Mai tai

Name: Mai tai
Yield: 2
Ingredients: 2 limes; 50ml Cointreau; 50ml Bacardi 8 rum; 50ml Bacardi Oro; 1 tablespoon orgeat syrup (15ml); orange zest and 1 sprig of fresh mint, to garnish; cubed ice

Not Too Tricky

serves 2

Recipe From

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Ingredients

2 limes

50ml Cointreau

50ml Bacardi 8 rum

50ml Bacardi Oro

1 tablespoon orgeat syrup (15ml)

orange zest and 1 sprig of fresh mint, to garnish

cubed ice

Method

Mai Tai is Tahitian for “good”, but we think this tropical cocktail is better than that – it’s South Pacific sunshine in a glass! Get your grass skirts on.

Squeeze the lime juice into a cocktail shaker
Pour in the Cointreau, the Bacardi 8 rum and the Bacardi Gold rum
Add the orgeat syrup and stir
Fill up the cocktail shaker and shake hard for 20 seconds
Pour into a short rock glass and fill up with ice
Garnish with orange zest, a sprig of mint and a straw

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