Watermelon Rum Cocktail

A guide on how to make the Watermelon Rum cocktail. A vibrant, juicy, sweet and sour cocktail.

Image Credit: Tales and Tails UK

Watermelon is popular fruit to have during summer. Weirdly, I personally don’t enjoy eating the fruit itself but I love watermelon-flavoured drinks and find it super refreshing!  

I made a watermelon syrup from scratch for this recipe to add sweetness and enhance the watermelon flavour. 

Check out the recipe below!

Image Credit: Tales and Tails UK

 Flavour profile: Juicy, fresh, sweet 

 Serves 2 

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of diced watermelon (deseeded) 

• 1 cup ice 

• ½ cup of white rum 

• ¼ cup of lime juice 

• ½ cup of pink lemonade

• Watermelon syrup (Pour according to desired sweetness) 

• Dash of grenadine syrup  

Method: 

Add all the ingredients into a blender  

Garnish: 

Watermelon sweets 

How to make watermelon syrup: 

Add 1 part sugar and 1 part water and boil in a pot  

Blend watermelon in a blender 

Once sugar has dissolved add the blended watermelon and simmer on medium heat for 10 mins 

Using a strainer net, remove pulp and pour syrup in to a bottle  

Allow syrup to cool completely before using