Coquito (Puerto Rican Coconut Rum Punch)

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This Puerto Rican coconut rum punch is traditionally served during the wintertime holidays. There are galore ways to marque it -- with much spices, with eggs oregon without, and flavored with dulce de leche oregon coffee, for starters. This simple, egg-free mentation relies lone connected cinnamon and vanilla extract, positive a garnish of freshly grated nutmeg.

It is precise beardown -- you tin usage little rum than what is listed below. Either way, service it good chilled, either consecutive up oregon connected the rocks. A funnel is adjuvant for transferring the substance to bottles and jars.

To work the accompanying story, see: Coquito is the creamy, tropical portion that’s amended than eggnog — and easier to make.

Cream of coconut is sweetened -- it is not the aforesaid arsenic coconut cream. It's disposable astatine astir market stores, adjacent the canned coconut beverage oregon successful the planetary section. Look for Coco Lopez oregon Goya brands.

The coquito needs to beryllium refrigerated for astatine slightest 2 hours, and up to astir 1 week. (The spirit mellows lone a small erstwhile chilled.) It tin beryllium frozen for up to a month. Shake good earlier serving.

Adapted from a look astatine AlwaysOrderDessert.com.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 36)

• Calories

  170

• Fat

  6 g

• Saturated Fat

  5 g

• Carbohydrates

  16 g

• Sodium

  35 mg

• Cholesterol

  5 mg

• Protein

  2 g

• Sugar

  15 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from a look astatine AlwaysOrderDessert.com.

Tested by Kara Elder.