Frozen Non-Alcoholic Strawberry Daiquiri cocktail recipe

This Frozen Non-Alcoholic* Strawberry Daiquiri is an answer and a salute to that special summer heat. Using what the sunny season produces best, this blushing red and delightfully sweet non-alc treat is a little love song to the cream of the summer crop: strawberries.

The original Daiquiri, created in Cuba in the late 1800s, took on the same name as the beachside town where it was first made. In an evolving story, the rum-based drink went from being served over ice to being shaken and strained by Emilio Gonzalez at the Park Hotel in Havana. But it wasn’t until Ernest Hemingway fell for this Daiquiri at bar El Floridita that its popularity would spread to America, where it met the blender – and strawberries.

Even though the blender was invented in the early 1920s, the pivotal appliance wouldn’t make the big time for a few more decades. Jump to 1952 and Mabel Stegner’s cookbook Electric Blender Recipes to find possibly the first Frozen Strawberry Daiquiri recipe. Understandably a revelation, the cocktail has since taken on new fruits and flavours in its own iconic, stylish, slushie way.

For a twist on that OG recipe, this version uses non-alcoholic* white rum. Paired with the ripest strawberries, this frozen Daiquiri ticks all the boxes. 

Fresh ripe strawberries will be the best for flavour, but if you are longing for a taste of summer (outside of the season), frozen ones will work well, too. Just be sure to slightly reduce the ice to accommodate.

A perfect chance to play around with tropical fruits, try combining sweet mango, guava and coconut with tangy pineapple, passionfruit and dragon fruit. For a more subtle change-up, add softer fruity flavours by trading cranberry juice for your juice of choice. 

For more great non-alcoholic cocktails, try a Blood Orange Non-Alcoholic Spritz or Non-Alcoholic Grapefruit Julep, or check out our round-up of zero% recipes.