Just Whipping Up Some New Cocktails

I’ve already reviewed Pinnacle Whipped and posted several recipes that incorporated the vodka, including banana cream pie, apple pie, mocha, and Christmas themed cocktails. But now, Pinnacle has come up with even more whipped cream flavored vodkas – Cherry Whipped, Orange Whipped, and Chocolate Whipped. Now I’m a big fan of the original, so I’ll give the company credit for taking a good idea and running with it.

Pinnacle’s “Whip It Up” recipe contest wrapped up on Sunday. To qualify, you had to use one of the whipped cream flavored vodkas. I submitted a different cocktail recipe, but here are some of my concoctions that didn’t quite make the cut.

Wimbledon Brunch
Strawberries & cream and champagne are the official food and drink, respectively, of the Wimbledon sporting event. Here is a cocktail that combines all three. If you wanted to be authentically English, you’d muddle your own Grade I strawberries from Kent. But let’s not get crazy.

1 ½ oz Pinnacle Whipped
2 oz frozen strawberry topping, thawed
2 oz Champagne

Build chilled ingredients in a champagne flute. (Don’t worry about straining out the strawberry pieces – they’ll sink to the bottom like the peach puree in a Bellini.)

Parisian Punch

2 parts Pinnacle Whipped
1 part Chambord
2 parts White Grape Juice
3 parts Parisia Sparkling Lemonade

Combine ingredients in a punch bowl with ice. Add a few orange and lemon wheels and stir. Ladle into punch cups.

Cherry Tree Lane

1 ½ oz Cherry Whipped
¾ oz Amaretto
¾ oz sour apple schnapps
1 oz sour mix

Shake ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a cherry.

Banana Split

1 ½ oz Cherry Whipped
¾ oz Godiva Chocolate Liqueur
4 oz milk
1 scoop strawberry ice cream
1 banana, peeled and sliced
1 scoop ice

Combine ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth. Pour into a Collins glass and garnish with a cherry and a banana wheel on a cocktail skewer.

Dole Whip
Dole Whip is a sort of soft serve frozen dessert sold in Disney's Adventureland and the Polynesian Resort. It comes in pineapple, orange, vanilla, and twist varieties. It’s considered to be the best dessert in Magic Kingdom, and it inspired this cocktail.

1 ½ oz Orange Whipped
½ oz Grand Marnier
½ oz NAVAN Natural Vanilla Liqueur
1 ½ oz Dole Pineapple Juice

Shake ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with an orange slice.

Daisy Buchanan
They probably didn’t drink this at Gatsby’s parties, but I’d like to think they did.

1 melon ball sized scoop orange sherbet
1 ½ oz Orange Whipped
¾ oz Peach schnapps
1 ½ oz Prosecco
1 ½ oz orange juice

Scoop sherbet into a champagne flute. Combine vodka, orange juice, and peach schnapps in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake and strain into champagne flute. Top with Prosecco.

IHOP Martini
Best breakfast ever. In a glass.

Handful of blueberries
½ oz maple syrup
Pinch of cinnamon
Dash of lemon juice
1 ½ oz Chocolate Whipped
1 ½ oz apple cider

Muddle blueberries with cinnamon, maple syrup and lemon juice in the bottom of a cocktail shaker. Add ice, vodka, and cider. Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Kiss Me, I’m Irish

4 mint leaves
1 ½ oz Chocolate Whipped
¾ Bailey’s Irish Cream
4 oz iced coffee
Cream and sugar to taste

Muddle mint leaves in the bottom of a highball glass. Add ice, vodka, Irish Cream, and coffee and speed shake. Add a straw, cream and sugar to taste, and fresh mint leaves for garnish.