Trader Vic Mai Tai Cocktail

Ingredients

• cup crushed ice
• lime
• fluid ounce srum (such as 17-year old J. Wray & Nephew Jamaican rum)
• 1/2 fluid ounce orgeat syrup (such as French Garnier Orgeat)
• 1/2 fluid ounce orange Curaçao liqueur
• 1/4 fluid ounce rock can dy syrup
• cup ice cubes
• sprigfresh mint

Instructions

1. Fill a rocks glass with 1 cup crushed ice. Freeze the glass.
2. Cut a strip of zest from lime with a peeler; set aside. Halve lime; juice both halves into a cocktail shaker.
3. Add rum, Orgeat, Curaçao, and rock candy syrup to the cocktail shaker; add 1 cup ice cubes. Cover and shake until the outside of the shaker has frosted.
4. Place reserved lime zest into the chilled rocks glass; strain in mai tai mixture. Float mint sprig on edge of the glass.