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Mai Tai Cocktail
Learn how to make classic mai tai cocktails with this simple recipe from the Aloha Kitchen cookbook. They're strong and delicious, like mai tais should be! Recipe as written yields 1 cocktail; you can make 2 at once in a large shaker.
- Prep time
- 10 min
- Cook time
- No separate cook time
- Yield
- 1 serving
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 2 ounces dark molasses rum (such as El Dorado 8-Year Demerara Rum)
- 1 ounce light pure cane rum (such as Batiste Rhum Ecoiste)
- ½ ounce honey simple syrup*
- ½ ounce orgeat syrup (I used Small Hand Foods per Alana’s recommendation)
- ¾ ounce fresh lime juice
- Spritz** or dash of Angostura bitters
- Lime wheel, for garnish
Instructions
- 1
Fill a double old-fashioned glass with ice and set it aside to chill. In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, combine both rums, the honey syrup, orgeat syrup and lime juice.
- 2
Shake. Strain the cocktail into the ice-filled glass. Evenly spritz the top of the drink with bitters and garnish with a lime wheel before serving.