Are you looking for the perfect cocktail for summertime well we are making the paradise
cocktail and I'm actually in paradise cove Malibu right now which is one of
my favorite beaches and this cocktail is so delicious and it is perfect to enjoy
on a hot day at the beach my name is Alyena so now let's go back to my kitchen and make it
we are back in our kitchen and it is time to make our paradise cocktail
the first thing we are going to do to make our drink is add half an ounce of grenadine to our
cup it is very important that you don't put ice in your cup first you add the ice after
because this drink has three different layers and it makes it so beautiful so these steps are very
important and I'm making two different cocktails today one with store-bought grenadine and one with
a homemade grenadine the reason I'm doing this is it's very hard to find it is possible but i went
to a few stores and i could not find grenadine that didn't have high fructose corn syrup in it
so i wanted to make my own and do a taste test to see which one is better so for the homemade
grenadine it is just one cup of pomegranate juice one cup of sugar and the zest of one
orange you can add more or less orange depending on how orangey you want it to be and then you
simmer this down for about 15 minutes and then take it off the heat and allow it to cool fully so
let's start making our drink i have half an ounce of my store-bought grenadine going in my glass
these are two ounce shot glasses by the way i have made that mistake before
i will say i really like the smell of the homemade because you can really smell the pomegranate
you do want to do this drink in stages instead of just adding
it all to your glass because this helps keep the layers so here i have my two glasses and
this is our pineapple rum layer so we're going to have three ounces of pure pineapple juice
give it a shake you can also make this freshly squeezed it is totally up to you
to make our drink a little boozy i have some malibu rum
and we're going to add in two ounces of malibu
and now we can just give this a quick stir together to make sure it's totally combined
all right and now we can set these glasses a little bit off to the side and take our final
glasses in the center so here i have just one ounce of water in each of my glasses and to that i
am going to add in my blue curacao blue curacao is just an orange liqueur that they added some color
to and it adds a really pretty color to the string and we are going to add in a fourth of an ounce
okay now it's time to make our cocktail i'm so excited and i will say you can see
a very big difference between the homemade grenadine and the store-bought grenadine
and now we can add in our ice and i will say it's really important to use crushed ice for this drink
because it slows down the liquid as you pour it in we actually did film this drink in paradise cove
but it was a bit of a disaster i fell if you see my bruises right now i fell on a bench and
was really hurt and then the mics kept cutting out it was just a bit of a hot mess of a day i'm
not gonna lie so we decided to refilm it at home because i was like we have to make this drink it's
one of my new favorite cocktails okay and now we can slowly pour in our pineapple and rum mixture
and i'm adding just a little bit more ice on top because you do want this drink packed with ice
and now we can pour our blue curacao over the top of our drink and watch the color change i
think this is one of the prettiest parts okay and here we have our finished paradise cocktail and i
have to say it is absolutely beautiful it is so colorful i absolutely love this drink and i will
say i like the color of the store-bought grenadine better than the homemade grenadine just because
it's a brighter color and it's more red but now it's important to give it the actual taste test
and this drink is very much like drinking a mai tai when i was in hawaii
they taught me how to drink a mai tai correctly so instead of just stirring your drink all together
you want to taste each layer so as you take a sip
you pull your straw up through the drink so you're tasting each layer let's do it
that is delicious now let's see how it tastes with the homemade grenadine
that was a big sip
okay i have to say if i'm comparing them i do like the homemade grenadine a little bit better just
because it adds a bit more flavor to the drink and you can taste that pomegranate so it just adds
another dimension but if you don't want to make it homemade you can always just buy it store-bought
and i will say i like the color of the store-bought a little bit better
so it is just up to your preference at the end of the day please let me know
what you think about this cocktail in the comments down below also if you'd like to
see a few more of my cocktail recipes there will be a playlist right here or over here
thank you so much for watching and i hope to see you next week bye for now
you