This vibrantly colored Mai Tai cocktail recipe is the ultimate, fruity summer tiki drink. It’s the perfect tropical getaway any time of the year – and this luscious beverage is 0-carbs, too.
For this recipe you’ll need: white rum, spiced rum, lime, lemon, club soda, sugar free syrups in the following flavors (I use Torani): pineapple, orange, almond, and cherry
Summer is almost over. My kids started school last week and the days have been dipping under 100F – a sure sign of fall here in Texas. I’m honestly kind of ready for autumn and all of the comfy-coziness it brings but I’ll be a little sad to say goodbye to my fruity tiki drinks, like this Mai Tai cocktail.
This cocktail really made me think because I couldn’t, for the life of me, get the flavor right. It would taste too mediciney, or too sweet, or not sweet enough until finally, VOILA!
A perfect, low carb Mai Tai recipe – just in time to raise a toast to the end of summer.

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The sugar free syrups are always available locally but you can almost always find them online. I’ve found SO many uses for the sugar free pineapple syrup!
More Low Carb Cocktail Recipes
There’s no reason not to enjoy an occasional cocktail on a low carb diet, especially when they are low carb/no carb like this one! Here are more of my favorites:
- Planter’s Punch
- Blue Lagoon Cocktail
- Ocean Breeze
- Sex in the Driveway
- Sex on the Beach
- Watermelon Margarita
Low Carb Mai Tai Cocktail Recipe
Whether you’re on a tropical beach, hiding from the triple digit heat in your house, or fighting the winter blues with a sleet storm going on outside this cocktail recipe will brighten up any day! Mai Tai means “good” in Polynesian and this mouthwatering mai tai cocktail certainly lives up to that. If you like this recipe please give it 5 stars, thanks!


Low Carb Mai Tai Cocktail
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 ounces spiced rum
- 1 1/2 ounces white rum
- 1 ounce sugar free pineapple syrup , more to taste
- 1/2 ounce sugar free almond syrup
- 1/4 ounce sugar free orange syrup
- 1/4 ounce sugar free cherry syrup
- 1/2 teaspoon lime juice
- 6 ounces club soda
- lemon and lime slices for garnish
Instructions
- Shake all ingredients except the club soda and garnishes in a shaker filled with ice.
- Pour into an ice filled glass.
- Top with club soda - if you don't stir it should stay separate as in the images.
- Garnish with lemon and lime wheels and serve.
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One Response to “Mai Tai Cocktail Recipe: Low Carb Tiki Drink”
Jeff K
I would suggest, some light and dark rum (spiced rum is always packed full of sugar). A smidge of funky rum (Jamaican or anything from French colonies). You could easily make orgeat (almonds, orange flower water, and your sugar of choice) if you have a blender and a strainer. Squeeze fresh lime juice of your own. Shake like a baby, dump in a cup. Put pint on to (after you slap or rub a cpl leaves)