6 Cocktail Concoctions To Serve At Your Halloween Bash

Pour out one or two of these easy to make spooky drinks at your Halloween party this year. No matter what’s your Halloween guests’ favorite poison, these devilishly delightful drinks are guaranteed to raise spirits at your monster mash. What’s better than frightening your guests with how delicious your drinks are?!?

1. Witches’ Brew

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Pineapple and cranberry juice give this drink its harvest-moon hue that’s sure to be a party-perfect punch!

Recipe:

Ingredients:

2 oz. mixed pineapple and cranberry juice

2 oz. 7-Up or Sprite

1-1/4 oz. shot Malibu Coconut Rum

Preparation:

Mix juices and 7-Up or Sprite in a highball glass. Pour shot of rum down the side of the glass right before drinking.

2. Morgue-A-Rita

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A Halloween ooey-gooey take on a summer favorite with a few twists and a slimy finish that promise to ensure your guests have a frightfully good time at your Halloween party.

Recipe:

Ingredients

Goo:

1/4 cup light corn syrup

green food coloring

Cocktail:

1/2 cup fresh lime juice

1 cup club soda

3/4 cup tequila

3 ounces triple sec

4 cherries

4 teaspoons maraschino cherry syrup

Yield: 4 cocktails

Instructions

1: Mix together 1/4 cup light corn syrup with green food dye. Tip: Start with just a little coloring and add until you get the desired color then set aside.

2: Place glasses in the freezer to frost them. When frozen, dip each glass into the green syrup and invert to allow the syrup to drip slightly. Return glasses to the freezer to set.

3: Insert stirrers through maraschino cherries for each drink and set aside.

4: Juice the limes and strain if desired to remove pulp (Image 1).

5: Combine tequila, triple sec and lime juice in a cocktail shaker with ice and shake until very cold (Image 2).

6: Pour one teaspoon of the maraschino cherry syrup into the bottom of each glass. Add a cherry and stirrer to each glass.

7: Carefully pour the margarita mixture into each glass till about 3/4 full. Tip: Pour very slowly to avoid disturbing the syrup on the bottom.

8: Top off each drink with 1/4 cup club soda and serve immediately.

3. Poison Apple Cocktail

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This magic potion has just the right amount of sweet and sour to please any wicked witch!

Recipe:

Ingredients:

1 ounce vanilla vodka

1/2 ounce orange liqueur

1 ounce sour apple liqueur or schnapps

1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice

1-2 ounces champagne

ice

green sugar for rim

light corn syrup (optional)

Yield: 1 cocktail

Instructions:

1. Lightly dampen the rim of a cocktail glass and dip in green sugar. Set aside. Tip: For better adhesion, dilute two tablespoons of light corn syrup with a few drops of water. Use your fingertips to apply the syrup to the rim of the glass.

Place vanilla vodka, orange liqueur, sour apple liqueur and lemon juice in a cocktail shaker filled 2/3 with ice. Shake until jet cold (about 20 seconds). Strain the drink into the cocktail glass and top with chilled champagne. Tip: Serving the drink with dry ice makes a dramatic presentation, but use only a small piece and be sure the dry ice has dissolved completely before drinking. Never allow your skin to come in contact with dry ice.

4. Black Magic Cocktail

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Cast a spell over your Halloween party guests with this bewitching beverage!

Recipe:

Ingredients

1/4 cup ice

1/2 cup orange juice

1 1/2 ounces black vodka

1/2 ounce triple sec

orange wedge, for garnish

Instructions

1. In a cocktail shaker, add orange juice and triple sec over ice. Shake well, and strain into a glass.

2. Using the back of a spoon, pour black vodka slowly into a glass so that the vodka sits atop the orange juice and triple sec mix.

3. Carefully dip one edge of the orange wedge into the vodka for a spooky presentation, and sit the wedge on the rim of the glass.

5. Black Widow

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This shot will get guests with its venomous bite! You can also rim the glass with red sugar crystals for added spooky party detail.

Recipe:

Ingredients

1 1/2 ounces black vodka, chilled

1/2 ounces cranberry juice, chilled

1 cherry, for garnish

red sugar crystals, for rim

Instructions

1. Fill a small cocktail glass with ice.

2. Rim glass with red sugar crystals.

3. Pour cranberry juice over ice, and gently layer black vodka over juice.

4. Garnish with a cherry.

6. Zombie Gut Punch

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The bloody hue of this drink will pack a bitter punch with your party guests!

Recipe:

Ingredients:

10 ounces vodka

5 ounces triple sec

2 ounces bitters

1 cup fresh-squeezed blood orange juice

2 cups black cherry soda

Grenadine, for rim

Preparation:

In a large punch bowl filled with ice, pour vodka, triple sec, bitters, blood orange juice and black cherry soda. Laugh as though you are an evil zombie and stir. Rim each glass with grenadine before filling with punch mixture, then serve.