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Today we make a frozen blended cocktail called the Miami Nice. This drink was created by Emilio and Miguel Solache at the Beehive in San Francisco. Now two big things here separate this from the traditional Miami Vice. First, we're swapping out that strawberry for guava. And second, it's just one drink. We're not doing two separate blended drinks served together like the standard Miami Vice, which is of course a piña colada and a strawberry daiquiri. I've covered that a couple times, most recently in the new Ninja Slushy machine. Now recently I shared a drink here called Ohana, and that called for a guava puree. And I discussed for several minutes. How difficult it is to find a high quality guava puree. And in that video, I used a higher quality, harder to find guava puree than another version, which I used a much easier to find guava syrup. And obviously the sugar levels are different between a syrup and a puree. And the flavors are as well, which means you can't just swap them out for each other. But today's recipe is unique because it calls for a coconut cream, which I'm 99.9% sure they mean in cream of coconut and a guava puree. But what you can do at home is if you have a guava syrup and not a puree, you can swap out the cream of coconut for coconut milk. So you're reducing the sugar from the coconut and you're swapping out that guava puree for a guava syrup, which has more sugar, obviously. Now more sugar from the guava and less from the coconut, it's not completely equal for flavor or texture, but it's pretty close in sugar. So if you don't have an unsweetened guava puree or mine, which is like lightly sweetened, then there's an alternative that you can do. And I'll have both recipes in the description below. So let's go ahead and make the Miami Miami Nice, which is blended, of course. I'm going to start with half an ounce of lime juice, half an ounce of allspice dram, three quarter ounces of guava puree, one and a half ounces of a cream of coconut. This recipe calls for a Santa Teresa 1796 rum and it calls for one and a half ounces. And the last thing I'm going to do here, which is optional, is put in an eighth of a teaspoon of xanthan gum. That's xanthan gum, not xanthum gum. And that's going to keep the drink incorporated so it doesn't separate as it sits out over time. Try it. Cheers. I think more people need to know about this. I think more people need to make this. The guava is subtle. I was worried about a half an ounce allspice dram with everything else in here. It's subtle too. Cream of coconut is subtle. There's a nice like just the right amount of acidity without being Too acidic in a frozen creamy drink. Sometimes I think nowadays people want to acid adjust to match lime every single time you're making a drink like this. But sometimes just like a little bump of acidity without getting to a full ounce of lime juice, for instance, or a full ounce of an acid adjusted pineapple juice. It just gives a nice, helps it be a little more well-rounded and not just super sweet. But the guava in this drink is delicious without being too much guava. Not that that's even possible. Guava has a lot of similarities, I think, between strawberries, so that that flavor makes sense in a riff on a Miami Vice. It's what's so intriguing, it's not a pina colada, it's not a strawberry daiquiri, but it's not just like a guava version of those things. There's something that's really exceptional about the Miami Nice. Seriously though, this is so good, and if I had a list of my favorite Blended frozen drinks. This is one of the top, this is like a top three for sure. Not that there's like a number one or two right now, but this is like for sure in the top five. I think it's one of the top three. It's delicious. It just, it, it goes against what we associate with blended frozen drinks that you get a resort, which is like that super sweet, instant stomach ache you get. And this just, it just works. The guava with the coconut. Allspice. We know guava and coconut work together so well because those are the drinks, the Ohana. The Leilani Volcano, that's an excellent combination. This is just like, to another level and different and it's that allspice jam. It's uh, it's delicious and it's something you should make. If you can get that uh, that Oregon Fruit Co. guava puree, I think it's really good. If you have another guava puree, use that instead. Use the guava syrup and then use coconut milk. You can try that, it's gonna be a little bit different. But you're still gonna make something that I think holds true to this because of that allspice jam. Don't skip the allspice jam. You will have something that is... So that's it for this one, the Miami Nice. It's a riff on Miami Vice, which is a pina colada strawberry daiquiri, and it is great. I'm going to finish this thing once I turn the camera off. If you enjoyed this video, please give it a like below, consider subscribing to the channel, and if you want to support this channel more, check out my Patreon page. Otherwise, see you on the next one.