We love classic cocktails like the margarita, but sometimes we need to spice things up a bit and take one of those classics and shape them like Michelangelo shaped marble into something a bit more interesting. I give you the Tikirita, it combines some of the best ingredients of the margarita with some tiki staples to give you a cocktail that's as good on a beach in Hawaii as it is on your porch after a long summers day.

About the Tikirita

It takes your classic ingredients of a margarita, tequila, lime and salt, and combine them with some of your typical tiki drink ingredients to give you one awesome twist on the classic margarita.

Ingredients

• 2 oz of blanco Tequila - we prefer Casamigos

• 1/2 oz Orgeat Syrup - Almond Syrup is about the same thing

• 1/2 oz Agave nectar

• 1 oz Orange Curacao

• 1 oz lime juice

• Crushed ice

• Optional - black Hawaiian volcanic sea salt

• Garnish - lime, pineapple, and a cherry

How to make the Tikirita

1. Optional - wet rim of tumbler with lime, rim with salt

2. Fill a tumbler as much as you can with crushed ice, the more crushed the better

3. Pour your tequila in first

4. Pour lime juice in

5. Pour the Orgeat Syrup and Agave nectar

6. Top with Orange curacao

7. Stir with cocktail stirrer

8. Add garnish

9. Sit back and enjoy one tasty beverage

10. Welina!