Rainbow Paradise Cocktail With Blue Curacao

A delicious tropical cocktail with blue curacao, perfect for the summer months! And absolutely perfect for Pride; the rainbow paradise cocktail with blue curacao.

This layered cocktail not only looks amazing, but the blue curacao cocktail is also super delicious and not difficult to make. You don’t need a cocktail set, though a jigger would be convenient. If you don’t have one, use a shotglass.

And you can serve it in a long drink glass or a hurricane glass.

Pouring in the top layer is the trickiest part, but with this rainbow paradise cocktail with blue curacao, you can really score points.

Enjoy this rainbow paradise cocktail recipe! This is one of the most colorful cocktails you can imagine.

With our rainbow recipes we try to make the world a little more colorful and accepting from the kitchen! Are you helping? Share your creations through #rainbowrecipes. We are also sharing more rainbow drinks, like this rainbow smoothie!

Rainbow Paradise Cocktail Ingredients

This summer cocktail is made with grenadine syrup, pineapple juice, malibu, blue curacao, a bit of water, and lots of ice. Make sure you have all these ingredients at home before you start making this rainbow cocktail drink.

If you want to vary, use coconut water instead of normal water! This gives the cocktail an extra delicious coconut flavor.

You can also use orange juice instead of pineapple juice and vodka instead of malibu, but then the order will be slightly different! More about that later.

How To Make A Rainbow Cocktail?

Once you have all the ingredients, we can start making the rainbow mixed drink! But how do you make a rainbow cocktail?

To make the colors of the rainbow, first pour the grenadine syrup (16 oz / 40 ml) into a 400 ml glass. Then, fill the glass with ice cubes or crushed ice.

Mix 4 oz / 160 ml pineapple juice in a separate cup with 2 oz / 80 ml Malibu. Pour this mixture over the glass with grenadine syrup and ice.

To create an orange layer, you can stir for a moment. You’ll see that the red layer mixes with the yellow, and then you get orange! The glass already seems full, but we promise you: the last layer still fits.

It will be one of the most colorful layered cocktails you’ve ever seen!

Blue Curacao Cocktail

The last layer is the hardest and trickiest. In a separate cup, mix 1 oz / 40 ml water with ½ oz / 20 ml blue curacao (if you don’t, the blue layer will sink). Carefully pour this (use a spoon) over the yellow layer.

You will see that blue and yellow mix to green, and the top layer remains beautifully blue.

Voilà, your rainbow cocktail is ready! To finish it, serve with a lemon/lime slice or orange twist.

Rainbow Cocktail Variations

Do you want to use orange juice and vodka for this paradise rainbow cocktail recipe? You can! Then you use orange juice instead of pineapple juice and vodka instead of malibu.

You only pour the orange juice over the grenadine syrup and mix the vodka with blue curacao for the top layer. So you don’t use water in the recipe.

Then the pouring order is:

1. Grenadine syrup (1 oz / 40 ml) + ice
2. Orange juice (5 oz / 200 ml)
3. Blue curacao (½ oz / 20 ml) + vodka (2 oz / 80 ml) (carefully!)

So you do NOT use water and do NOT mix the orange juice, otherwise it will not work and the blue layer will sink to the bottom.

And if you want to vary the recipe and do use pineapple juice, malibu, and water, use coconut water instead of normal water! This gives the cocktail an extra delicious coconut flavor.

Other colorful mixed drinks great to make: this frozen vodka drink and trans Pride cocktail recipe!

Make Your Own Cocktail

For this recipe, you don’t really need a cocktail set, but it is helpful to use a jigger to measure your ingredients.

We have an EU-standard 20/40 ml jigger and used the ml measurements, but you can use a 1 / 2 oz jigger and stick to the oz measurements (see cocktail recipe card below). In ounces, it will be a smaller drink.

If you don’t have a jigger, you can also use a shot glass (in Europe, standard shot glasses measure 40 ml, in the USA, they measure 2 oz).

Rainbow Recipes

Check out more rainbow recipes on our website, which you can make every day of Pride Month (and every other day of the year). For example, a rainbow slush puppy, this rainbow Buddha bowl, rainbow popcorn, and rainbow cupcakes!

Together, we can make the world more colorful and accepting from the kitchen. Help and share your creations through #rainbowrecipes!

Enjoy this rainbow paradise cocktail with blue curacao! And be sure to let us know in the comments how this rainbow cocktail recipe turned out for you.

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