Cable Car (Cocktail) - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    Sugar Syrup
    1/4 cup water
    1/4 cup superfine sugar, plus
    1 tablespoon superfine sugar
    Cocktail
    1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
    1 lemon wedge
    1 cup ice cube
    5 tablespoons spiced rum
    1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
    3 tablespoons orange Curacao
    2 orange rind twists
Preparation
    Chill two Martini glasses in freezer.
    Bring 1/4 cup water to boil in heavy small saucepan over high heat. Add 1/4 cup sugar and stir until dissolved. Cool sugar syrup completely.
    On small plate, stir remaining 1 tablespoon sugar and cinnamon to blend.
    Rub rims of chilled glasses with lemon wedge. Dip rims into cinnamon sugar to coat lightly.
    Combine ice, rum, lemon juice, curacao, and 2 tablespoons sugar syrup in cocktail shaker (reserve remaining sugar syrup for another cocktail -- can keep in pantry for a couple of weeks).
    Shake mixture until cocktail shaker becomes frosty.
    Strain mixture into prepared glasses.
    Garnish with orange peel twists and serve.

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