Cocktail recipe

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Tony Abou-Ganim's 1996 drink from San Francisco's Starlight Room. Spiced rum, orange curaçao, and lemon under a cinnamon-sugar rim.

Glass
Martini glass
Method
Shake
Difficulty
Easy
Ingredients
6

Ingredients

  • 1½ oz Spiced Rum
  • ¾ oz Orange Curaçao
  • 1 oz Fresh Lemon Juice
  • ½ oz Simple Syrup
  • Sugar, rim, mixed 1:1 with Ground Cinnamon
  • 1 pinch Ground Cinnamon, for the rim

Garnish: Cinnamon-sugar rim, orange spiral

How to make it

  1. Mix the sugar and cinnamon on a plate, moisten the rim of a martini glass, and dip it in the mixture.
  2. Add the rum, curaçao, lemon juice, and simple syrup to a shaker with ice.
  3. Shake until well chilled.
  4. Strain into the rimmed glass.
  5. Garnish with an orange spiral.