Smashin’ Passion Cocktail Recipe

Raise a glass to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day a wee early (since it falls on a Tuesday this year) or embrace the spring in the air by mixing up a refreshing and fruity cocktail that is decidedly not green.

Just a few simple ingredients create this beautifully balanced refreshment, notes its creator, mixologist Kathy Casey, who contributed this to Drinks magazine. Bacardi Limón rum is a great example of a flavored spirit that mixes with sophisticated flair. Cheers!

Smashin’ Passion

Makes 1 drink

1 large lime wedge
1 1/2 oz. Bacardi Limón rum
3 oz. passion fruit nectar, such as Looza
5 fresh or frozen raspberries

Squeeze lime wedge into a large shaker glass then drop in. Fill shaker with ice. Measure in Bacardi Limón rum and passion fruit nectar. Add raspberries. Shake vigorously and pour contents (with ice) into a tall drink glass.

Mary Subialka is the editor of Real Food and Drinks magazines, covering the flavorful world of food, wine, and spirits. She rarely meets a chicken she doesn’t like, and hopes that her son, who used to eat beets and Indian food as a preschooler, will one day again think of real food as more than something you need to eat before dessert and be inspired by his younger brother, who is now into trying new foods.