Twisted Mai Tai Food

ROYAL HAWAIIAN MAI TAI

Steps:

• Mix first 6 ingredients in pitcher.
• Fill 4 small glasses with ice.
• Pour rum mixture over; stir to blend.
• Garnish with pineapple and mint, if desired.
• Makes 4 servings.

TONGA MAI TAI

Steps:

• Mix the dark and light rum, orgeat syrup, and orange and pineapple juice in a cocktail shaker with ice cubes or crushed ice. Pour into a glass. Float the triple sec on top by pouring it over the back of a spoon. Garnish with the pineapple wedge and cherry.

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.

KATIE'S TWISTED TEA

Steps:

• Pour the lemonade into ice cube trays. Add 1 mint leaf to each cube. Freeze for at least 2 hours or overnight.
• Divide the lemonade ice cubes among 6 tall glasses. Pour the vodka over the ice cubes and top with Sweet Tea. Finish with a straw and a mint sprig.
• In a medium pot over high heat, bring 2 cups water to a boil. Take off the heat and add the tea bags. Steep the tea for 5 minutes, then remove the tea bags. Stir in the sugar until dissolved. This will be the concentrated base of your tea.
• Add the tea mixture to a pitcher filled with ice. Top off with 4 cups of water. Serve immediately or refrigerate, covered, for up to a week.

THE BEST MAI TAI

Steps:

• mix it all together and shake over ice
• strain into tall iced filled glass.
• serve with citrus wedges.

MINTED MAI TAI

Steps:

• Stir lime juice, syrup and chopped mint leaves in heavy small saucepan over medium heat just until the mixture simmers. Cool.
• Strain syrup into pitcher.
• Add pineapple juice, orange juice and rum; stir to blend.
• Fill 6 tall glasses with ice.
• Pour mixture over.
• Garnish mai tais with fresh mint sprigs.

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.

TWISTED MAI TAI

Steps:

• Shake ingredients with ice and divide between two glasses.
• Garnish with speared fruit, if desired.

MAI TAI

Steps:

• Combine the demerara sugar with 1/2 cup water in a small saucepan and cook over medium-low heat until the sugar is fully dissolved, about 5 minutes. Transfer the demerara syrup to a small bowl and set aside to cool completely, about 15 minutes (see Cook's Note).
• Combine the lime juice, gold and light rums, orange curaçao, orgeat syrup, 1/4 ounce demerara syrup and 1 cup ice in a cocktail shaker and shake vigorously until chilled, about 10 seconds. Pour the cocktail into an old fashioned or rocks glass. Stick the stem of the mint sprig into the center of the cut side of the spent lime half (it should look like a palm tree on a floating island). Place the garnish in the drink lime-side down.

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.

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.

MY TYPE (NON-ALCOHOLIC MAI TAI)

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients except crushed ice in a shaker half filled with ice. Shake well.
• Strain into an old-fashioned glass half filled with crushed ice.
• Garnish with a slice of fruit and a drink umbrella.

PINK MAI TAI

Steps:

• Combine all of the ingredients in the order listed in a Old Fashioned style glass over shaved ice.
• Stir with a swizzle stick.
• Garnish with a slice of pineapple and a cherry.

THE PERFECT MAI TAI

Steps:

• In a large jar or drink cooler, combine the light rum, dark rum, 151 rum, orange liqueur, almond syrup, simple syrup, and lime juice. Stir and top off with orange juice. Do not use grenadine if you want the true Mai Tai! Serve in 8 to 12 ounce glasses with ice.