The Perfect Rum Punch Recipe

LuLu’s Rum Punch
Excerpted from LuLu’s Kitchen: A Taste of The Gulf Coast Good Life (Grand Central Life & Style; April 2016) by Lucy Buffett

Makes: 1 drink

Ingredients
1 ounce Captain Morgan ® Original spiced rum
½ ounce Myer’s ® dark rum
½ ounce coconut rum
2 ounces sour mix
1 ounce pineapple juice
1 ounce cranberry juice
Splash of grenadine, optional
Cherry and fresh tropical fruit to garnish

1. Fill a tall glass with ice.
2. Add spiced rum, dark rum, coconut rum and sour mix to glass.
3. Add equal portions of pineapple and cranberry juice.
4. Add a splash of grenadine if you like it a little sweeter.
5. Stir well.
6. Garnish with a cherry and fresh tropical fruit, such as orange, lemon or lime slices, or pineapple wedge.

Excerpted from LuLu’s Kitchen: A Taste of The Gulf Coast Good Life by Lucy Buffett (Grand Central Life & Style; April 26, 2016) Recipe photo credit: Sara Essex

Lucy Buffett is a restaurateur of the award-winning, fun-loving LuLu’s which serves more than one million guests a year at two locations, one in Gulf Shores, Alabama and the other in Destin, Florida. Lucy has also been recognized for her tireless work on behalf of sustainability and the environment. However, the greatest passion of this self-proclaimed gypsy rebel and reluctant entrepreneur is cooking good food for the people she loves. LuLu’s Kitchen: A Taste of the Gulf Coast Good Life (formerly Crazy Sista Cooking) is her first cookbook and is full of recipes and stories that made her restaurant the famous destination it is today. You can find more information on Lucy at www.LucyBuffett.com and you can follow her on Facebook and Twitter.