{"id":8499,"date":"2024-08-13T03:00:56","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T07:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/2013\/07\/31\/watermelon-rum-cooler-with-juice-cubes-2\/"},"modified":"2024-08-13T15:53:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T19:53:15","slug":"watermelon-rum-cooler-with-juice-cubes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-rum-cooler-with-juice-cubes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Watermelon Rum Cooler with Juice Cubes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rum cooler is a popular and yummy drink made even better with homemade juice cubes. Made from your favorite juices, these cubes are a great way to preserve fresh juice in the form of ice cubes. These juice cubes can then be used to flavor water or your favorite fruity drink. This cocktail uses ice cubes made with fresh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/mint-can-definitely-have-a-place-in-the-garden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mint grown in the garden<\/a> and the last <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/how-to-tell-watermelon-ripe-for-harvest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watermelons<\/a> of the season but it can be customized for individual tastes using other juice and herb combinations.<\/p>\n<h2>Homemade Juice Cubes<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Juice Cube Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2\u00bd cups watermelon chunks<\/li>\n<li>15 fresh mint leaves<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Juice Cube Preparation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Make the ice cubes at least six hours before you\u2019re ready to use them in cocktails or other recipes. Feed the watermelon and the mint leaves into an electric juicer. Make sure to alternate between a few pieces of melon and a few mint leaves at a time. Stir the blended juice. Fill a standard 24-piece ice cube tray with the juice and freeze until firm.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Watermelon Rum Cooler Cocktail Recipe<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"news_title\">Yield:<\/span> 4 rum cooler cocktails<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rum Cooler Cocktail Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 lime, quartered<\/li>\n<li>20 fresh mint leaves<\/li>\n<li>6 cups watermelon chunks, juiced (makes about 24 ounces)<\/li>\n<li>4 ounces white rum<\/li>\n<li>24 ounces of club soda<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span class=\"news_title\">Rum Cooler Cocktail Preparation<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Muddle one-quarter lime and five mint leaves in each of four 16-ounce pint glasses. Remove the mashed lime rind from the glasses. In each glass, pour in six ounces of watermelon juice and one ounce of white rum. Top it off with six ounces of club soda. Stir the ingredients a few times to mix. Add four juice cubes to each glass and serve immediately. Garnish the glass with a sprig of mint and slice of lime to add to a festive flair.<\/p>\n<p>This watermelon rum cooler recipe made with homemade juice cubes was written for Hobby Farms magazine. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/subscribe-new\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to subscribe.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make Summer Fruit Last By Pairing this Cocktail With Homemade Juice Cubes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":122299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[3152,5108,1779,1000,1975],"class_list":["post-8499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recipes","tag-cocktail","tag-juice-cubes","tag-mint","tag-recipe","tag-watermelon"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.0 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Watermelon Rum Cooler with Juice Cubes - Hobby Farms<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A rum cooler is a popular drink made better with homemade juice cubes. This cooler uses juice cubes made with mint and watermelon and can be customized.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-rum-cooler-with-juice-cubes-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Watermelon Rum Cooler with Juice Cubes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A rum cooler is a popular drink made better with homemade juice cubes. This cooler uses juice cubes made with mint and watermelon and can be customized.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-rum-cooler-with-juice-cubes-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Hobby Farms\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hobbyfarms\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fakefoodfree\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-08-13T07:00:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-08-13T19:53:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-cooler_400.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"509\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Lori Rice\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Lori_Rice\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@hobbyfarms\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Lori Rice\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-rum-cooler-with-juice-cubes-2\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-rum-cooler-with-juice-cubes-2\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Lori Rice\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b63e7f572bab2376ba350ea8af6a4481\"},\"headline\":\"Watermelon Rum Cooler with Juice Cubes\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-08-13T07:00:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-08-13T19:53:15+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-rum-cooler-with-juice-cubes-2\/\"},\"wordCount\":313,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-rum-cooler-with-juice-cubes-2\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-cooler_400.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"cocktail\",\"juice cubes\",\"mint\",\"recipe\",\"watermelon\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Recipes\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-rum-cooler-with-juice-cubes-2\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-rum-cooler-with-juice-cubes-2\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-rum-cooler-with-juice-cubes-2\/\",\"name\":\"Watermelon Rum Cooler with Juice Cubes - Hobby Farms\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-rum-cooler-with-juice-cubes-2\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-rum-cooler-with-juice-cubes-2\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-cooler_400.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-08-13T07:00:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-08-13T19:53:15+00:00\",\"description\":\"A rum cooler is a popular drink made better with homemade juice cubes. This cooler uses juice cubes made with mint and watermelon and can be customized.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-rum-cooler-with-juice-cubes-2\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-rum-cooler-with-juice-cubes-2\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-rum-cooler-with-juice-cubes-2\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-cooler_400.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-cooler_400.jpg\",\"width\":400,\"height\":509,\"caption\":\"Photo by Lori Rice\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-rum-cooler-with-juice-cubes-2\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Watermelon Rum Cooler with Juice Cubes\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/\",\"name\":\"Hobby Farms\",\"description\":\"Rural Living for Pleasure and Profit\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Hobby Farms\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/00GPSuRp-logo.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/00GPSuRp-logo.png\",\"width\":586,\"height\":68,\"caption\":\"Hobby Farms\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hobbyfarms\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/hobbyfarms\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b63e7f572bab2376ba350ea8af6a4481\",\"name\":\"Lori Rice\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/19170005\/Lori-Rice-150x150.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/19170005\/Lori-Rice-150x150.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Lori Rice\"},\"description\":\"Lori Rice is a writer, photographer and nutritional scientist. Her love of agriculture led to her past work in cooperative extension and to her current passion for capturing the story of small-scale food production through her writing and photos.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.fakefoodfree.com\/\",\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fakefoodfree\/\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/Lori_Rice\/\",\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/fakefoodfree\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/Lori_Rice\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/author\/lori-rice\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Watermelon Rum Cooler with Juice Cubes - Hobby Farms","description":"A rum cooler is a popular drink made better with homemade juice cubes. This cooler uses juice cubes made with mint and watermelon and can be customized.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-rum-cooler-with-juice-cubes-2\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Watermelon Rum Cooler with Juice Cubes","og_description":"A rum cooler is a popular drink made better with homemade juice cubes. This cooler uses juice cubes made with mint and watermelon and can be customized.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-rum-cooler-with-juice-cubes-2\/","og_site_name":"Hobby Farms","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hobbyfarms","article_author":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fakefoodfree\/","article_published_time":"2024-08-13T07:00:56+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-08-13T19:53:15+00:00","og_image":[{"width":400,"height":509,"url":"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-cooler_400.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Lori Rice","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@Lori_Rice","twitter_site":"@hobbyfarms","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Lori Rice","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-rum-cooler-with-juice-cubes-2\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-rum-cooler-with-juice-cubes-2\/"},"author":{"name":"Lori Rice","@id":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b63e7f572bab2376ba350ea8af6a4481"},"headline":"Watermelon Rum Cooler with Juice Cubes","datePublished":"2024-08-13T07:00:56+00:00","dateModified":"2024-08-13T19:53:15+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-rum-cooler-with-juice-cubes-2\/"},"wordCount":313,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-rum-cooler-with-juice-cubes-2\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-cooler_400.jpg","keywords":["cocktail","juice cubes","mint","recipe","watermelon"],"articleSection":["Recipes"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-rum-cooler-with-juice-cubes-2\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-rum-cooler-with-juice-cubes-2\/","url":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-rum-cooler-with-juice-cubes-2\/","name":"Watermelon Rum Cooler with Juice Cubes - Hobby Farms","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-rum-cooler-with-juice-cubes-2\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-rum-cooler-with-juice-cubes-2\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-cooler_400.jpg","datePublished":"2024-08-13T07:00:56+00:00","dateModified":"2024-08-13T19:53:15+00:00","description":"A rum cooler is a popular drink made better with homemade juice cubes. This cooler uses juice cubes made with mint and watermelon and can be customized.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-rum-cooler-with-juice-cubes-2\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-rum-cooler-with-juice-cubes-2\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-rum-cooler-with-juice-cubes-2\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-cooler_400.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-cooler_400.jpg","width":400,"height":509,"caption":"Photo by Lori Rice"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/watermelon-rum-cooler-with-juice-cubes-2\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Watermelon Rum Cooler with Juice Cubes"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/","name":"Hobby Farms","description":"Rural Living for Pleasure and Profit","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/#organization","name":"Hobby Farms","url":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/00GPSuRp-logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/00GPSuRp-logo.png","width":586,"height":68,"caption":"Hobby Farms"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hobbyfarms","https:\/\/x.com\/hobbyfarms"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b63e7f572bab2376ba350ea8af6a4481","name":"Lori Rice","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/19170005\/Lori-Rice-150x150.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/19170005\/Lori-Rice-150x150.jpg","caption":"Lori Rice"},"description":"Lori Rice is a writer, photographer and nutritional scientist. Her love of agriculture led to her past work in cooperative extension and to her current passion for capturing the story of small-scale food production through her writing and photos.","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.fakefoodfree.com\/","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fakefoodfree\/","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/Lori_Rice\/","https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/fakefoodfree\/","https:\/\/x.com\/Lori_Rice"],"url":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/author\/lori-rice\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122302,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8499\/revisions\/122302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}