TV Diner Cocktail Competition results(TV Diner) - As always with TV Diner, everyone's a winner! But we did have to choose our three prize winners.
Now we can't compete with the likes of Ellen and Oprah, but we sure can come close when it comes to pleasing our guests.
Find out which three cocktails came out on top, and who walks away with our grand prize!
First Place
Name: Dreamy Banana Tini
Ingredients:
½ Count of Amaretto
½ Count of Cream de Cocoa
Small squirt of Hershey's Syrup
½ cup of Banana Crème (see below)
Garnish glass with raw sugar & almond blend, and chocolate dipped banana slice.
Mix above ingredients in shaker with ice. Strain into garnished martini glass and serve straight up.
Banana Crème Recipe: Cook over low heat - 2 cups light cream, 1 ½ cup milk, add 3 mashed bananas, 1 tsp. vanilla and ½ cup sugar. Stir continuously until well blended and remove from heat just before it begins to boil. Pour and mix in food processor until very smooth then strain and chill.
Chocolate Covered Bananas: Heat large Lint milk chocolate bar over double boiler. Add light cream as needed (to keep the chocolate from burning/drying up). Slice banana and cover with chocolate. Use a skewer to maneuver the banana piece from the double boiler to the parchment paper. Cool covered banana on parchment paper and repeat this process three times. Once chilled roll chocolate covered banana in almond/raw sugar mixture.
Garnish: Blend raw sugar and almonds in food processor until finely blended.
Moisten the edge of the glass, and roll into to the sugar and almond mixture until all edges are coated.
Second Place
Name: Father's Advice
Ingredients:
1 ¼ oz Plymouth gin
½ oz Baines pacharán
½ oz of fresh-squeezed lemon juice
1 tablespoon light cream
½ oz simple syrup
2 dashes Regan's Orange Bitters #6
1 whole egg, preferably an organic one from a local farm
Fresh whole black peppercorns in a mill
Directions:
Combine all ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice, and blend vigorously for about 15 seconds.
Strain and pour into a glass.
Third Place
The Sassy Susan
Ingredients:
1.5 ounces of chilled Vodka
Splash of Grapefruit Juice
Splash of Orange Juice
Splash of Cranberry Juice
Splash of Pineapple Juice
Squeeze of lime
Touch of seltzer for fizz
Directions:
Combine all ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice and shake vigorously for 10 seconds.
Strain and pour into a chilled martini glass and garnish with a twist of lemon or lime.