Cocktail & Other Recipes By Spirit Rum Cocktails

Smashing Pumpkin

Written by
James Horn

Homemade lemon-pumpkin soda is easy to prepare in just a few minutes and lends the Smashing Pumpkin fresh fall flavor. A base of aged rum and allspice liqueur add warming contrast, making this the perfect way to incorporate the season’s favorite squash in your cocktails.

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 oz Spiced rum
  • 1/2 oz Allspice liqueur
  • 3 oz Lemon-pumpkin soda*
  • Garnish: Bay leaf

Steps

  1. Add the rum and liqueur into a Collins glass with ice.

  2. Top with the lemon-pumpkin soda.

  3. Garnish with a bay leaf.

  4. *Lemon-pumpkin soda: Add 12 oz pumpkin puree (use canned or roast seeded pumpkin at 350° for 45 minutes and puree in a food processor), 4 oz fresh lemon juice and 2 oz water into a soda siphon and charge with 1 CO2 cartridge.