Mellow Mai Tai Food

MAI TAI

Steps:

• Combine the rums, lime juice, orange liqueur, almond syrup, orange juice and pineapple juice in a mason jar and secure the lid. Shake well. Fill 4 rocks glasses with ice and pour over the mixture.
• Add a splash of cherry juice to each glass. Garnish with the cherries, wedges of fresh pineapple and mint leaves.

MAI TAI COCKTAIL

Steps:

• Combine pineapple juice, rum, lime juice, Curaçao, orgeat, and cherry juice in a cocktail shaker.
• Fill with ice and shake vigorously for 20 seconds.
• Strain into an ice-filled rocks glass. Top with dark rum, and garnish with mint, cherry, and pineapple.

MAI TAI FOR A CROWD

Steps:

• In a large pitcher, add the light rum, Jamaican rum, orange liqueur, lime juice, orange juice and orgeat syrup and stir until combined. Add crushed ice to rocks glasses, then pour the mai tai over the ice. Add a splash of grenadine to each, then garnish with an orange wheel, lime wheel and maraschino cherry.

THE ORIGINAL MAI TAI

Steps:

• Pour all the liquids into a cocktail shaker. Fill it with ice and shake for about 30 seconds. Pour it all into a 16-ounce double old-fashioned glass. Garnish with lime slice, pineapple, and mint sprig.

MOBILE MAI TAI

Steps:

• In a small pitcher, combine the pineapple juice, orange juice, white rum, lime juice, grenadine and almond liqueur or syrup/extract. Set aside.
• Using a paring knife, make the straw holes in the center of the lids of 2 "to-go" cups larger by expanding the "X" large enough so that the top of a mini bottle of rum fits through it. Using the paring knife, make another "X" in the lid for a straw hole. Set aside. Fill the to-go cups with ice. Divide the prepared Mai Tai between the two cups. Add a cherry to each.
• Unscrew the cap from each mini bottle of spiced rum. Invert the prepared lid and place the nozzle of the bottle into the expanded straw hole in the center of the lid. In one quick motion, place the top of the bottle into the cocktail and secure the lid on the cup. This will create a vacuum that will distribute the spiced rum in the cocktail as you drink it. Add straws to the second straw holes and sip away.

MAI TAI

Steps:

• Pour the golden rum, curacao, orgeat, lime juice and sugar syrup into a cocktail shaker with a handful of ice cubes. Shake until the outside of the shaker feels really cold.
• Fill a tumbler with crushed ice then strain the cocktail over it. Slowly pour the dark rum over the top so it stains the top of the drink a rusty gold.
• Garnish with fruit like pineapple, lime and cocktail cherries if you like.

MAI TAI

Steps:

• Fill a 12 ounce glass with ice cubes.
• Pour in rum and amaretto.
• Fill remainder of glass with half orange juice and half pineapple juice.
• Add a splash of grenadine for color.