Good old fashioned daiquiri

I found a recipe online that I thought sounded amaaazing, a rum old fashioned with prickly pear, lime and (my favorite) tiki bitters.

Easy recipe:

2 oz white rum (recipe called for a mexican rum, but I subbed good old Plantaray)

.5 oz prickly pear syrup

1 dropper tiki bitters

expressed lime peel over top

So, I didn’t have the right rum, but I had a workable white rum, so I gave it a shot. And it was so pretty! And it smelled so good! And it tasted just too medicinal for me. But I thought there had to be something there…if only there was more lime…

So I decided to make it into a daiquiri! Keep everything it already had going on but round it out with some lime juice. And some aquafaba. I had aquafaba leftover from trying to feed my baby chickpeas and I thought it would fluff up this recipe well. And it did. I absolutely loved the resulting drink.

Prickly Daiquiri:

2 oz white rum (Plantaray)

1 oz prickly pear syrup

1 oz lime juice

.5 oz aquafaba

1 dropper tiki bitters

expressed lime peel over top

This drink was exquisite and completely crushable.

Which goes to show, if you find a recipe that sounds delicious but then isn’t, it might just take a little tinkering until it’s right up your alley.