Coquito is the Puerto Rican version of eggnog. This traditional Puerto Rican holiday drink is typically made with coconut milk, coconut cream, sweetened condensed milk, vanilla, cinnamon, and rum.

Today is National Coquito Day, which means there’s no better time to get acquainted with this creamy coconut milk- and rum-based cocktail that’s a popular Christmas cocktail in Puerto Rico.

Each Puerto Rican family or community can usually point ... the holiday season or serving at parties. Because of the rum, coquito was mostly off-limits for my brother and me, but every year ...

Coquito is like eggnog, but better. Served predominately in Puerto Rico, where it originated, it is a rich, milky rum drink sweetened with curls of coconut cream, not to mention both evaporated ...

Coquito has four main ingredients (coconut milk, coconut cream, Puerto Rican rum, and sweetened condensed milk); however, hundreds of variants exist based on location and family traditions.

The legend goes coquito was created in the 1950s after condensed milk was introduced in Puerto Rico. Because the combination of coconut water and rum was already a popular mixture, adding ...

The primary difference between a coquito and eggnog is that the Carribbean drink does not have egg and it calls for Puerto Rican rum. Traditions are what they are because they do not change.