How do you make a Cable Car cocktail?!
Answers: Had one in Vegas and it was awesome!
Cable Car
Ingredients:
* 1 1/4 oz Captain Morgan's Rum
* 3/4 oz Orange Curacao
* 1 1/4 oz Sweet and sour
Mixing instructions:
Mix all ingredients into an ice-filled shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled, sugar and cinnomon rimmed cocktail glass. Garnish with an orange spiral twist.
CURACAO-Cura?ao is a general term for orange-flavored liqueur made from the dried peel of bitter oranges found on the Caribbean island of Cura?ao.
Cura?ao can be colored orange (known as Orange Cura?ao or only Cura?ao), blue (Blue Cura?ao), green (Green Cura?ao) or left clear (White Cura?ao). All variants have the same flavor, with small variations in bitterness. Blue and green Cura?ao are often used to provide color to mixed drinks.
SWEET & SOUR-Sour mix, also known as sweet and sour mix or bar mix, is a mixer made of lemon or lime juice and sugar syrup. It is an important part of many cocktails.
To make your own, mix one part heavy sugar syrup (3 parts sugar, 2 parts water) with one part lemon juice, and add 2 egg whites per liter of mix. The egg whites are optional, but will make the drinks slightly foamy. You may want to adjust the sugar/juice ratio to give the mix the right balance of sweetness and tartness.
For one drink:
1/2 oz Orange Curacao liqueur
1 oz Captain Morgan? Original spiced rum
1/2 oz lime juice
1/2 oz sweet and sour mix
Combine everything in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake well and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
This drink is a variation on the classic Sidecar, same classic proportions, with a change in the base spirit. Rather than brandy, Captain Morgan Spiced Rum is used (perhaps the only reason to keep that spirit in your bar is to make this superb drink). Also, rather than a rim of sugar, this drink's crowning touch is a rim of cinnamon sugar. Brilliant!
For me, the key to the successful consumption of this drink is to get a good lick of the cinnamon sugared rim with your first sip, and gradually work your way around until you lick off the last bit of the cinnamon sugar along with your last sip of the cocktail.
The drink was invented at the Drake Hotel in San Francisco (hence the clever shift of nomenclature) by Cory Reistad.
* 2 ounces Captain Morgan Spiced Rum
* 1 ounce Cointreau
* 1/2 ounce fresh squeezed lemon juice
* Cinnamon sugar (use superfine sugar for best results)
Moisten the rim of a cocktail glass with water or a lemon wedge, and dip in the cinnamon sugar so that the rim is coated evenly with cinnamon sugar. Allow to dry for a minute or three. Combine the rest of the ingredients with cracked ice in a cocktail shaker, shake and strain carefully into the rimmed glass. Enjoy.