Name: Mai Tai Cocktail
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Cuisine: Hawaiian
Ingredients: 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

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.

Mai Tai Cocktail

dark molasses rum (such as El Dorado 8-Year Demerara Rum)

light pure cane rum (such as Batiste Rhum Ecoiste)

honey

orgeat syrup (I used Small Hand Foods per Alana’s recommendation)

lime juice

Spritz** Angostura bitters

Lime wheel,

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.

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.

Not quite a true Mai Tai recipe, but much better than those filled with juices and grenadine for sure! Should definitely be garnished with a nice big sprig of mint. The aroma adds so much to this cocktail. If you don't want to splurge for two different rums Appleton Estate Signature rum is a great option. Also, no need to strain over new ice, just toss everything in from your shaker and add more ice if needed to fill the glass, crushed ice is best as it actually keeps your drink colder longer!  IG: @thattikigirl

Hi!  This sounds yummy and refreshing. I’d like to make a batch to take to a neighborhood event. Do you have the measurements for making s large batch instead of individual glasses?  Thanks in advance!

This is delicious! I've been looking for a good mai tai recipe, since the pre-bottled mixes just leave me cold, and this is both refreshing and nothing like I expected. Double win.

Also, your photography is beautiful. I'm still not sure how you got that color, though. My drinks came out a creamy almond color instead of the vibrant orange pictured.

A hammock, a book in one hand and this yummy looking Mai Tai in the other, Heaven!!

mai tai cocktail

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Total: 10 minutes

Servings: 1

Author : Cookie and Kate

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