7. Headless Horseman

A tiki take on pumpkin

The legend of the Headless Horseman is widespread in many cultures. For example, in Ireland, there's tales about the dulachán ("dark man"), a demonic fairy who rides a black horse while carrying its own decapitated head under its arm and wields a human corpse spine as a whip. Any person's name he calls out will die. Neat!

Anyway, here's a tiki drink! This Halloween-coded pumpkin colada comes from a Brooklyn bar, Leyenda, and features Brazil's favorite spirit, cachaça. If you're unfamiliar with cachaça, white rum could work in this drink, but give cachaça a chance. It's a fermented sugarcane spirit so it lends itself well to the tiki diaspora.

Headless Horseman

Ingredients

2 oz. cachaça
1/2 oz. allspice dram
1 1/2 oz. pumpkin pie purée
3/4 oz. coconut cream
1/2 oz. cinnamon syrup
1/2 oz. fresh lime juice
1/2 oz. fresh orange juice
1 cup of ice, to blend

Method

• Combine ingredients in a blender with ice.

• Blend until smooth.

• Pour into a chilled glass of your choice.

• Optional: douse sugar cube with high-proof rum, place in a used lime rind half, set on fire, then sprinkle with cinnamon.