Piña Ghouladas Recipes

PIñA "GHOUL"ADAS

Steps:

• In shallow bowl or small plate, mix corn syrup and food color. Dip rims of chilled stemmed glasses, one at a time, into corn syrup mixture. Place glasses in freezer.
• In pitcher, stir pineapple juice, rum, cream of coconut, orange juice and half-and-half until blended. Serve over ice in chilled glasses.

PINA GHOULADA

Steps:

• Pour the corn syrup into a shallow bowl.
• Dip a toothpick into the red food coloring, and stir a very small amount of the food coloring into the corn syrup; stir until it looks like blood.
• Hold one glass by the stem, and dip the rim of the glass into the red syrup and turn the glass to coat the entire rim.
• Turn glass upright. Allow the syrup to drip down the sides of the glass (to resemble dripping blood). Dip the remaining glass in the same manner. Set the glasses aside.
• To make the pina colada mix, whisk together the pineapple juice, cream of coconut, cream, orange juice and rum (if using).
• Place about 2 to 2 1/2 cups of ice cubes in a blender, and add 1 cup of the drink mixture. Blend until smooth. Add more pineapple juice (not more pina colada mix) if mixture is too thick.
• Carefully pour the pina colada mix into the cocktail glasses, being careful not to disrupt the "bloody" red rims.
• Repeat with remaining drink mixture and ice.

PINA COLADA LUSH

Steps:

• Combine the graham cracker crumbs, butter and brown sugar in a large bowl. Press onto the bottom and up sides of a greased 13x9-in. baking dish., In a second bowl, beat together cream cheese, pineapple and confectioners' sugar. Stir in vanilla extract; spread into crust. , In same bowl, whisk together milk and pudding mix until thickened, about 2 minutes. Fold in 1 cup whipped topping; spread pudding mixture over the cream cheese mixture. Top with remaining whipped topping. , Sprinkle with toasted coconut. Refrigerate, covered, until set, about 3 hours. If desired, garnish with cherries.