If you're the bartender for the night's festivities, showing your skills on making a raspberry daiquiri can impress even the toughest friend around. Raspberries are a delicious fruit, that combine well with lime juice and rum to make a raspberry daiquiri. Looking for the perfect raspberry daiquiri recipe? or do you just need a change from the ubiquitous strawberry version? A daiquiri can be a simple drink to make following these steps. Just gather the equipment and the ingredients and prepare to make a relaxing tasty sweet drink to be enjoyed by all.

For each raspberry daiquiri you'll need:

1. Combine first raspberries, lemon juice, and simple syrup ingredients in a blender.
2. Puree until smooth.
3. Strain raspberry mixture through a sieve into a bowl, and discard the seeds. Depending on the size of the seeds, a fine strainer may be needed.
4. Rinse out the blender to be sure no seeds remain.
5. Place the ice in the blender.
6. Top with strained raspberry puree, rum, and lime juice.
7. Process until smooth.
8. Garnish with lime wedge and raspberry.

1. Add a tablespoon of framboise or cassis with the rum.
2. Substitute blackberries for the raspberries.
3. Top with whipped cream, if desired.
4. Rim the glass with a combination of regular sugar (granualted white) and powdered sugar. Powdered sugar helps to keep the sugar secured to the glass.
5. Invest in a sturdy blender if you make frozen drinks often. In order to make the smoothest frozen drink, consider blending the ice until many of the chunks are gone before adding other ingredients.
6. As an alternate to the frozen drink, a daiquiri can be served on the rocks.