Ménage à trois

Creamy-orangy rum based cocktail.

Ingredients:

• 1 part Cointreau
• 1 part dark rum
• 1 part cream

Instructions:

Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. I put mine in one of my wine glasses just because I felt like a change.

This tastes a bit stronger and harsher than I am used to, especially for a creamy drink. The triple sec gives it a bit of sweetness and a hint of orange flavour but the rum dominates the other two.

The quality and flavour of the rum definitely affects this drink. I used Coruba, and I really don't know whether that's a particularly good rum. I'm nearly out of Coruba so I might try this again when I replace it with some other dark rum.

I didn't like this so much when I first sipped it, but it has since grown on me.