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2. Combine ice, rums, coconut, half-and-half, mango juice, pineapple juice, and half (1 ounce) of the strawberry puree in a blender and blend on high speed until the ice is crushed and the drink is smooth.
3. Pour the remaining 1 ounce of strawberry puree into the bottom of a 14-ounce wine glass.
4. Pour the drink into the glass over the strawberry puree. Add the strawberr y, orange slice, and pineapple slice to the rim of the glass. Add a straw and serve.
• MAKES 1 DRINK.
THE CHEESECAKE FACTORY KEY LIME MARTINI
It’s like eating a key lime pie, except there’s no crust, it looks like a martini, and you’re drinking it. For the whipped cream in this recipe be sure to use the canned kind with a nozzle top. Estimate about a cup’s worth into the shaker with everything else and shake it up real good.
1½ ounces Vox vodka
½ ounce Midori liqueur
½ ounce white crème de cacao
liqueur
juice of ½ lime
1 ounce simple syrup (from
page 226)
1 cup canned whipped cream
(nozzle top)
GARNISH
sugar for rim
whole lime slice
1. Chill a martini glass by filling it with ice and water.
2. Add all the ingredients into a shaker, along with a handful of ice, and shake well.
3. Remove ice and water from the martini glass, then moisten just half of the rim of the glass and dip it into sugar.
4. Strain drink into the glass, and add a lime slice to the sugared side of the rim (so that the drink is sipped from the unsugared edge), and serve.
• MAKES 1 DRINK.
THE CHEESECAKE FACTORY J.W. PINK LEMONADE
This drink is named after the bartender who invented it over nine years ago: Mr. Jeff Wiley, of the Redondo Beach, California, Cheesecake Factory. He’s still there inventing killer drinks, but none have been as successful as this cocktail, which is currently one of the top five best-selling drinks at the chain.
If you don’t want to make lemonade from scratch and want something that tastes similar to the stuff used at the Factory, pick up Country Time lemonade. If you’ve got time to take the fresh-squeezed route, check out the fresh lemonade recipes on pages 88-90.
1½ ounces Absolut Citron vodka
½ ounce Chambord liqueur
6 ounces (¾ cup) Country Time
lemonade
GARNISH
sugar for rim
lemon wedge
1. Moisten the rim of a 16-ounce glass. Dip the rim in sugar then fill it with ice.
2. Add the ingredients in the order listed, garnish with a lemon wedge, and serve with a straw.
• MAKES 1 DRINK.
THE CHEESECAKE FACTORY TWILIGHT ZONE
Next stop . . . this crazy drink. Looking at this list of ingredients, you just know it’s going to end with an ironic, thought-provoking twist.
½ ounce Bacardi light rum
½ ounce Myers’s dark rum
½ ounce crème de cacao liqueur
¼ ounce Bacardi 151 rum
¼ ounce triple sec liqueur
¼ ounce amaretto liqueur
2 ounces (¼ cup) mango juice
2 ounces (¼ cup) orange juice
2 ounces (¼ cup) pineapple juice
splash grenadine
GARNISH
lime wedge
orange slice
maraschino cherry
1. Fill a 16-ounce glass with ice.
2. Add all the ingredients in the order listed.
3. Drop in lime wedge, orange slice, and maraschino cherry. Serve with a straw.
• MAKES 1 DRINK.
THE CHEESECAKE FACTORY TROPICAL MARTINI
This drink weaves together the sophistication of a martini with the loose fruity fun of a tasty tropical number. If you can’t find straight passion fruit juice, pick up a passion fruit blend, such as Mauna Lai Paradise Passion guava/passion fruit blend, and make one of these immediately.
2 ounces vodka
2 ounces passion fruit juice
1 ounce mango juice
1 ounce pineapple juice
½ ounce simple syrup (from page
226)
splash grenadine
GARNISH
sugar for rim
whole strawberry
pineapple slice
1. Chill a martini glass by filling it with ice and water.
2. Add all the ingredients into a shaker, along with some ice, and shake well.
3. Remove ice and water from martini glass, then moisten half of the rim of the glass and dip it into sugar.
4. Strain drink into the glass, add a strawberry and pineapple slice to the sugared side of the rim (so that the drink is sipped from the unsugared