Bananas Foster Cocktail

Mixology Monday: New Orleans



Bananas Foster Cocktail

This month's Mixology Monday theme (thanks to Paul for hosting) has a New Orleans theme, apropos of course to the venue for Tales of the Cocktail. Sadly, my professional duties sent me to California last week instead. But my thoughts were still in the bayou.

For the past ten years or so I've always had one case or another in Louisiana. Once I went to New Orleans leading up to a settlement meeting. I had an unforgettable meal at Brennan's restaurant, from turtle soup to a tableside preparation of Bananas Foster. Many years later, I remember every bite of that dessert. This cocktail morphs the key flavors of Bananas Foster -- brown sugar, dark rum, bananas, cinnamon, cream -- into liquid form.

(By the way, we ended up with a sweet settlement.)

Salut!


Bananas Foster Cocktail

2 oz dark rum
1 oz banana liqueur
1 oz dark brown sugar syrup
1 oz cream

Shake ingredients together with ice and strain into a cocktail glass with a cinnamon-sugar rim garnish.