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Skinny Daiquiri

Rum and Cordial Craft Zero-Sugar Lime Cordial are all the base recipe needs. Shake the two pours hard, double strain into a cold glass, and serve it immediately. The simplicity is the point: there is no separate lime juice or simple syrup to hide behind.

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Rum Daiquiri Shaken About 5 minutes

Recipe by Austin Davis · Published · Updated

The Spec

How to make the Skinny Daiquiri.

A daiquiri is unforgiving in the best way. With only rum and Cordial Craft in the shaker, spirit choice, temperature, and dilution are easy to taste.

Ingredients

  • 2 oz rum of choice
  • 1 oz Cordial Craft Zero-Sugar Lime Cordial
  • Fresh ice
  • Lime wheel for garnish
Pictured variation: The photographed drink uses Planteray Cut & Dry Coconut Rum with coconut shavings and lime.

Method

  1. Add the ingredients. Pour the rum and Cordial Craft into a shaker with ice.
  2. Shake hard. Shake for 10–15 seconds, until thoroughly chilled.
  3. Double strain. Strain through both a cocktail strainer and a fine strainer into a chilled coupe or Nick and Nora glass.
  4. Garnish. Finish with a lime wheel.
Serve it promptly: An up daiquiri has no fresh ice in the glass to hold the temperature after it is poured.
Why It Works

A simple daiquiri puts the rum and balance in plain view.

Cordial Craft brings the lime, acidity, sweetness, and body in one measure, but it does not make every rum taste the same. A lighter rum keeps the drink brisk; an aged rum brings more depth; a coconut rum moves it toward dessert. The 2:1 ratio gives each one a familiar starting point.

Rum Let the spirit decide the direction.

The cordial establishes the structure while the chosen rum controls aroma, weight, and finish.

Shake Dilution is part of the recipe.

A hard 10–15 second shake keeps the two-pour spec from tasting warm or overly sharp.

Serve Use a cold glass and move quickly.

The drink is served up, so its best temperature begins fading as soon as it leaves the shaker.

Bartender Notes

There is nowhere for careless technique to hide.

The short ingredient list makes each decision more obvious, from the rum in the bottle to the ice in the shaker.

Rum

Choose the bottle intentionally.

White rum keeps the drink lean and direct. Aged rum adds barrel character. Coconut rum creates a richer variation and should be treated as a different expression of the recipe.

Temperature

Chill the serving glass first.

Use a freezer-cold coupe or fill the glass with ice water while you shake, then empty and dry it before straining.

Strain

Double strain the finished drink.

The fine strain removes small ice fragments and gives the daiquiri the smooth surface expected from a short up serve.

Service Batch

Batch the two-pour base, then shake each drink.

Rum and Cordial Craft can be combined and chilled before service. Keep the final shake and double strain in the workflow so the daiquiri still arrives cold, diluted, and properly textured.

8 servings 24 oz chilled base 3 oz per drink
Before You Serve

Ingredient and garnish note.

The core recipe is deliberately spare, but flavored rum and decorative garnishes can introduce additional ingredients that are not present in the plain-rum build.

Recipe author: Austin Davis Yield: 1 cocktail Total time: about 5 minutes
Recipe FAQ

Questions before you shake it.

The decisions that change a two-pour daiquiri most noticeably.

What rum works best?

Use the rum you want to taste. White rum makes the leanest house version, aged rum adds depth, and coconut rum creates a richer variation like the one pictured.

Why is it called a Skinny Daiquiri?

The recipe uses Cordial Craft Zero-Sugar Lime Cordial instead of separate lime juice and sugar syrup. The rum still contains alcohol and calories, so “skinny” does not mean calorie-free.

Can I serve it over ice?

Yes, though the house version is served up. Pouring it over fresh ice makes the drink last longer but changes the dilution and presentation.

Can I batch it?

Batch and chill the rum-and-cordial base, then shake and double strain each serving. That preserves the temperature and texture of the individual recipe.

Make the Skinny Daiquiri

Two measured pours leave the rum nowhere to disappear.

Choose the bottle, use the full shake, and serve the drink cold. Cordial Craft keeps the lime-and-sweet structure consistent while the rum remains the point of the cocktail.

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