Here I am sitting around on my summer vacation… eating too many good things and not exercising nearly enough. (Though I’m trying!) But at least I’m sucking down some skinny cocktails. This is kind of a silly “non-recipe” to share, but since I’m enjoying this as a refreshing summer beverage, and making drinky drinks with it too. I thought you might like to know about it: Skinny Ice Cocktails
Have you had the Sparkling Water ICE beverages yet? They come in all kinds of flavors, and they’re available in the sparkling water section of your market. FYI, they are sweetened with Splenda.
And by the way, the ICE people don’t know who the heck I am and they didn’t ask me to write a post about their product. Lucky for them, I just kinda love it!
How to make Skinny Ice Cocktails:
You’ll need the Coconut-Pineapple flavor for this recipe. This summer is the first time I’ve spotted this flavor, and now I’m completely obsessed with it!
To turn it into a cocktail, you’ll need some RUM too. I used Captain Morgan’s Spiced Rum, but I’m thinking coconut rum would be great with this flavor combo too.
Fill your tall glass with ice. Real ice.
Pour in your Sparkling Ice beverage (almost to the top).
Add a couple of glugs of spiced rum.
Garnish with mint leaves to make it all pretty, and that’s it! You’ve made skinny ice cocktails!
Enjoy! And HEY, experiment with some of the other flavors too: Pomegranate-Berry + Vodka sounds good to me. 🙂
P.S. On the Sparkling ICE website, they have some cocktail recipes too!
Here are a few more cocktail recipes you might like to try:
- Sparkling Pomegranate Cocktails
- Watermelon- Tequila Cocktails
- Pearl Harbor Cocktails
- Kentucky Peach Vodka Cocktail
- Sea Breeze Cocktail
- Hurricane Cocktail
- Painkiller Cocktail
- Paloma Cocktail
If you happen to be following the Weight Watchers WW plan, you’ll find a link to the WW Points on the recipe card below.
Skinny Ice Cocktails
Ingredients
- One 17-ounce bottle Coconut- Pineapple Sparkling ICE beverage
- 2 ounces (2 shots) spiced rum or coconut rum
- 2 glasses filled with ice cubes
- mint leaves for garnish, if desired
Instructions
- Fill each glass of ice almost to the top with the coconut-pineapple ICE. Add a shot of rum to each (or more).
- Garnish with mint leaves, if desired. Drink!
Notes
- Try adding rum or vodka to some of the other flavors of sparkling ICE beverages.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
How refreshing! This is much needed today – mid week holidays suck since you’re stuck in the office for another 2 days until the weekend hits. Ugh.
We use the pink grapefruit flavor and mix it with vodka. Yum. I haven’t tried the coconut-pineapple flavor but will order some from Amazon since I can’t find it in my area.
YUM, looks great. Happy 4th!
I haven’t seen these Sparkling Ice beverage in stores. There is nothing like travelling and eating, enjoy your vacation!
Bethenny of SkinnyGirl better watch out – you’ve got the next best idea! Love the sounds of the Coconut- Pineapple flavor!
it’s not just the calories. I plugged it in my calculator and got 0 pts for 1 ounce of Original Captain Morgans Spiced Rum. Woo-Hoo!
Wish you were here drinking with us! Your San Diego friends miss you :-((
I know, surprising – but it has to do with the sugar/carbs – 🙁
one jigger of rum is 4 pts. on WW points plus
Really?? That’s shocking since it’s only 120 cals. A jigger is 1.5 ounces, & I’ve used 2 here. So an FYI to the WW folks.
I don’t know about the points but it looks pretty wicked to me? And yummy,.