This smashing pumpkin cocktail is essentially a pumpkin butter and bourbon smash! It's pumpkin butter mixed with bourbon and pumpkin spice sage syrup. The pumpkin and sage are such a perfect mix, and the sage provides some delightful earthiness.
Pumpkin is one of the best fall flavors, and it's really celebrated in this cocktail. I really like using pumpkin butter in cocktails, and I think it delivers the perfect pumpkin spice flavor. This pumpkin spice espresso martini and this pumpkin spice are old fashioned, but they use pumpkin butter to flavor the drink, and they are both so delicious.
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Key Ingredients:
Bourbon: Bourbon is the key ingredient in any bourbon smash, so using the best one that goes well with the pumpkin butter is key. A sweet but well-balanced bourbon is my favorite. I used Woodford Reserve for this version.
Pumpkin Butter: pumpkin butter is a pumpkin that has been cooked down with different types of spices and sugars; to me, it is essential pumpkin spice.
Sage and pumpkin spice: these are used to flavor the syrup, the sage especially adds some delightful flavor to the cocktail.
See recipe card for quantities.
How to make this recipe:
- Step 1: Start by making the pumpkin spice and sage syrup by combining 1 cup water, 1 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon pumpkin spice, and 2 springs of fresh sage in a small pot. Cook until the sugar has melted, and then let cool.
- Step 2: Next add ice to a mixing glass then top with 1 tablespoon pumpkin butter, 1 ½ ounces bourbon, and ½ ounce pumpkin spice sage syrup.
- Step 3: Stir to combine then pour into a rocks glass with ice.
- Step 4: Garnish with fresh sage and enjoy!
These ingredients do/don't stand up well to freezing for X days/weeks/months.
Expert Tips:
Suggested Barware: Use a jigger to measure your bourbon and syrup accurately.
Store the remaining syrup in a sealed container in a refrigerator for up to two weeks.
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Smashing Pumpkin Cocktail
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Total Time: 40 minutes
- Yield: 1 cocktail 1x
- Category: cocktail
- Method: stirred
- Cuisine: american
Description
This smashing pumpkin cocktail is essentially a pumpkin butter and bourbon smash! It's pumpkin butter mixed with bourbon and pumpkin spice sage syrup.
Ingredients
For the syrup:
- 1 cup water
- 1 sugar
- 2 springs sage
- 1 tsp pumpkin spice
Cocktail
- 1 tablespoon pumpkin butter
- 1 ½ ounce bourbon
- ½ ounce sage pumpkin spice syrup
Anonymous says
im in a pinch and dont have fresh sage - do you think dried would work to get the aroma/flavor?