixing your cocktails with fruit purees is just plain delicious.

Where I work, we use the products made by Perfect Purees Below is a list of the flavors they offer.

One consideration for you is that, as far as I know, their product is only available in 30oz containers. For perspective, you only need about 1 1/2oz of product for each fruit puree cocktail you make. So 30oz's is great if you are having friends over to cocktail, but may be too much for your own consumption. That is, unless you can find other ways to use your purees; like in your cooking or making a fruit shake in the morning. These purees also freeze well untill you are ready with just the right occassion.

As you can see, there are a lot of options on what to make your fruit puree cocktails with.

• Adam's Green Apple
• All Apricot
• Berry Strawberry
• California Kiwi
• Classic Cassis
• Crazy Coconut
• Hawaiian Papaya
• Key Lime Concentrate
• Lady Lychee
• Marion Blackberry
• Meyer Lemon Concentrate
• More Mango
• Morello Cherry
• Out of the Blueberry
• Passion Fruit Concentrate
• Pink Guava
• Positively Pomegranate Concentrate
• Prickly Pear Cactus Fruit
• Red Raspberry
• Roasted Sweet Red Pepper
• Royal Red Currant
• Scarlet Orange Concentrate
• Sir William Pear
• Sweet Banana
• Sweet Ginger
• Sweet Lemon Zest
• Sweet Orange Zest
• Tracy's Tamarind
• White Peach

Here are a few fruit puree cocktail recipes to get you thinking:

Fall Peach

1 1/2oz whiskey
1 1/2oz sours mix
1 1/2oz white peach puree

Shake ingrediets cold and strain into a martini glass.

Guazmo

This is a guava Cosmopolitan. The recipe calls for using guava puree rather than the usual cranberry juice.

1 1/2oz citrus vodka
1oz triple sec or Cointreau
1 1/2oz guava puree
1/2oz fresh lime juice
splash sours mix

Muddle a couple of limes, and mix in the other ingredients. Shake cold and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with a lime wedge.

Mango Margarita

1 1/2oz tequila
1oz triple sec, or cointreau
1 1/2oz mango puree
2oz sours mix
1/2oz fresh lime juice

Muddle a couple of limes and mix liquid ingredients. Shake cold and serve on the rocks in a bucket glass. Garnish with a lime wedge. Salted rim is optional.

Marion Blackberry Sangria

1/2oz brandy
1/2oz peach schnapps
1/4oz simple syrup
1 1/2 marion blackberry puree
splash orange juice
splash sours mix
4oz dry Spanish wine

Mix ingredients together, and shake cold. Serve on the rocks in a pint glass or goblet. Garnish with an orange wedge, or whatever other fruit you have on hand.

White Peach Bellini

Everyone loves Bellini's. This fruit puree cocktail is almost a guaranteed hit.

4oz Champagne
1 1/2oz white peach puree
1/4oz peach schnapps

In a champagne flute pout 1/4oz peach schnapps. This helps blend the white peach puree and the Champagne together. Now add 1 1/2oz peach puree. Top off with the Champagne. Garnish with a peach wedge if in season. You could also garnish with a raspberries or strawberry slices.

Have fun making these fruit puree cocktail recipes. You can learn more about their product at: Perfect Purees