Halloween is just a few days away, which means you need to begin planning if you haven’t already. There’s so many different ways to celebrate. Maybe you want to host a party. Or maybe you want to stay in and carve pumpkins and eat fun snacks. Either way, awesome! You’ll still need some drinks to fit the theme though, which is where these great Halloween cocktails come in handy.
Sleepy Hollow
Ingredients:
- 1 orange
- 1 sprig rosemary
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1 dash cinnamon
- 1 cinnamon sugar
- 1/4 cup pomegranate or cranberry juice
- 1 sparkling water
- 2 dashes bitters, orange
- 2 ounces tequila or mezcal
Instructions:
Make the honey syrup (water, honey, rosemary, and orange zest). Rim each glass in cinnamon sugar for an extra sweet touch. Shake it all together, strain into a glass, and finish with the smoking sprig of rosemary.
Zombie
Ingredients:
- 15ml Gold Rum
- 15ml Light rum
- 15ml Dark rum
- 5ml Velbet Falernum
- 50ml Grapefruit juice
- 50ml pineapple juice
- 5ml Orgeat
- 10ml Grenadine
- 10ml Fresh lime juice.
Instructions:
Shake all ingredients together. Float 5ml overproof Wray and Nephew rum, garnish with a little touch of cinnamon and lime wedge.
Halloween Margarita
Ingredients:
- 25ml triple sec
- 25ml tequila
- 1-2 limes
- 60ml sugar syrup
- Black sea salt for the rim
- Orange coloring
Instructions:
Make the sugar syrup (add equal parts sugar and water, dissolve the sugar, put in fridge to cool). Crush up a handful of black sea salt and spread over a plate. Cut a wedge of lime and slit it down the middle. Wipe it around the rim of a Margarita glass and then dip each section of the rim circumference into the salt. Squeeze the fresh lime. Add ice, tequila, and remaining ingredients into a cocktail shaker and shake for about 15-20 seconds. Strain into the prepared glass.
Bride of Frankenstein
Ingredients:
- 2 oz 21Seeds Grapefruit Hibiscus Tequila
- 1/2 oz lemon juice
- 1/2 oz simple syrup
- club soda
- 1 cube sugar
- 8 blackberries
- Crushed ice
Instructions:
In a glass, muddle 5 blackberries with 1 sugar cube. Fill the glass with crushed ice. In a shaker, shake the remaining ingredients
(besides the club soda) with a few pieces of crushed ice. Strain into glass and top with club soda. Garnish with 3 blackberries.
The Half-Blood Prince
Ingredients:
- 1/2 lemon juice
- 1/4 cup pomegranate juice
- 1 pomegranate arils
- 1 1/2 oz bourbon
- 1/2 oz raspberry liquor
- 1 tsp maple syrup
Instructions:
Combine and shake the bourbon with pomegranate juice, raspberry liquor, lemon, and a touch of maple syrup. Pour the drink in a glass and garnish with pomegranate arils and an ice cube.
