Kenny’s Cooler Recipe

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This Kenny’s Cooler Recipe is an easy copycat recipe for the refreshing Texas Roadhouse cocktail. This tropical summer cocktail is made with coconut Malibu rum, lemonade and blue curaçao.

Rum cocktails — especially ones made with coconut rum — make delicious tropical summer drinks. For other cocktails made with Malibu, try this Blue Hurricane Drink, this Piña Colada Recipe or this Mango Tango Drink. 

Malibu also makes some tasty shots & shooters, such as these Malibu Rum Shooters or this Barbie Shot. 

For some other copycat restaurant drinks, try this Chili’s Blackberry Margarita, or this Olive Garden Margarita.

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• Why You’ll Love This Recipe
• Ingredients & Substitutions
• How To Make A Texas Roadhouse Kenny’s Cooler
• Expert Tips
• Recipe FAQs
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Why You’ll Love This Recipe

• Refreshing & Tropical — The combination of coconut rum, lemonade and blue curaçao with a dash of peach schnapps is ridiculously delicious. 
• Easy Copycat — You don’t need to spend money to have this cocktail at Texas Roadhouse. You can easily make a batch to sip on at home by your pool for a fraction of the cost. 
• Big Batch — This is a great recipe that works well as a big batch cocktail. It’s easy to make a pitcher the next time you have some friends over.

Ingredients & Substitutions

• Malibu: Malibu gives this drink its coconut flavor. You can use another type of coconut rum as a replacement. Or, you can use white rum with a dash of coconut syrup. If you don’t have Malibu or coconut syrup, you can use just regular white rum, and it will still taste good, but there won’t be the same coconut flavor. 
• Lemonade: If you have the time, homemade lemonade will make this cocktail taste especially good. However, a high quality store bought lemonade works just as well and saves a lot of time when you are making a batch of these drinks. 
• Peach Schnapps: A dash of peach schnapps gives this drink a subtle hint of peach. As a substitute, you can use Peach Simple Syrup (use only ¼ ounce to ½ ounce of syrup per serving). 
• Blue Curaçao: You can use either an alcoholic or non-alcoholic blue curaçao syrup. Blue curaçao gives this drink its classic bright blue color. 
• Sweet and Sour Mix: Sweet and sour mix is used in many cocktail recipes. You can sometimes find sweet and sour mix pre-made in the store, but it is easy and much less expensive to make your own at home from lemons, limes, sugar and water (see FAQ section below).

How To Make A Texas Roadhouse Kenny’s Cooler

Step 1: Add the lemonade, Malibu, Peach Schnapps, blue curaçao and sweet and sour mix to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. 

Step 2: Shake well and strain into a cocktail glass filled with ice. Add a cherry and orange slice for garnish.

Expert Tips

• Make it a pitcher. This drink works really well as a pitcher drink. Multiply the quantities by 2 to 4 times (depending on the size of your pitcher), and mix everything together in a pitcher. You can either add ice to the pitcher, or chill the pitcher for a couple hours in the fridge before serving. 
• Make it a mocktail. For a mocktail version of this drink, leave out the rum and peach schnapps. Instead, use ½ ounce of coconut syrup and ¼ ounce of Peach Simple Syrup. Make sure to use a non-alcoholic blue curaçao. If you find it too sweet or want a bit of fizz, you can top the drink with club soda.
• Make it a slushie. This Kenny’s Cooler tastes really good as a frozen drink! Blend the ingredients together with a handful of ice until you have a slushie consistency. Even better, if you have time, freeze the lemonade into ice cubes and use those to blend the drink with instead of water.

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