So whenever I go to to Wahaca (for you non-Brits, it's a mid-range chain Mexican restaurant), I order a Vanilla Passionfruit Mojito. Sweet, fruity, with a kick from the rum and lime, it's a really refreshing, light cocktail that's perfect for warmer weather with total holiday vibes. However I've never been able to find a recipe to recreate it, or seen it on offer anywhere else. Solution? Figure it out myself! And thus, this Vanilla Passionfruit Mojito cocktail recipe was born.
I've only made it the once so far so the recipe is a bit of a work in progress. Even when you follow a recipe to a T dishes and drinks can turn out completely different each time depending on variations in ingredients and a whole heap of other extenuating factors. Long story short, this may need a couple of tweaks over time but it tasted pretty darn good based on this here recipe when I made it!
If you give it a try, let me know in the comments or tag me on Instagram! And if you're a mojito fan, make sure to try my Watermelon Mojito Recipe. It's a drink my flatmates make me make over and over, because it's just that good. Or have a browse of my full recipe section to see if anything takes your fancy...
Vanilla Passionfruit Mojito Cocktail Recipe
Ingredients
- 3 oz white rum I used Bacardi Carta Blanca
- 2 passionfruit
- 1 lime
- 1.5 oz simple syrup (equal parts water and sugar heated until the sugar evaporates)
- 3/4 oz vanilla syrup I used Monin
- Dozen mint leaves
- soda water
- ice
Instructions
- Prepare simple syrup by gently heating equal parts water and sugar (I usually just eyeball it!) until the sugar has evaporated. Leave aside to cool.
- Muddle juice from 1 lime, pulp from 1 passionfruit, mint leaves (leave a couple aside for garnish) and simple syrup in your shaker.
- Pour in the vanilla syrup, white rum, and fill shaker with ice. Shake for roughly 30secs, until shaker is cold and exterior is frosted.
- Pour the contents of the shaker into two ice filled tumblers. Top with soda water.
- Garnish with the second passionfruit, sliced in half, and a sprig of mint.
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