Created by Roger Gobler, then bartender at Café Terra Cotta, Scottsdale, Arizona. Winner of Smirnoff Vodka Cocktail Competition in Phoenix, 1993.

Makes 1 cocktail

1 ounce of vodka
¾ ounce Midori liqueur
¼ ounce crème de banana
¼ ounce Malibu rum
½ ounce half-and-half

Fill a cocktail shaker half full of ice. Add all of the ingredients and shake until creamy and well chilled. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Serve at once.


Reprinted by permission from New Classic Cocktails by Gary Regan and Mardee Haidin Regan. Photography by Lisa Koenig. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Copyright © 2002 by Gary Regan and Mardee Haidin Regan. All rights reserved. Photo © Antonio Nunes/Fotolia.