A creamy dessert drink that sips like a boozy banana-chocolate milkshake, ripe and sweet up front with a soft cocoa depth underneath, served cold in the coupe with a dusting of nutmeg if you like. Think of a Grasshopper with banana where the mint would be: crème de banane brings the fruit, crème de cacao rounds it out, and the cream knits the two into a velvety, after-dinner body.
Garnish: Grated Nutmeg
Shaken · Coupe · Up
add
Add the crème de banane, white crème de cacao, and heavy cream to a shaker.
shake
Add ice and shake hard until well chilled and frothy.
strain
Double-strain into a chilled coupe.
garnish
Optionally dust with freshly grated nutmeg.
The Banshee, also known as the Banana Banshee, is linked by legend to mid-century New Orleans and to Nick's Original Big Train Bar, where it turns up on the roster of house drinks. The bar's proprietor, Nicholas "Mr. Nick" Castrogiovanni, was known for liqueur drinks shaken by hand with whole cream, though no record credits him or anyone else with inventing this particular one. In structure it belongs to the equal-parts family of cacao-and-cream after-dinner cocktails, with the Grasshopper as its nearest sibling.