This homemade Lemon Lime Rum Collins recipe combines the soft sweet taste of light rum with fresh lemon-lime flavor and invigorating rum-infused cucumbers. These delicious cocktails make a refreshing addition to your happy hour.
I was looking through recipes to find a classic cocktail when I came upon a tom collins recipe. I love a good rum collins cocktail, but I was hoping for something with a little more intensity.
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❤️ Why I Love This Recipe
There is something revitalizing about the taste of fresh lemon juice mixed with the bitter notes of lime. By adding a homemade Lemon-Limeade and soaked white rum-infused English cucumbers this traditional choice is turned into exhilaratingly amazing cocktails.
✔️ This flavor-loaded rum collins recipe is a party favorite! Bonus tip: Make these ahead of time to enjoy when you're getting ready!
✔️ These are great cocktails to keep you energized after a hot summer's day!
✔️ This is one of my favorite cocktail recipes to have during the winter because it's packed with vitamin c!
🥘 Ingredients
Fresh lemons and limes have a crisp taste making a better choice than store-bought juice.
Any white granulated sugar will work for most drink recipes.
A large cucumber, but I recommended buying two so you can make extra soaked cucumbers!
A white rum like Bacardi Superior or Captain Morgan's makes a great base spirit for this beverage!
This homemade Lemon-Limeade recipe adds a tasty twist to this collins recipe.
Lemon-Lime Seltzer water
🔪 Instructions
TO MAKE THE LIMEADE:
- Bring the water and sugar to an almost boil. Remove from heat.
- Add citrus the juice and 3 cups of cold water.
- Set aside to cool.
TO MAKE THE SOAKED CUCUMBERS:
- Place cucumber slices in a shallow bowl.
- Pour 1 ounce of white rum over the cucumbers.
- Let soak for at least 30 minutes.
- Remove cucumber to an airtight container.
TO MAKE THE RUM COLLINS
- In a cocktail shaker add the ice cubes, white rum, lemon-limeade, and soaked cucumber slices.
- Cover and shake 6-7 times.
- Pour into tall Collins glass and garnish with cucumbers or a slice of lemon.
- Store any unused lime-ade in the refrigerator.
🙋 Recipe FAQ's
When using a shaker add ice and ingredient. Make sure the lid is on tight and vigorously shake the contents for at least 10 seconds and then strain into a glass. When using a spoon, put the back of the spoon up against the edge of the glass, shaker, or pitcher. Stir gently with a spoon for a minute or two to mix ingredients and chill.
According to Wikipedia, mixed drinks contain two or more simple ingredients, like mixing soda water to dry gin. However, a cocktail is a type of alcoholic mixed drink. Cocktails are generally a combination of spirits and other ingredients, like a splash of simple syrup.
Club soda and lemon-lime soda make great alternatives.
💭 Tips
- Only soak the cucumbers for 30 minutes or they will become soggy.
- Make sure the lemon limeade mixture is completely cooled before adding it to the shaker or the ice will melt resulting in a watery beverage.
📖 Variations
- Make this a virgin cherry lemon limeade by adding maraschino cherry juice in place of the rum and garnishing with a cocktail cherry.
- Add fresh orange juice and garnish with an orange slice for an extra citrusy cocktail.
- Try adding ginger ale or ginger beer for a more robust beverage.
🍽 Equipment
- Cutting board to slice the produce on.
- Paring Knife for cutting the lemons, limes, and cucumber.
- Hand juicer to juice the citrus.
- Measuring cup for the liquid ingredients.
- Dry measuring cup to measure the sugar.
- Small saucepan to make the lemon limeade.
- Wooden spoon to stir the sugar and incorporate the citrus juice.
- Shallow bowl to soak the cucumbers.
- Standard shot glass to measure the liquor.
- Cocktail shaker to mix the ingredients.
- Highball glass to hold the beverage.
Serving Suggestions
Try this beverage frozen! Just get a blender, make sure to add plenty of ice, and blend well!
Add a little sugar to the rim of the glass for a sweet surprise!
If you want to make lemon lime rum collins recipe a little sweeter, just add a few ounces of club soda and an ounce of simple syrup!
Storage
Store lemon limeade in a covered container, refrigerated for up to 7 days,
Soaked cucumbers can be stored in a ziplock bag in the refrigerator for up to 2 days.
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📖 Recipe
Lemon Lime Rum Collins Recipe
Ingredients
FOR THE LEMON LIMEADE
- ½ cup lemon juice , freshly squeezed
- ½ cup lime juice , freshly squeezed
- 1 cup water , divided
- ½ cup granulated sugar
FOR THE CUCUMBERS
- ½ cup sliced cucumbers
- 1½ ounce white rum
FOR THE LEMON LIME RUM COLLINS RECIPE
- ¾ cup white rum , 1½ ounce per serving
- 2 cups lemon limeade , ½ cup per serving
- ½ cup lemon lime seltzer water , 1 tablespoon per serving
Instructions
FOR THE LEMON LIMEADE
- In a medium sized saucepan over high heat, bring 1 cup of the water and granulated sugar to a boil. Remove from the heat.
- Add the remaining water. Set aside to cool.
FOR THE CUCUMBERS
- Lay slices of cucumber in a bowl and pour the white rum over cucumbers. Allow to soak for up to 30 minutes.
FOR THE LEMON LIME RUM COLLINS RECIPE
- Place 1 cup of ice in a cocktail shaker. Add 1½ ounces white rum, 4 ounces lemon limeade, and top it off with 2 tablespoons seltzer water. Shake for 30 seconds or until shaker is frosty
- Place 2-3 slices cucumber in the tall collins glass. Pour the lemon lime rum collins into the collins glass with the cucumbers..
Matt @ Plating Pixels
Love all these fresh summer flavors! Is it 5 yet so I can make one of these?!
Derek @ Dad With A Pan
This definitely looks like its worth the trouble of juicing all those lemon and limes!
Kim @ Three Olives Branch
Oooh, this looks so fresh! I love citrus based cocktails, I can't wait to try it!
Ronda J Eagle
I love cucumber infused water it's so refreshing and makes my filtered water feel like I'm at the spa! Add rum and now you're talking my language. I'm totally trying this out over the summer.
Claire | Sprinkles and Sprouts
I am loving this!!!!! Cucumber and lime work so wonderfully together. How unique to infuse the rum with cucumber!!! FAB IDEA!
We have a wonderful lemon tree so I love cocktails that take advantage of that 🙂
YUM!