Name: Banana Flambé
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 1&frasl;2 fresh Banana; 30 ml Orange juice; 1 barspoon Superfine sugar; 2 pinch Cinnamon powder; 15 ml Cognac (brandy); 45 ml Vodka; 15 ml Cachaça; 15 ml Lemon juice; 7.5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1)

Banana Flambé
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Serve in an Old-fashioned glass

Ingredients:
¹⁄₂ fresh	Banana (preferably overripe)
1 oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)
1 barspoon	Caster/ Superfine/Baker's special sugar (white)
2 pinch	Cinnamon powder (ground)
¹⁄₂ oz	Rémy Martin V.S.O.P. cognac
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Ketel One Vodka
¹⁄₂ oz	Cachaça
¹⁄₂ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₄ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)

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Garnish: Cinnamon stick

How to make:

In a shallow small pan, heat the banana with orange juice, sugar and cinnamon until the banana softens and the orange juice reduces. Add cognac and flambé further. MUDDLE banana in the base of shaker, add other ingredients, SHAKE with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

Review:

As Tony says "it's worth it".

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Variant:

Substitute the vodka for cachaça for a Banana Flambé Caipirinha.

History:

Created in 2008 by Mauricio 'Tony' Harion from Mixing Bar Consulting, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

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Florian Ruf

1st July 2023 at 14:35

Delicious, although I had to tweak the recipe ?. I used ⅓ rye and ⅔ 8yo. Barbados rum to flambé. I served it in a big coupe glass smoked before with burnt cinnamon, decorated with one ice and the burnt cinnamon stick. The slight burnt odor blends very well with the cachaca.