Miami Vice
Half piña colada, half strawberry daiquiri, all vibes.
The two-tone classic. Make both halves separately and pour side-by-side.
Bench-tested by the Will It Slush? team · Last revised July 22, 2026
Ingredients
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- White Rum235 ml
- Cream of Coconut90 ml
- Pineapple Juice235 ml
- Strawberry Purée (2:1)150 ml
- Fresh Lime Juice60 ml
- Water890 ml
- Vodka (to fortify)305 ml
- Sugar (to taste)37.9 g
Method
- 1.Make piña colada half and strawberry daiquiri half in two batches.
- 2.Pour both sides simultaneously into one glass.
- 3.Garnish with pineapple + strawberry.
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Notes from our testing
Both halves must slush independently; freeze the daiquiri first, hold it, then run the colada.
The Miami Vice is two drinks and the mistake is treating it as one. A strawberry daiquiri and a piña colada have different sugar loads and very different fat content, and if you balance the average you get two halves that are each slightly wrong — the daiquiri too soft, the colada too firm.
Balance them separately. The daiquiri half sits around 11.5 Brix and 10% ABV; the colada half around 11 Brix and 9% ABV because of the coconut fat. Both land inside the window on their own, which is the only way the finished glass holds a clean line between the layers.
With one machine, run the strawberry half first, dispense it into a jug and hold it in the freezer while you rinse the chamber and run the colada. Twenty minutes in the freezer will not ruin a properly balanced slush; it firms slightly and that actually helps the layer hold its edge.
Pour the colada first and the strawberry on top. The colada is denser from the coconut fat, so building in that order means the layers stay put instead of bleeding into pink-brown within a minute.