The Story Behind The Mai Mojito Colada

Running up to Halloween this year, I’ve already treated myself to one too many Halloween inspired cocktails, so now I find myself dreaming of somewhere tropical where I can just lay back and relax.

Today’s cocktail is a combination of my three favorite tropical rum cocktails; the Mai Tai, the Mojito and the Piña Colada as I couldn’t decide on which I wanted more. I’m using rum as the primary spirit for my concoction but from each of the cocktails I have taken the most pronounced flavor in order to build a cocktail that makes me think of a Creamsicle and tastes like I am laying in a hammock on a beach somewhere in the Caribbean.

Ingredients

1.5 ounces white rum
0.5 ounce orange curaçao
2 ounce orange juice
1 ounce lime juice
0.5 ounce mint simple syrup (recipe below)
0.5 ounce coconut cream
1 mint sprig
1.5 cups ice

Directions

Combine white rum, orange curacao, orange juice, lime juice, mint simple syrup and ½ cup of ice into shaker.
Shake hard to combine and chill ingredients and strain into hi-ball glass over fresh ice.
Float coconut cream.
Garnish with mint sprig.