Bird of Paradise

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 oz. Aperol
• 1 oz. overproof rum
• 1 oz. pineapple juice
• 1/2 oz. fresh lime juice
• 1 pineapple leaf (optional, for garnish)

Directions

1. Combine sugar and 1/4 cup water in a jar, cover, and shake until sugar is dissolved.
2. Combine Aperol, rum, pineapple juice, lime juice, and 1/4 oz. syrup in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Cover and shake vigorously 30 seconds. Strain into a glass filled to the brim with crushed ice and garnish with a pineapple leaf, if desired.