This Rum Sour is a smooth cocktail that gives you both sweet and sour flavors with every sip. It’s an eye catcher and sends your tastebuds zinging!
This Rum Sour is a pretty cool cocktail with both sweet and sour flavors. It is totally a show stopper with its unique look as well, one of our all-time favorite drinks.
The Rum Sour has a thick foamy top making it quite the fancy looking drink, despite how easy it is to make. Perfect for parties, but simple enough to make for a drink any night of the week.
Ever since I started making these, they’ve always been a hit. We like to change up our cocktails, especially with company and this Rum Sour always goes over well!
The flavors of the lemon, rum and simple syrup just play so nicely together that it just goes down smooth with each and every sip.
If you have been looking for a new cocktail to add to your party or nightly rotation, you have to add this Rum Sour to the mix!
Some of our other favorite cocktail recipes we have on our site include: Dirty Shirley, Frozen Mudslide and a Hot Toddy.
WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS:
- Incredibly tasty and unique
- Made with minimal ingredients
- Super quick- ready in only 3 minutes
INGREDIENTS NEEDED (FULL RECIPE AT BOTTOM):
Dark rum
Pasteurized egg white
Lemon juice, fresh squeezed
Simple syrup
Dried lemon wheels, garnish
Luxardo maraschino cherries, garnish
HOW TO MAKE A RUM SOUR, STEP BY STEP:
- In a cocktail shaker add the rum, egg white, lemon juice, and simple syrup.
- Place the top onto the cocktail shaker, shake vigorously for about 30 seconds.
- Grab a handful of ice and add it to the cocktail shaker, put the top back on and shake vigorously for 1 minute.
- Strain mixture into a coupe glass and garnish with dried lemon wheels and cherries if desired.
HOW DO I DRY LEMON WHEELS?
Here’s how to make simple homemade dried lemon wheels.
- Preheat the oven to 170°F, or on the lowest setting that your oven will go.
- Slice your lemons into 1/8th of an inch wheels.
- Place the cut wheels onto a parchment-lined sheet tray and be sure they don’t touch or overlap.
- Place them in the oven to bake for about 3 hours, or until they appear dry and brittle. Be sure to flip them over half way through. Yours may require a longer bake time.
- Remove them from the oven and let them come to room temperature before using them with your cocktail.
- Store leftover wheels in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 months.
CAN I MAKE THIS VEGAN?
Certainly, the only element in this drink that isn’t vegan already are the egg whites. Instead of egg whites, you can use aquafaba.
If you don’t know what that is, it’s the water or liquid surrounding the chickpeas in a container or can of chickpeas or garbanzo beans.
CAN I USE DIFFERENT CITRUS?
Lemon is the classic citrus used in this cocktail. But you can swap it out for a mix of orange and lemon if desired.
HOW TO STORE:
This cocktail is best when you first make it. I don’t recommend trying to make these ahead of time.
TIPS AND TRICKS:
- If you are apprehensive about the egg whites, as long as they’re pasteurized, they’re safe to use. If you want to change it out, see my suggestion above.
- You can mix up the citrus flavor by using some orange with your lemon.
- This cocktail recipe is perfect to scale and make for of for gatherings.
- If you can’t find luxardo maraschino cherries, you can use regular maraschino cherries.
Want a classic cocktail to wow your party guests with that tastes little time and effort? This Rum Sour needs to be on your radar and on your next cocktail rotation.
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Rum Sour
Ingredients
- 2 ounces dark rum
- 1 large pasteurized egg white
- ¾ ounce lemon juice fresh squeezed
- ¾ ounce simple syrup
- Dried lemon wheels garnish
- Luxardo maraschino cherries garnish
Instructions
- In a cocktail shaker add the rum, egg white, lemon juice, and simple syrup.
- Place the top onto the cocktail shaker, shake vigorously for about 30 seconds.
- Grab a handful of ice and add it to the cocktail shaker, put the top back on and shake vigorously for 1 minute.
- Strain mixture into a coupe glass and garnish with dried lemon wheels and cherries if desired.
Notes
- If you are apprehensive about the egg whites, as long as they're pasteurized, they're safe to use. If you want to change it out, see my suggestion above.
- You can mix up the citrus flavor by using some orange with your lemon.
- This cocktail recipe is perfect to scale and make for of for gatherings.
- If you can't find luxardo maraschino cherries, you can use regular maraschino cherries.
Nutrition
Tornadough Alli is not a nutritionist or dietitian, and any nutritional information shared is an estimate. If calorie count and nutritional value is important to you, we recommend running the ingredients through whichever online nutritional calculator you prefer. Calories and values can vary depending on which brands were used.
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