Halloween Mai Tai
What happens when Vodka puts on a Halloween Costume. It becomes a Mai Tai! Classic Mai Tai made with Pau Maui Vodka in place of traditional rums. Recipe based off Trader Vic's Mai Tai.
Ingredients
- 1.5 ounces Pau Maui Vodka
- .75 ounce orange liqueur
- .75 ounce lime juice
- .5 ounce Orgeat
- .25 ounce rich simple syrup*
- .5 ounce dark rum I used Mahina rum
Garnish:
- lime wheel or small lime cut in half width wise
- Fresh mint sprigs
Instructions
- Fill a cocktail glass ( large rocks glass with pebble ice). Add all the ingredients except the dark rum into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake well and strain into glass. Top with dark rum. Garnish with lime and mint. Serve.
Notes
Mai Tai’s call for rock candy syrup, demerara syrup or a *rich simple syrup. Demerara sugar is harder to find and it's easy to make a rich simple syrup at home. Go with a 2:1 sugar to water ratio - a cup of sugar to half a cup of water. Heat and stir until sugar is dissolved, let cool until ready to use. Store in fridge in an airtight container. It will keep for 2 weeks.