Sams Mai Tai Recipes

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.

Steps:

• Shake all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with 1 cup ice cubes, then strain into a glass filled with ice cubes.
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Steps:

• Fill a cocktail shaker half way with ice cubes. Add the remaining ingredients, except the cherries and shake until cold and frothy, 30 to 45 seconds. Strain into 2 tall glasses with cracked ice. Garnish each with 2 maraschino cherries and paper umbrellas. Serve immediately.

Steps:

• Fill a cocktail shaker 1/2 way with ice cubes.
• Add the pineapple juice, orange juice, light rum, dark rum, triple sec, lime juice, and grenadine and shake for 20 seconds.
• Strain drinks into 2 ice-filled glasses and garnish with maraschino cherries and an orange wheel.

Steps:

• Add the orange juice, pineapple juice, rum, amaretto, lime juice, orgeat syrup, ginger liqueur and nutmeg to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously. Serve over the rocks in a tall island-themed glass. Garnish with the grenadine, pineapple wedge, cherry and lime wheel.

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.

Steps:

• Fill a rocks glass with 1 cup crushed ice. Set aside in the freezer.
• Combine rum, orgeat, orange Curacao, rock candy syrup, and lime juice in a cocktail shaker. Add 1 cup ice, cover and shake until chilled. Strain into the chilled rocks glass.
• Garnish with half of the lime shell inside the drink and float a sprig of fresh mint on the edge of the glass.