RECIPE

Puente Punch

  • ACTIVE:
  • TOTAL TIME: 5 MIN
  • SERVINGS: makes 1 drink

A fantastic dessert drink, this creamy cocktail is named after the late timbale-banging band leader Tito Puente, who popularized Latin music around the world. Cyrus Keyhari uses aged Dominican rum to give depth to what he calls "a grown-up Orange Julius."

  • ACTIVE:
  • TOTAL TIME: 5 MIN
  • SERVINGS: makes 1 drink

Ingredients

  • Ingredients
    1. 1 lime wedge
    2. Granulated sugar
    3. Ice
    4. 1/4 cup fresh orange juice
    5. 2 tablespoons sweetened condensed milk, at room temperature
    6. 1/8 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
    7. 1/2 teaspoon sugar
    8. 1/4 cup amber rum, preferably Brugal Anejo Dominican Rum

Directions

  1. Moisten the outer rim of a highball glass with the lime wedge and coat with sugar. Fill the glass and cocktail shaker with ice. Add the 1/2 teaspoon of sugar, the orange juice, condensed milk, vanilla extract and amber rum; shake well. Strain into the prepared glass.