We cooked a ham with pineapple glaze for Christmas, so went for pineapple-adjacent flavors for sides… and cocktails of course!

This is a Mai Tai with a passion fruit foam. A friend had something like this in Maui, and I’ve been thinking of it ever since! Why not Christmas? I found this recipe published by a restaurant on Maui called Monkeypod.

  • 1 oz Old Lahaina light rum
  • 1 oz orgeat or almond syrup
  • 1 oz Marie Brizard orange Curaçao
  • ¾ oz lime juice
  • 1 oz Old Lahaina dark rum
  • 1 splash honey-liliko’i (passion fruit) foam
  • ½ pineapple slice

Shake the lime juice, orgeat, curaçao, and light rum with ice, then strain into an ice-filled rocks glass. Float the dark rum. Top with the honey-liliko’i foam, and garnish with the pineapple.

For the foam:

  • ½ oz honey
  • 1 oz passion fruit purée
  • 1 oz simple syrup
  • 1 oz egg white
  • 1 ½ oz water

Mix ingredients well and put in a nitrous-oxide infuser to half capacity. Use 4 charges for a liter-sized infuser. If you do not have access to an infuser, you can blend the ingredients on high speed until foamy.