Halloween cocktails are a fundamental part of Halloween, if not more important than your own family’s wellbeing. The best cocktails can be easily turned into Molotov cocktails. Grab your blacklight and body paint, get the bowl of candy that has lots of black licorice to deter everyone from diving into it, and turn on the scary music. We’re going to look at some A+ drinks that a necromancer would die for, resurrect themselves, then die again for.
Blood Orange Mojito
The recipe:
3 cups of Blood Orange Italian Sparkling Soda
3 cups of light rum
3 cups of ice cubes
1 large bunch of mint leaves, no stems (about 40 leaves)
2 limes sliced very thin (one is for garnish)
Very Bloody Mary
The recipe:
4.5 cl Vodka
9 cl Tomato juice
1.5 cl Lemon juice
2 to 3 dashes of Worcestershire Sauce
Tabasco
Celery salt
Pepper
Pork blood (traditionally used in black pudding)
Septic Tank Espresso Martini
The recipe:
5 cl Vodka
1 cl Kahlúa
Sugar syrup
1 short strong Espresso
Star anise
Devil’s Margarita
The recipe:
1½ oz Blanco tequila
1 oz Fresh lime juice
¾ oz Simple syrup
½ oz Red wine
Corpse Reviver #2
The recipe:
¾ oz gin
¾ oz lemon juice
¾ oz Cointreau (curaçao)
¾ oz Kina Lillet, Amber Vermouth or Cocchi Americano
1 dash absinthe
Blood and Sand
The recipe:
¾ oz blended scotch
¾ oz blood orange juice
¾ oz sweet vermouth
¾ oz Cherry Heering
Vampiro
The recipe:
cl tequila
7 cl tomato juice
3 cl fresh orange juice
1 cl fresh lime juice
1 teaspoon clear honey
Half slice onion finely chopped
Few slices of fresh chili peppers
Few drops of Worcestershire Sauce
Salt
Whiskey Sour
The recipe:
4.5 cl (3 parts) bourbon whiskey
3 cl (2 parts) fresh lemon juice
1.5 cl (1 part) Gomme syrup
dash egg white (optional)
Transylvanian Țuică
The recipe:
8 cl Tuica
4 cl Apricot liqueur
2 cl Lemon juice
2 cl Tonka bean syrup
2 dash(es) Creole Bitters
Black Martini
The recipe:
2 ounces vodka
1 oz blue curaçao
½ ounce black raspberry liqueur
Garnish: lemon twist
Food coloring
Halloween Old-Fashioned
The recipe:
2 ounces Bourbon
10-12 dashes Dark Chocolate Bitters
2 strips of orange peel
A squeeze of fresh orange juice
1 Amarena cherry or Luxardo cherry, plus more for garnish
1 teaspoon cherry syrup (from cherries)
½ ounce simple syrup, optional
large ice cube
dry ice
Dark ‘n’ Stormy
The recipe:
6 cl dark rum
10 cl ginger beer
Pitch Red Manhattan
The recipe:
5 cl Rye Whiskey
2 cl Red Vermouth
1 dash Angostura Bitters
Red food coloring
Flaming Dragon’s Blood
The recipe:
1 ¾jigger of Bacardi Superior rum2 fl oz
1jigger thyme and raspberry syrup1.5 fl oz
½jigger freshly squeezed lemon juice¾ fl oz
2ice cubes
⅛of a tsp of white luster dustor red luster dust (optional)
The whiskey is floated on top of the Irish cream in a shot glass, and the shot glass is then dropped into the stout (it will curdle if you do not drink it in a timely manner)
Black Velvet
The recipe:
1 part stout
1 part champagne
Spooky White Russian
The recipe:
2 oz vodka
1 oz Kahlúa
3-4 oz cereal milk
Cereal sugar, for rim
The Witch’s Heart
The recipe:
1jiggerapple brandy or apple vodkachilled
1tspgrenadine
2jiggers Homemade Blackberry Shimmery Liqueur
Powdered dry iceoptional
Martini glass to serve
Ghostly Long Island Iced Tea
The recipe:
1 ½ cups Coke
¼ cup simple syrup
3 small packages lemon jello
¼ cup vodka
¼ cup gin
¼ cup rum
¼ cup tequila
¼ cup Triple Sec
2 cans of coconut milk, chilled overnight
1 cup powdered sugar
1 food-safe black marker
Monster Mash Margarita
The recipe:
2 oz Silver Tequila
4 oz Blood Orange Juice
Simple Syrup- to taste
1 oz Lime Juice
Ice
fresh rosemary sprigs for garnish
slices of blood orange and lime for garnish
gummy eyeball candy skewered on stir sticks
Zombie
The recipe:
1 1/2 oz Puerto Rican golden rum
1 1/2 oz Jamaican rum
1 oz demerara 151 rum
1/2 oz Donn’s Mix (2:1 mix of grapefruit juice & cinnamon syrup)
1/2 oz velvet falernum
3/4 oz lime juice
1/4 oz grenadine
2 dashes absinthe
1 dash angostura bitters
Godfather (Horse Head)
The recipe:
3.5 cl Scotch
3.5 cl Amaretto
garnish with something that looks like a bloody severed horse head
Screwdriver
The recipe:
4 Tbsp corn syrup
Black food coloring
4 oz grenadine
8 oz orange juice
4 oz vodka
Halloween cocktails are great for parties. If you have any cocktail ideas that you would like to share, feel free to drop some words in the comments section below!