Enjoy this simple rum drink with pineapple juice and cranberry anytime you crave a simple tropical cocktail. This rum-spiked tropical drink has all the basic parts of a classic Bay Breeze cocktail.  Just pour, shake, and strain over fresh ice for an easy tropical-tasting cocktail you can mix up in minutes.

Regular bay breeze cocktails are a quick mix of cranberry juice cocktail, pineapple juice, and vodka.  Here, we improve upon that mix even further by swapping the vodka for delicious and decadent dark spiced rum.  

Dark Rum adds depth and character to this bay breeze cocktail with rum

The rum, with hints of vanilla, raisin, and quiet warming spice, blends in seamlessly with pure pineapple juice, a dash of simple syrup, fresh lime juice, and cranberry juice.

Just a simple handful of ingredients makes an easy summer rum drink recipe with fruity tropical taste that you can shake up in the cocktail shaker, strain, and sip on hot summer days.  

I like to add a colorful garnish with lime slices and a maraschino cherry, but you can add a fresh slice of pineapple and a little umbrella to make it festive and fun, if desired.

If you love easy rum drinks that you can shake up and sip on the patio all summer, then keep this easy drink recipe handy!  

Shake up this easy summer rum drink in minutes and enjoy on warm weather weekends in July and August when a taste of the tropics will hit the spot.

Ingredients to Make a Rum Drink with Pineapple Juice and Cranberry

• ​Dark rum
• Fresh lime – cut into lime wedges for squeezing in
• Pure pineapple juice
• Cranberry juice
• Simple syrup
• Maraschino cherries – for garnish
• Thin lime slice for garnish

How to Make a Rum Drink with Pineapple Juice and Cranberry

• Fill a cocktail shaker about halfway with fresh ice.​
• Squeeze in the juice from 2 lime wedges and splash in the simple syrup.
• Next, splash in the dark rum, pineapple juice, and cranberry cocktail juice.
• Cover the cocktail shaker and shake well.  
• Shake for about 10 to 15 seconds or until drink is chilled through and pineapple juice has begun to build a foamy top layer over the drink.
• Use a cocktail strainer to strain the rum drink into a rocks glass or a tall glass over fresh ice.
• Garnish with a slice of lime (or a slice of pineapple) and a cherry. Enjoy very cold.

This easy rum drink with pineapple juice and cranberry boasts some of the tropical fruit juice flavors similar to a hurricane cocktail, so you can easily enjoy this festive rum drink in March for Mardi Gras. It’s similar to the flavors in this festive tropical Mardi Gras rum punch.

Make this fruity, tropical, and simple rum cocktail anytime you crave the flavors in a basic bay breeze cocktail.  In my opinion, the mixture of the dark rum flavor with the fruit juices really adds more depth and character than plain vodka does (which is what they use in the original recipe). 

This easy rum bay breeze recipe makes for a cool and satisfying summer rum cocktail that you can make with ingredients that you probably already have on hand.

Sip this simple fruity rum drink poolside or pour over fresh ice on hot summer nights to satisfy your taste for cool rum drinks this summer.

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