Pink Squirrel

The Pink Squirrel is a cocktail made of

• 1 oz crème de Noyaux
• 1 oz crème de cacao
• 1 oz heavy cream

Shake with ice, strain into a cocktail glass and serve.

The drink was invented at Bryant's Cocktail Lounge in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Pink Squirrel was invented as an ice cream drink and is still served as an ice cream drink there and in many parts of the upper Midwest.

Pink Squirrels in popular culture

• In the 1982 movie Smithereens, Ed, the guy Wren and Eric end up robbing, mentions that he doesn't usually drink except for Grasshoppers and Pink Squirrels on special occasions.
• In Vagrant Story, a treasure chest containing a mace named Pink Squirrel can be found in the wine cellar.
• In Cocktail the Pink Squirrel is one of the drinks listed in Brian Flanagan's poem "The Last Barman Poet".
• In the fourth season of Reba, Reba mentions that a bartender couldn't make a proper Pink Squirrel.
• The Pink Squirrel cocktail is mentioned by Mike's Mom, in Mike and Molly episode Bachelor/Bachelorette 201204030
• The Pink Squirrel is mentioned in Sue Grafton, "Kinsey and Me," the story called "Non Sung Smoke."
• In the episode "Emmet Bypass" (21 Feb. 1995), of 'Grace Under Fire', Peggy Rea's character, Jean Kelly, asks for a Pink Squirrel during a placebo induced hallucination.
• In Somebody Feed Phil, season 2 episode 2 (Dublin), while visiting the Guinness Storehouse, Phil Rosenthal references his first day as a bartender when a lady asked him to make a Pink Squirrel.