Peach Daiquiri (Shaken or Frozen)

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Kick back this summer with a fresh peach daiquiri! This classic rum cocktail gets a fruity twist with the addition of real peach purée. You can prepare it as a shaken cocktail as daiquiris are traditionally made or turn it into a frozen tropical drink like you'd enjoy at a five-star beach resort — your choice. No matter how you sip it, you're in for a peachy treat.

A peach daiquiri on a wooden surface with a box full of peaches behind it and orange flowers to both sides.

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Why You’ll Love This Recipe
Ingredients
Step-by-Step Instructions
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Variations
Expert Tips
Perfect Pairing
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Why You’ll Love This Recipe

Made with real, fresh ingredients: No pre-made, store-bought purées here. We make our own peach purée from juicy, ripe peaches to give us the absolute best daiquiri recipe. You just can't beat fresh fruit. Peach lovers will swoon over this refreshing cocktail.

Customize the preparation method to your preference: Contrary to popular belief, daiquiris are not traditionally frozen drinks. A classic daiquiri recipe features white rum, fresh lime juice and simple syrup that are shaken together with ice and served straight up. To cocktail purists, this is the only way to serve a proper daiquiri.

However, many resorts have popularized the frozen daiquiri. Even if a frozen peach daiquiri isn't traditional, it's still tasty and fun to sip, so I’m bringing you both options in one recipe.

Easily batch this recipe for a party: Whether you prepare this daiquiri shaken or frozen, we’ll chat about how to scale up this recipe to make summer entertaining as easy as can be. After all, you have drinks to sip and good company to enjoy.

Related: For more rum cocktail ideas, try my raspberry daiquiri, rum sour and strawberry mojito!

Ingredients

Fresh peach purée: Fresh summer peaches are best. That said, sometimes you start picking through the peaches at the store and find they’re all hard. In that case, you can make your fruit purée with thawed frozen peaches, which go into the freezer at peak ripeness. Of course, for the frozen daiquiri, we’ll swap the purée for frozen peaches.

White rum: Like the mojito, a daiquiri is prepared with white rum, not dark rum. Save the dark rum for my favorite Barbados rum punch. You're welcome to use your choice of rum, but this list of best white rums may come in handy.

Lime juice: For the highest-quality daiquiri, you must use freshly squeezed lime juice. The bottled juice is no good here. It tastes noticeably duller. Take a few extra seconds to squeeze some juice for the best flavor.

Simple syrup: This is our sweetener. While you can buy it, I prefer to make my own. Simply bring 1 cup water and 1 cup sugar to a boil over medium-high heat in a small saucepan, stirring to dissolve the sugar. Once it boils, allow it to cool and then store it in an airtight container in the refrigerator for several weeks.

Ice: Cubed ice is pictured for the shaken drink, but I highly recommend using crushed ice if you choose to make the frozen version. Crushed ice blends much more easily.

Step-by-Step Instructions

Shaken Method

Step 1: Let’s grab our cocktail shaker and add the fresh peach purée, white rum, lime juice, simple syrup and plenty of ice (photo 1).

Pouring the peach purée from a shot glass into a crystal cocktail shaker with orange flowers to the side.

Step 2: Now we shake it vigorously for about 30 seconds (photo 2).

Holding a crystal cocktail shaker with two hands to vigorously shake the drink with ice cubes.

Step 3: All that’s left is to strain our shaken daiquiri into a chilled martini or coupe glass (photo 3). If desired, garnish with a fresh peach slice on the rim of the glass for a fun touch. It doesn’t get easier than that.

Straining the drink from a cocktail shaker into a martini glass on a white wooden board with peaches in the background.

Frozen Method

Step 1: Instead of a cocktail shaker, we grab our blender and add frozen peaches, crushed ice, white rum, lime juice and simple syrup (photo 4).

The frozen ingredients in a blender on a white wooden surface before processing until smooth.

Step 2: From here, we give the blender and whirl and let it process the ingredients until it becomes nice and smooth like so (photo 5).

The frozen ingredients in a blender after they've been processed and are now nice and creamy.

Step 3: Now we pour that icy mixture into our cocktail glass and enjoy every refreshing sip of these fresh peach daiquiris.

Pouring the frozen drink from the blender into a martini glass on a white wooden surface.

Recipe FAQs

When are peaches ripe?

Pick a peach when it turns a reddish-yellow color with no green. You’ll also notice a delightful fragrance coming off the fruit. Most importantly, make sure you also gently press into the peach with your fingers to ensure it has some give.

What’s the easiest way to peel peaches?

If you’re making a small batch of daiquiris, you’ll only need a few peaches. In that case, you can simply use a sharp vegetable peeler.

But for especially large batches, you may find blanching peaches is more efficient. To remove the peach skin through blanching, add peaches to boiling water for 45 seconds and then use tongs to place them in an ice bath for about a minute. Cut into the peach and use your fingers to remove the peel.

How do you make fresh peach purée?

Take those peeled peaches, remove the seed and add the fruit to a blender with a splash of water and give it a whirl until the mixture turns velvety and smooth. You could even use a food processor if you’d like.

To make ahead, mix the purée with a little fresh lime or lemon juice and store it in an airtight container in the refrigerator for three to four days. The citrus juice is crucial to prevent the peach purée from oxidizing and turning brownish. You can also freeze it and thaw before using.

Can you make a virgin peach daiquiri?

Absolutely. Simply leave out the light rum and replace with water or peach nectar. You still want the extra liquid to help properly blend the drink.

Can you make a pitcher of peach daiquiris?

For a frozen daiquiri, simply scale up the ingredients for the number of servings and blend together. The number of servings you can make at one time depends on the size and power of your blender, so use your best judgment here.

For a shaken daiquiri, stir together the ingredients in a pitcher and refrigerate the mixture for up to a day. When it’s serving time, stir the pitcher well, pour 6 ounces per drink into a cocktail shaker with ice and shake like we reviewed earlier. Shaking the drink provides the necessary aeration and dilution.

Variations

Give it a spice kick. Peach and ginger pair beautifully together. Rather than plain simple syrup, try my fresh ginger simple syrup for a touch of warmth.

Use your favorite fruit. You can use these same proportions and switch out the peaches for, say, mango.

Swap another liquor. It’s not truly a daiquiri unless you use white rum, but if you’re not a fan, you can certainly use vodka or tequila.

Looking down on a peach daiquiri with a bundle of orange flowers to the side and a few single flower buds to the left.

Expert Tips

Give your frozen drink a few minutes to sit before serving: After blending, you’ll notice it’s a bit thick to drink — you almost need a spoon. After a few minutes of sitting at room temperature, the daiquiri will melt just a bit to give you a drinkable consistency.

Make sure your lime is ripe: Select bright green limes that give in when you press into them, similar to how we check for peaches. This ensures the lime is plenty juicy.

Chill your glasses: For both a shaken and frozen daiquiri, you’ll enjoy a chilled glass. My favorite method is to place the serving glass in the freezer for 15 to 30 minutes. Alternatively, you can fill the glass with ice water as you start to mix the drink. When you’re ready to serve, stir the water and ice for 30 seconds and then dump the contents. This works well when you forget to freeze your glass.

Expect to use one peach for each shaken drink: Of course, the exact amount of purée for each peach varies from one fruit to another, but most peaches should give you about 2 ounces of purée.

Crush your own ice: If you don't have an ice machine to make crushed ice, you can crush it yourself. Place ice cubes in a sealable bag and smash it with a rolling pin or meat mallet.

Perfect Pairing

Of course, a peach daiquiri calls for a tropical meal. Pair this drink with my jerk chicken or jerk pork, and you’ll feel like you’re on a beach vacation right in your backyard.

You may also want to play up the peach flavor. In that case, my grilled peach and pesto pizza makes a lovely savory option, or try it with my peach clafoutis for dessert.

Peach season isn’t complete without whipping up this fruity daiquiri. You will love every delightful sip.

Cheers!

Two peach daiquiris on a white wooden board surrounded by fresh peaches and orange flowers.

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