12 Passion Fruit Cocktails and Desserts for Year-Round Tropical Vibes
This fragrant tropical fruit is easy to work with and yields amazing results.
Known also as parcha, liliko'i, granadilla, or maracuya, passion fruit is sweet, tangy, and intensely fragrant, making it the star ingredient of many recipes, especially cocktails and desserts. It's at its peak during summer and early fall, but high-quality boxed juices and nectars work just as well in many recipes. If you're buying the whole fruit, remember that wrinkly skin means it's ripe and sweet. Here we share some of our favorite passion fruit–based cocktails , punches, puddings, pavlovas, and cakes .
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Como Spritz
This low-ABV cocktail mixes artichoke-based amaro Cynar with passion fruit syrup, lemon juice, and Prosecco for a well-balanced and refreshing spritz. The passion fruit syrup is easy to make at home, but you can also use a store-bought alternative.
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Saturn
A rare tiki-style cocktail made with gin instead of rum, the frozen Saturn has plenty of tropical notes from ingredients such as orgeat, Falernum, and passion fruit syrup.
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Tropical Rum Punch
Passion fruit juice pairs wonderfully with fellow tropical ingredients such as cream of coconut, pineapple juice, lime juice, and white rum in this easy-to-batch cocktail by Evie-Negri Albert.
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Porn Star Martini
Vanilla simple syrup and vanilla-flavored vodka round out the tangy-sweetness of passion fruit in this cheekily named modern classic cocktail by the late mixologist Douglas Ankrah.
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Porn Star Martini Pop
A frozen, low-alcohol alternative to the cocktail of the same name, this passion fruit popsicle recipe uses less vodka (to facilitate freezing) and incorporates the sparkling wine instead of serving it as a sidecar.
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Coconut Milk Rice Pudding with Tropical Fruit
A rich and creamy rice pudding—made with a combination of unsweetened, sweetened, and evaporated coconut milks — is balanced by tangy passion fruit and fragrant mango in this recipe by James Beard Award–winning food writer Cheryl Slocum.
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Lilikoi
Credit: © Wendell T. Webber
This mocktail by legendary mixologist Julie Reiner is named after the Hawaiian word for passion fruit, and features both straight-up passion fruit juice and a mango-lilikoi syrup.
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Rio-Style Ginger Beer Floats
Chef Eric Ripert of New York City's Le Bernardin riffs on the American root beer float for this Brazilian-leaning drink made with passion fruit and mango sorbet.
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Passion Fruit Batida
In Brazil, a Batida is a popular style of cocktail involving cachaça, fruit juice, and something creamy like coconut milk. In food historian Marisel Presilla's Batida recipe, passion fruit is the juice of choice.
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Pavlovas with Passion Fruit Curd
Be sure to splurge on top-quality pasture-raised eggs for this simple but delicious recipe; the whites go into the meringues, while the yolks thicken the passion fruit curd that sits on top.
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Six-Layer Coconut Cake with Passion Fruit Filling
Don't be intimidated by this six-layer cake. "Just pop the layers out of the baking pans and slap them together," says Decatur-based pastry chef Cynthia Wong. Their dense, puddinglike texture is cut beautifully by tangy passion fruit filling and crunchy coconut flakes.
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Kiwi, Banana, and Passion Fruit Salad
Jean-Georges Vongerichten recommends an assortment of your favorite tropical fruits for this forgiving fruit salad. The star is the simple homemade passion fruit syrup that brings them all together.
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