Flaming Rum Monkey

Total Time: 3 mins Preparation Time: 2 mins Cook Time: 1 min

Ingredients

• Servings: 1
• 1 teaspoon brown sugar
• 1 pinch ground cloves, to taste
• 1 pinch nutmeg, to taste
• 1 pinch cinnamon, to taste
• 1 teaspoon coconut syrup or 1 teaspoon pina colada syrup
• 1 tablespoon boiling water
• 2 ounces dark jamaican rum
• 1 ounce dark creme de cacao
• boiling water
• 1 pinch brown sugar, for garnish (flames!)
• rum, of the 151 sort for garnish (flames!)

Recipe

• 1 warm a mug. (you can do this by filling a mug with boiling water, letting it sit for a a minute, and pouring it out. or just fill a mug with water and nuke it for about 30 seconds and then pour it out.).
• 2 place into the mug a teaspoon of brown sugar and the cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, and coconut syrup. add about a tablespoon of boiling water and swish it about a bit to dissolve the sugar.
• 3 add the rum and crème de cacao, then fill the remainder of the mug with boiling water. stir.
• 4 get your kitchen lighter ready. find yourself a large spoon – at least as large as a tablespoon but it can be a serving spoon, too. place a generous pinch of brown sugar in the bowl of the spoon, then add 151 rum until it’s just about full.
• 5 hold the filled spoon over boiling water in the mug to allow the rum to get warm (but don’t actually let it touch the water).
• 6 carefully light the rum in the spoon on fire and then oh-so-carefully tip the spoon into the mug’s contents.
• 7 as pat murphy says, “the mixture in the mug will burn with a lovely blue flame.â€?.
• 8 carefully – away from any innocent (or not so innocent, mind you) bystanders – blow out the flames and enjoy your flaming rum monkey. yum!