Blue curaçao does the heavy lifting visually.
Bench-tested by the Will It Slush? team · Last revised July 21, 2026
Ingredients
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- White Rum175 ml
- Blue Curaçao120 ml
- Pineapple Juice295 ml
- Cream of Coconut60 ml
- Water235 ml
Method
- 1.Combine in Slushi, run 60 min.
- 2.Hurricane glass.
- 3.Pineapple, cherry, paper umbrella.
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Notes from our testing
Blue curaçao is 20-25% ABV and heavily sweetened — it counts twice in your calculation.
Blue curaçao is the whole recipe's swing factor. Depending on brand it runs between 20 and 25% ABV and somewhere around 28 Brix, so every ounce you add moves both numbers at once. Two brands that look identical on the shelf can put your batch two points apart on sugar.
We build with 1.5 oz of curaçao, 3 oz of light rum, 4 oz of pineapple juice and about 1.5 oz of cream of coconut, landing near 10% ABV and 11.5 Brix. The Brix target is deliberately low because the coconut fat softens the texture, the same effect covered in the piña colada notes.
Colour is the point of this drink and freezing dulls it. The finished slush always reads paler than the liquid mix because you are looking at ice crystals scattering light. If you want the electric blue people expect from the photos, go slightly heavier on curaçao and pull an equivalent amount of syrup back out.
Check the label for ABV before you calculate. Some supermarket curaçaos are sold as non-alcoholic syrups at 0%, which changes the build entirely — you would need to add most of a shot of rum to compensate.