8 Banana Rum Drinks to Sip for an Instant Vacation

Not so nuts for coconuts but absolutely mad for bananas? Welcome, banana fan, to the world of banana rum drinks. Pick a drink, get packing, and relocate to a world of banana rum cocktails.

Fruit flavors and some flavored club soda are all it takes to go from a blah day to a great day. But you'll need this banana rum cocktail to get there. What a sacrifice.

Ingredients

• 2 ounces banana rum
• 3 ounces pineapple juice
• 1 ounce freshly squeezed orange juice
• ¾ ounce grenadine
• ¾ ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice
• Ice
• Vanilla club soda to top off
• Pineapple wedge and cherry for garnish

Instructions

1. In a cocktail shaker, add ice, banana rum, pineapple juice, orange juice, grenadine, and lemon juice.
2. Shake to chill.
3. Strain into a hurricane glass over fresh ice.
4. Top off with vanilla club soda.
5. Garnish with a pineapple wedge and cherry, piercing them together with a cocktail skewer.

Your usual rum punch gets a banana bunch of upgrades. Okay, so it's heavy on the banana, and lighter on the usual rum suspects, but aren't we here to embrace a life of bananas? Yeah, we are.

Ingredients

• 1½ ounces banana rum
• 2 ounces pineapple juice
• 1 ounce freshly squeezed lime juice
• 1 ounce freshly squeezed orange juice
• ¾ ounce banana liqueur
• ½ ounce cranberry juice
• ½ ounce orgeat
• ½ ounce grenadine
• Ice
• Mint sprig for garnish

Instructions

1. In a cocktail shaker, add ice, banana rum, pineapple juice, cranberry juice, lime juice, orange juice, banana liqueur, orgeat, and grenadine.
2. Shake to chill.
3. Strain into a highball glass over fresh ice.
4. Garnish with a mint sprig.

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to marry gold rum with banana rum for a banana rum cocktail that'll make you a morning person. Well, maybe wait until after twelve noon to indulge.

Ingredients

• 1½ ounces banana rum
• ¾ ounce coconut rum
• 2 ounces pineapple juice
• 2 ounces cranberry juice
• ¾ ounce freshly squeezed lime juice
• Ice
• Pineapple wedge, kiwi slice, cherry, and orange wedge for garnish

Instructions

1. In a cocktail shaker, add ice, banana rum, coconut rum, pineapple juice, cranberry juice, and lime juice.
2. Shake to chill.
3. Strain into a hurricane glass over fresh ice.
4. Garnish with a pineapple wedge, kiwi slice, cherry, and orange wedge pierced on a single cocktail skewer. And a cocktail umbrella, if the mood suits you.

There are a few avenues to the destination known as a banana daiquiri. One option is to use banana rum instead of light rum, another is to use equal parts rum and banana liqueur. What matters most is what you want. Now carry that energy into your everyday life.

Ingredients

• 2 ounces banana rum
• ¾ ounce freshly squeezed lime juice
• ½ ounce demerara simple syrup
• Ice
• Cherry for garnish

Instructions

1. Chill a coupe glass.
2. In a cocktail shaker, add ice, banana rum, lime juice, and demerara syrup.
3. Shake to chill.
4. Strain into the chilled glass.
5. Garnish with a cherry.

If you like piña coladas...and climbing banana trees...if you're not into togas...if you have have to obtain...a tasty banana drink, then call up this recipe. Don't write, it'll take too long.

Ingredients

• 2 ounces banana cream rum
• 2 ounces cream of coconut
• 1½ ounces pineapple juice
• ¾ ounce freshly squeezed lime juice
• Ice
• Pineapple wedge for garnish, if desired

Instructions

1. In a cocktail shaker, add ice, banana cream rum, cream of coconut, pineapple juice, and lime juice.
2. Shake to chill.
3. Strain into a hurricane glass over fresh ice.
4. Garnish with a pineapple wedge, if desired.

This one's like another "on-the-beach" cocktail, but with a signature banana flavor and rum instead of vodka. Honestly, this will soon take the throne as the superior on-the-beach cocktail.

Ingredients

• 1½ ounces banana rum
• ½ ounce peach schnapps
• ½ ounce raspberry liqueur
• 1½ ounces orange juice
• 1½ ounces cranberry juice
• ¼ ounce banana liqueur
• Ice
• Pineapple wedge and lemon wedge for garnish

Instructions

1. In a cocktail shaker, add ice, banana rum, peach schnapps, raspberry liqueur, orange juice, cranberry juice, and banana liqueur.
2. Shake to chill.
3. Strain into a highball glass over fresh ice.
4. Garnish with a pineapple wedge and lemon wedge.

Traditional banana rum might be a little too sweet to slide into the classic old-fashioned recipe, but a few modifications and this drink knocks it out of the park.

Ingredients

• 1 ounce gold rum
• ½ ounce banana rum
• ½ ounce simple syrup
• 2-3 dashes orange bitters
• 1-2 dashes aromatic bitters
• Ice
• Orange slice and cherry for garnish

Instructions

1. In a mixing glass, add ice, gold rum, banana rum, simple syrup, orange bitters, and aromatic bitters.
2. Stir rapidly to chill.
3. Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice.
4. Garnish with an orange slice and cherry, skewering one side of the orange slice, then the cherry, then the other side of the orange slice.

Part dirty banana, part mudslide, and a little bit of a sundae all mixed together create an unforgettable, creamy banana rum dessert cocktail that'll steal your heart.

Ingredients

• 1½ ounces banana cream rum
• ¾ ounce coffee liqueur
• ½ ounce chocolate liqueur
• 2 ounces heavy cream
• Ice
• Orange slice, banana slice, and cherry for garnish

Instructions

1. In a cocktail shaker, add ice, banana cream rum, coffee liqueur, chocolate liqueur, and heavy cream.
2. Shake to chill.
3. Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice.
4. Garnish with an orange slice, banana slice, and cherry all pierced on a single cocktail skewer.

Don't stress about getting your banana fill with hastily baked banana bread, made with way-too-ripe bananas and the guilt of letting the bananas get too ripe. Live the banana life with banana rum cocktails. No guilt, all the flavor.