New Year's Golden Tiki Cocktail ( Gold Rum Lychee Champagne Cocktail)
Celebrate new years with this sparkling tiki cocktail made with Hawaiian rum, tropical fruit juices, tiki bitters and your favorite bubbly. Cheers to a fabulous new decade.
Ingredients
- Items needed: Coupe champagne glasses cocktail shaker tin
For the cocktails
- 3 oz Koloa Gold Rum
- .5 oz Orange liqueur Cointreau, grand marnier, patron citronage
- 1 oz Lychee juice
- .5 pineapple juice
- 2 teaspoon cinnamon syrup
- few dashes tiki bitters
- Prosecco or brut champagne
Garnish:
- Gold sugar for rimming glasses
- canned lychees in syrup
- bamboo skewers
Instructions
- Pour a little simple syrup onto a small plate, gold sprinkle sugar onto another. Dip the rim of your glasses into the syrup, let excess drip off, then dip into the sugar. Let sit for a few minutes to dry before adding the cocktail to the glasses.
- In a cocktail shaker tin filled with ice add the rum, orange liqueur, lychee juice, pineapple juice, cinnamon syrup and bitters. Shake well and pour into prepared glass. Top with prosecco and a lychee on a skewer. Serve immediately.
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Notes
To make the cinnamon simple syrup combine 1 cup sugar with 1 cup water and 4 whole cinnamon sticks in a small sauce pan. Heat on medium and stir until the sugar is dissolved. Bring to a simmer then remove from heat. Let steep for one hour. Transfer to a bottle or jar with an airtight lid keeping one of the cinnamon sticks in the syrup. Chill completely before using. About 2 hours. You can make this ahead of time before making the cocktails Will keep up to 3 months in the refrigerator.
If you can’t find lychee juice you can use the syrup in place of the juice. It will be a bit sweeter so keep that in mind. You can always swap out the pineapple juice for lemon juice to keep it not as sweet.
Bittermens Tiki bitters can be found at any well stocked liquor store ( or amazon). If you can’t find it you can use aromatic or citrus bitters. I have tried all three with this cocktail and all three work great.
You can make this as a larger batch of cocktails ahead of time for a party. Just up the amount of the cocktail ingredients to desired number of drinks you plan on making ( all ingredients except prosecco or champagne) and keep well mixed and chilled. Mix right before adding to glasses then topping with champagne.