We've been exploring different types of mixed drinks lately.  For whatever reason, many of these drinks have oddball names.  My most recent  favorites were "Dirty Girl Scout" and "King of Kingston".  Definitely oddball names but the results taste great.

While the name, "Dirty Girl Scout", may not tell you what is in the drink.  If you equate Girl Scouts with the mint cookies they sell then you'd have a hint of what the "Dirty Girl Scout" is.  The drink mixes Bailey's Irish Cream, Kahlua, vodka and crème de menthe.  It's great and really resembles an adult liquified version of a Girl Scout mint cookie.  But be forewarned, the drink is easy to mess up.  As you'll see below, the recipe calls for 1 teaspoon of crème de menthe whereas all of the other ingredients are 1 ounce.  Both Husband and I, on separate occasions, made the drink with an ounce of crème de menthe.  Fortunately, when I did this I caught my mistake before pouring the ounce into the shaker.  We weren't so lucky the time Husband made it wrong.  Let me just say an ounce of crème de menthe is a lot of mint!

"King of Kingston" is an even odder name.  The drink is a delicious mix of gin, crème de bananas, pineapple juice, grapefruit juice and cream. We stumbled upon this drink when we had an open can of pineapple juice that we wanted to use.  The cream and crème de bananas balance the tartness of the grapefruit juice and sweetness of the pineapple juice.  About the only problem with this drink is that it causes more leftover ingredients with the grapefruit juice....

Dirty Girl Scout

• 1 oz vodka
• 1 oz Kahlua coffee liqueur
• 1 oz Bailey's Irish cream
• 1 teaspoon crème de menthe

King of Kingston

• 1 oz Gin
• 1 tsp Grapefruit Juice
• 1 oz Pineapple Juice
• 1 tsp Grenadine
• 1/2 oz crème de Bananas
• 1 oz Heavy Cream

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