Malibu Stacy

1 part Bacardi Coco
2 parts Diet Sprite
Serve over ice

Pour coconut rum into anything and you can call it "Malibu" something … Malibu Coke, Malibu Mountain Dew, Malibu Soymilk … I don't know that any coconut trees grown in Malibu, but that's the spin.

My primary bartending assistant lately is Google … I just do a search on whatever ingredients I happen to have in the house, and take my chances with the result. Having consumed all my name-brand champagne, high-end vodka, and cooking sherry, I was left only with coconut rum and Diet Sprite.

Google informed me that coconut rum and Sprite constitutes a "Malibu Sprite," so the simple substitution of the diet drink, obviously, results in a Malibu Stacy. Shallow, simple, straightforward, sexy, and a little stupid.

Quite tasty, and buzzy enough to make your Account Executive coworker start to look like a washboard-stomach Mailbu Ken, at your next four-cocktail work lunch. Blame it on the bottle when you wake up the next day, blurry of memory and not having come, and your newfound Ken starts haranguing you on the finer points of the company's 401(k) instead of surfing.

Review by Darling Nancy