This is the time of year for pie and soup -- and pie-flavored cocktails can combine delicious taste with the ease of consumption offered by soup.
It turns out pie-inspired booze is as American as you-know-what. There's the Baked Apple Pie Cocktail (coconut rum, apple juice and Pucker liqueur) and an Apple Pie Shooter (apple brandy, apple cider, whipped cream and nutmeg). While both probably don't taste exactly like Mom used to make, they're certain to be sweet.
If you want to pass out from decadence, the recipe for a Slice of the Pie (Canadian mist, apple juice, sour apple Schnapps, butterscotch Schnapps and cinnamon Schnapps) should do the trick.
Apple isn't the only fall flavor -- pumpkin gets the cocktail treatment as well.
There's a pumpkin martini (vodka, vanilla syrup, pumpkin liqueur, pumpkin filling, whipped cream and a cinnamon stick). If you like infused vodka, California-based Modern Spirits makes a pumpkin pie artisan vodka. It's said to contain everything but the pie and crust, meaning it's not just pumpkin in a bottle.
If you feel compelled to truly experiment (as if the previous cocktails did not suggest a leap of faith) you can always reinvent a classic: the pineapple upside-down cake cocktail (pineapple and vanilla-bean infused cocktail, grenadine, pineapple juice, pineapple and a maraschino cherry).
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