Name: Dirty Banana
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Light gold rum 1-3yo; 30 ml Coffee liqueur; 30 ml Banana liqueur; 60 ml Whipping cream; 1 fresh Banana

Ingredients

2 fl oz

Light gold rum (1-3 year old molasses column)

1 fl oz

Galliano Espresso Coffee liqueur

1 fl oz

Giffard Banane du Brésil liqueur

2 fl oz

Whipping cream

1 fresh

Banana (preferably overripe)

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a POCO GRANDE GLASS.

Prepare garnish of banana chunk (cut garnish from centre of banana and place the rest in the blender to make the cocktail).

Method

BLEND all ingredients with 12oz scoop crushed ice.

POUR into chilled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with banana slice on rim.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

We don't have enough information to calculate the alc./vol., but based on known ingredients, this recipe contains at least:

32 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Whipping cream — Dairy

Review

A rum-laced banana milkshake dirtied by coffee liqueur. The riper the banana used in this cocktail, the better. (Brown spots on the banana skin = tasty cocktail.) This cocktail makes for a filling dessert, so consider splitting this recipe between two 10oz Highball glasses and sharing with a friend. Or for a smaller single-serve:

Dirty Banana (half-sized recipe)
Glass: Highball (6oz - 10oz /18cl - 30cl)
Garnish: Banana chunk on rim
Method: BLEND all ingredients with half 6oz scoop crushed ice.
30ml (1oz) Light rum (mellow white/gold 1-3 year old)
15ml (½oz) Coffee liqueur
15ml (½oz) Crème de banana
30ml (1oz) Single cream/half-and-half
1/2 fresh Banana (peeled)

Comments & Discussion

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Jason Gregory 3d

Too much coffee flavor, using Luxardo espresso liqeur. Gonna use 2.5 oz instead of 3 oz for three servings next time.

Jason Gregory 3d

For one serving that would be ¾ oz instead of 1 I guess

Matthew Parshchikov 19w

Wonderful way to use your overripe bananas. I subbed the coffee liqueur for creme de bruine, nice and chocolaty

Arnold Pichler-Ernst 29w

Really liked this one, used a pot still lightly aged rum instead though and have to say, even with all that funk the rum barely makes it through against all the banana, so i can't imagine the havana club being the best choice

Ruth Harvey 43w

Unexpectedly good! The bananas I used were so ripe I almost threw them...so glad I didn't. I will never feel the need to make banana bread again!

MichaelHN4 Premium Member 1y

A very good drink to sip on the beach. Just had one in Grenada but garnished with a dusting of ground Nutmeg rather than banana wedge. A local touch and very good.

Chris Brislawn 15w

I second the ground nutmeg recommendation. Adds a very nice touch.

Thierry Vandevelde 1y

Can't help myself listening to MJs Dirty Diana while swallowing this one. This is no sipper but some kind of guilty pleasure.

Jack Gordon 1y

Unusually for me, didn’t have any bananas handy, so replaced the cream with banana milkshake. It pushed that sweet almost artificial banana flavour but I loved that. Was generous with the rum which I think kept the sweetness in check and stopped it tipping into full dessert cocktail territory.

Dejan Vidakovic 2y

Love it, however abit too strong for my taste. Had to cut the Havana Club from 6cl to 4cl and added 3cl Bananajuice.

Arjun Ravikumar 3y

Absolutely love this one. I've had this enough to have tried a lot of variants. My favorite is subbing in 1.5 oz of Smith & Cross instead of the gold rum, and a drier coffee liqueur (Mr. Black or Tempus Fugit).