Tonga Mai Tai Recipes

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Dip the rim of a tall glass into the egg whites, and then the sugar. Put the rum, Triple Sec, and juices into a cocktail shaker. Shake to mix. Fill the glass with the ice and pour the cocktail over it. Decorate with cherries, pineapple, and/or orange slices, and drink with a straw.

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• 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.

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• Combine all the liquid ingredients in a large glass. Add ice and stir. Drop the cherry in the drink and garnish the rim of the glass with the pineapple slice. Place the paper umbrella in the glass and serve immediately.

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• 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.

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• 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.

Steps:

• Mix together the pineapple juice, orange juice and grenadine in a large pitcher. Add the spiced rum, coconut rum and sparkling clementine juice if using; mix well to combine.
• Cut the ends off the pineapple, and then remove the skin, being careful to trim away the eyes. Slice the pineapple about 1/2-inch thick. Use mini cookie cutters to cut fun shapes.
• Load picks with the pineapple, clementine wedges and cherries.
• Pour the juice mixture into glasses over ice and garnish with the fruit skewers.