My Sugar Free Mai Tai
After a little thought about the whole sugar free cocktails that I was preoccupied with for a while, trying to find a good, low carb way to enjoy a few of my favorite cocktails, I got a few ideas going about how to just mix my own.
Here’s what I came up with. My own version of the increasingly popular Mai Tai drink that is a sugary, but very tasty blend of light and dark rums and some other very naughty fruity and sugar flavors that are sure to rack up calories and make us feel bloated and water-retained the next day.
My sugar free Mai Tai creation:
Make one glass of orange flavored Crystal Light. I used the “Sunrise Classic Orange” flavor, which has 5 calories and 0 carbs per serving and tons of flavor.
Then, I added a touch of Grenadine, which does add a bit of sugar, but not nearly as much as it would be if you were not using a sugar free base. Then, to add a little more flavor and nutrition, I added a bit of squeezed fresh lemon juice into the mix.
The alcohol that goes into the drink (is mixed thoroughly in) is a light rum. You can use spiced rum too, but it’s probably better to use regular light rum. Once all of this is mixed together and preferably chilled well through mixing in a shaker with lots of ice, pour it into a cup.
Add a splash or Meyer’s Dark Rum. And you’ve got yourself a pretty darn good, lower calorie Mai Tai, without all the guilt of a regular one, which can be 300 plus calories, depending on the size of the drink.
