Flaming Rum Monkey

Ingredients

• 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 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!)

Directions

1. 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. 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. 3

   Add the rum and Crème de Cacao, then fill the remainder of the mug with boiling water. Stir.

4. 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. 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. 6

   Carefully light the rum in the spoon on fire and then oh-so-carefully tip the spoon into the mug’s contents.

7. 7

   As Pat Murphy says, “The mixture in the mug will burn with a lovely blue flame.”.

8. 8

   Carefully – away from any innocent (or not so innocent, mind you) bystanders – blow out the flames and enjoy your Flaming Rum Monkey. Yum!