Recipe

All Treat, No Trick: The Pumpkin Patchwacker

Pumpkin ice cream and pie spice inspire an autumnal spin on the boozy Bushwacker cocktail

pumpkin pie cocktail

Photo: Katherine Cobbs


If you’re one to disregard pumpkin spice anything, give this dreamy, creamy cocktail a chance. It’s a delicious autumn interpretation of the beloved Bushwacker, that spirited rum-and-liqueur-infused milkshake named for a dog. Swapping in pumpkin pie ice cream (readily available in grocery stores this time of year) for the usual vanilla and adding a dose of RumChata (a horchata-flavored cream liqueur) to the medley of spiced rum, dark rum, and kahlua amps up the warm spice notes of this decadently drinkable but potent shake. If you want to gild the lily, drizzle some caramel sauce around the glasses before filling them, and finish with a sprinkle of pie spice on the surface of each drink.

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Pumpkin Patchwacker

Yield: 4 8-oz. servings

Ingredients

    • Half ice

    • ½ cup (4 oz.) cream of coconut

    • ⅓ cup (3 oz.) spiced rum

    • ⅓ cup (3 oz.) dark rum

    • ¼ cup (2 oz.) RumChata

    • ¼ cup (2 oz.) amaretto

    • 4 cups pumpkin pie ice cream

    • 1 cup milk

    • Caramel sauce and pumpkin pie spice for garnish (optional)

Preparation

  1. Fill a blender halfway with ice. Add cream of coconut, spiced rum, dark rum, RumChata, and amaretto. Cover with lid and process until slushy. Add ice cream and milk and process until smooth. Pour into glasses. Garnish, if desired.


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