Name: Bananarama
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 3 slice Banana; 30 ml Cachaça (unaged); 20 ml Blended light 3-5yo rum; 15 ml Banana liqueur; 5 ml Corn/maize liqueur; 10 ml Fino sherry; 5 ml Lime juice; 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

Ingredients

3 slice

Banana (preferably overripe)

1 fl oz

Cachaça (unaged)

2/3 fl oz

Caribbean light rum aged 3-5 years

1/2 fl oz

Giffard Banane du Brésil liqueur

1/6 fl oz

Corn/maize liqueur

1/3 fl oz

Lustau Jarana Fino Sherry

1/6 fl oz

Lime juice (freshly squeezed)

2 drop

Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.

Prepare garnish of dried banana chip.

Method

MUDDLE banana with cachaça and rum in base of shaker.

Add other ingredients, SHAKE with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with dehydrated banana chip.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
23.13% alc./vol. (46.26° proof)
21.1 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Fino sherry — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Comments & Discussion

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Simon Sedgley Premium Member 1w

We added just a very, very gentle splash of Licor 43 for a vanilla note.

Ruth Harvey 1w

To commemorate their legendary live 21 August 2021 concert at Kenwood house we are drinking a Bananarama (we might have had some very ripe bananas to use up too😁🍌! What a coincidence!)
We don't have corn syrup so I used navy rum instead.

Nikolaus Linder Premium Member 1y

The step in the recipe when ingredients 4 to 7 are added seems to be missing. To be inserted between 3. and 4., right?

Shogi Redbrook Premium Member 1y

From what I remember you're right, the rest of the ingredients go in the shaker before step 4. I think there's been an automated standardisation to most of the recipes and some of them have got a bit muddled.

Paloma Difford Verified User Premium Member 1y

That's right Shogi! I've amended the method so that step 4 is now 'Add other ingredients, shake with ice'.

Shogi Redbrook Premium Member 1y

Love this one. It’s my kind of digestif. Crisp, complex and contemplative.

James Brooke Premium Member 1y

Simon, please can you tell me what you are using or thinking of when you say "Caribbean blended rum aged 3-5 years"?
Many thanks.

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 1y

I used Bacardi Añejo Cuatro.

Andy Prior Premium Member 2y

If you want to try an interesting variant of this… swap the rum for some Skrewball Peanut-butter Whiskey. I’d say it’s not as complex but if you like peanut butter on your banana or are looking to channel your inner Elvis - it’s not half bad.