Banana Split Martini, an Ice Cream Cocktail

A Banana Split is my all time favorite ice cream dish and I couldn't let National Banana Split day go by without coming up with a cocktail that combined all the flavors of chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, pineapple and banana.

Try it out - has to be lower in calories than an actual Banana Split!

The
BANANA SPLIT
MARTINI

INGREDIENTS
1 Oz. Chocolate Vodka
1 Oz. Banana Liqueur
1 Oz. Strawberry Liqueur
1 Tablespoon Pineapple Liqueur
1 Lg. Scoop Vanilla Ice Cream

Garnish: Whipped Cream, Chocolate Dipped Banana Slice, Homemade Maraschino Cherry

Tools: Blender

Glass: Cocktail (Martini)

DIRECTIONS
Plus all the ingredients in your blender and hit the button until nice and creamy. Garnish and enjoy.

Updated 8-2018

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Chocolate Malt Martini - Ice Cream Martinis Continued

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I recently posted several ice cream and popsicle inspired martinis inspired by some of my favorite childhood frozen treats. The whole episode got me on an ice cream kick so I've decided to add a couple more this week based on my current ice cream favorites, Chocolate Malts, Banana Splits and Hot Fudge Sundaes. If I go to an ice cream parlor these are the three things I customarily order.

Today is the Chocolate Malt Martini. I do Chocolate Martinis often and I always have a jar of chocolate malt powder in my cupboard to make chocolate malts. I decided to do some experimenting with that chocolate malt powder.

The first recipe I tried had Bailey's Irish Cream in it instead of the vanilla vodka. Nope, that didn't work - the Bailey's overpowered the flavor of the malt powder even with the malt ball rim! Then I decided to try the vanilla vodka to pump up the vanilla ice cream component and, bingo, a lovely Chocolate Malt Martini!

This is a fun and playful treat that will truly impress your happy hour guests and it's also a great way to serve dessert - Enjoy!

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Find a Martini Bar - Eat a Chocolate Olive (Cholive!)

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Just a couple of little martini things that might be of interest to you, my fellow martini lovers:

Help, I'm in Kuala Lumpur and I need a Martini!

I've just been introduced to a great blog that is listing and reviewing martini bars throughout the world, World Martini Cocktail Review. If you're traveling about the world and need your martini fix this could be a helpful tool! Wouldn't you like to know where you can get a martini in Brussels or Bangkok or Barcelona? Check it out and help Fabio rate some of the martinis and the bars!

Meet Cholive - A Chocolate Olive!

You heard me right - a company has now come up with a chocolate truffle in the shape of an olive made just for garnishing cocktails! This little delicacy is basically a chocolate covered truffle, a creamy ganache filling in a chocolate shell, but the kicker here is they look like chocolate olives and they come with their own nifty, though unusual, little martini picks - you hang the pick on the rim of the glass so the chocolate hangs outside the martini.

They cost between a dollar each and half a dollar each depending on how may you buy. Check out the Cholive here.

I kinda wish I'd thought of this. . . .

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Check This Out - EDIBLE MARTNIS, What a Concept!

I found this video yesterday on how to make Edible Martinis! What an amazing idea - now I want a vacuum machine! Oh, the fun I could have!


I would probably use vodka instead of gin as I'm not all that fond of gin in most cases. BTW, I do agree that if you don't put vermouth in a gin martini it's not really a martini!

Here's my recipe for a Cucumber Martini, which I enjoyed last night to use up my cucumbers before they went bad:

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Firecracker Popsicle Inspired Martini - The POP-A-TINI

The POP-A-TINI is a raspberry, lemon and cherry martini inspired by Popsicle's Firecracker® popsicles. The flavor profile of this martini is based on those same raspberry, cherry and lemon flavors. For the fun blue color of the raspberry part of the popsicle I've used Blue Curacao which adds just a touch of orange/citrus.

The popularity of Blue Bunny's Bomb Pop® (Bomb Pop Martini link below!) inspired a bunch of red, white and blue popsicles with similar flavor profiles but the two most popular were the Bomb Pop and the Firecracker®. Bomb Pop used lime where the Firecracker used lemon. I always found it interesting that growing up in the "atomic age" we had so many explosive icre cream and candy treats! Read more about nuclear noshes on Ice Cream Nostalgia and The Cold War.

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ICE CREAM MARTINI - Banana Fudgesicle Martini!

This one is entirely for me - The BANANA FUDGESICLE MARTINI!
I loved Banana Fudgesicles when I was a kid but Popsicle® quit making them. Yes, I have seen what some call a banana fudgesicle but it is not the same!! Not as creamy and it doesn't have that artificial banana flavoring that just tickles my fancy.

Since I was diddling around with creating ice cream martinis that reminded me of some of my favorite frozen confections as a kid I decided that I would create my own adult version of the Banana Fudgesicle. It's not exactly the same thing because alcohol won't freeze, but it's pretty darn close and it suits my adult palate, especially at cocktail hour.

So, for all my fellow Banana Fudgesicle fanatics out there - this one's for you as well as me, because even though we have no Banana Fudgesicles anymore we now have the BANANA FUDGESICLE MARTINI:

Louis Prima's 1940s recording of "Yes, We Have No Bananas"
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The BOMB POP MARTINI - A retro, adult taste that takes you back to your childhood!

As I mentioned yesterday in my Creamsicle Martini post, I have been having some fun with martinis inspired by the ice cream treats of my youth. All this was started by a rare visit on my street of The Ice Cream Truck!

Today I give you the BOMB POP MARTINI - a really delicious concoction of raspberry rum, cherry vodka and limeade that captures those nostalgic flavors of the Bomb Pop frozen treat from the fifties and sixties. You can now enjoy that wonderful retro ice cream bar with a little more sophistication and an adult kick in this martini!

All these "atomic" named retro treats got me thinking about growing up in a nuclear world, the cold war and how we named some of those space age treats. For a little history on the goodies that inspired this series of martinis and how they got their names read my post on Ice Cream Nostalgia and the Cold War.

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Updated 8-2016
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