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Cuban Drink & Cocktail Recipes

A mojito on the Malecón, a cafecito at the ventanita, a daiquiri the way Hemingway ordered it and a cold guarapo from the cane press: Cuba’s drinks are as famous as its food.

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Cuba gave the world its most famous rum cocktails: the mojito, the daiquiri, the Cuba libre and the piña colada’s Cuban cousin. Off the bar menu there is café cubano, sweet espresso whipped with sugar, guarapo pressed from sugarcane and a cold bottle of malta. Every recipe below is written for a home bar or kitchen.

Classic Cuban mojito with mint and lime
Cuba’s Signature Cocktail

Mojito

White rum, fresh mint, lime, sugar and soda over ice, built the Havana way. The template for every rum cocktail that followed.

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Cuba libre rum and cola with lime
Cuba Libre
Rum, cola and a squeeze of lime, the three-ingredient classic with a story.
Classic Cuban daiquiri
Daiquiri
Rum, lime and sugar shaken cold, born in the mines of Daiquirí near Santiago.
Cuban coffee with espumita
Café Cubano
Stovetop espresso whipped with sugar into a sweet, foamy cafecito.
Hemingway daiquiri cocktail
Hemingway Daiquiri
The Papa Doble: double rum, grapefruit and maraschino, no sugar.
Passion fruit mojito
Maracuyá Mojito
The classic mojito brightened with fresh passion fruit pulp.
Cuban piña colada
Piña Colada
Rum, pineapple and coconut cream blended with ice.
El Presidente Cuban cocktail
El Presidente
Rum, dry vermouth, curaçao and grenadine, Havana’s 1920s cocktail.
Canchánchara honey and lime rum drink
Canchánchara
Aguardiente, honey and lime, the oldest Cuban cocktail, from Trinidad.
Glass of guarapo sugarcane juice
Guarapo
Fresh-pressed sugarcane juice over ice, sold from carts across the island.
Bottle of Cuban malta
Malta
Sweet, non-alcoholic malt soda, often mixed with condensed milk.

A Guide to Cuban Drinks

Cuban rum built the cocktail canon. The mojito came out of Havana’s bars, the daiquiri from the mines outside Santiago, and the Cuba libre from the years after independence; Hemingway ordered his daiquiri doubled and sugar-free at El Floridita. Away from the bar, the island runs on café cubano, espresso whipped with sugar into a foamy espumita and passed through the ventanita, plus fresh guarapo pressed from sugarcane and a cold malta for the kids.

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