Get Ready For Pumpkin Everything, Like Pumpkin Cocktails

Pumpkin spice. You can eat it, you can drink it, and it is certainly not just for pie and coffee drinks. We have some cocktail ideas that are just perfect for "pumpkin spice season."

Check out these pumpkin cocktail recipes that will have you ready to enjoy the season a whole lot more. You may even want to bring out the 1966 classic, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, and toast the Peanuts gang as they celebrate Halloween. We might not be able to help Linus find the Great Pumpkin, but we can sure help you enjoy watching this American classic with a little Pumpkin classic of your own.

7 Pumpkin Cocktail Recipes to Try

Pumpkin Old-Fashioned

• 1 1/2 oz. bourbon
• 1/2 oz. Grand Marnier
• 2 tablespoons pumpkin puree
• 1 oz. maple syrup
• Garnish: orange peel twist or rosemary spring

Combine pumpkin puree, bourbon, syrup, Grand Marnier and bitters in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake well, strain into a chilled old-fashioned glass filled with ice. Garnish with a rosemary sprig or orange peel.

Pumpkin Spice Margarita

• 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
• 2 tablespoons fresh orange juice, plus more to coat the glass rim
• 2 oz. tequila
• 1 oz. Cointreau
• 2 teaspoons pumpkin puree

On a small plate, whisk together the sugar and pumpkin pie spice. Coat the rim of a margarita glass with orange juice and dip it in the sugar mixture to coat. Set aside. In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, combine the remaining ounce of orange juice, tequila, Cointreau, and pumpkin puree. Cover and shake vigorously. Strain into the prepared margarita glass.

• 2 oz. chardonnay
• 1 oz. cognac
• ½ oz. simple syrup
• ½ oz. apple cider
• 1 teaspoon of spiced pumpkin pie mix

• 3 oz. pumkin spice vodka
• 1 oz. Amaretto
• Garnish: toasted pumpkin seeds