We suggest five cocktail recipes to make your Halloween day even more “scary”.
The day is approaching when everyone takes the opportunity to disguise, decorate and celebrate a bit of everything in honor of fear. So if you plan to party at home, here are five cocktail recipes with a spirit of every kind for all tastes, plus a bonus of two mocktails!
Based on Tequila – Black Magic Margaritas
Ingredients
1/3 cup sandy brown sugar
2 cups of ice
120 ml silver tequila
60 ml of Triple Sec
1/2 cup lemon juice
Red, green and blue dyes
Garnish
Lemon slices for decoration
Preparation
- Rub lemon on the edge of the glass and add brown sugar all over the edge of the glass, sinking the glass into the sugar.
- Divide tequila, triple sec and lemon juice into two glasses. Stir to combine. Add colorant until you get the black color.
- Add ice and decorate with lemon.
Gin-based – Jekyll and Gin
Ingredients
90 ml of gin
15 ml lemon juice
1 teaspoon grenadine
1 handful of ice
Tonic water
Preparation
- Mix the gin, lemon juice and grenadine in a cocktail shaker. Shake, and pour the mixture into a glass with ice.
- Add tonic water over the preparation and decorate with a translucent straw.
Bourbon-based – Haunted Graveyard – by sprinklesandsprouts
Ingredients
Bourbon
Maple Syrup
Fresh orange
Bitter
Rosemary branches
Ice
Preparation
- Add the bourbon, syrup, orange, bitter and rosemary branches with ice to the shaker.
- Shake and mix and filter in the glass. Decorate with the rosemary sprig and burn it a little.
Vodka–Based – Martini Kiss of the Vampire
Ingredients
45 ml vodka
7.5 ml raspberry liqueur
45 ml of sparkling wine
Garnish
Red sugar for glass rim
Preparation
- Sink the edge of the glass into the sugar.
- Add the vodka and half of the raspberry liqueur in the glass.
- Add the wine to the top of the mixture.
- Add the remaining liquor on the back of a teaspoon to make it float in the drink. Enjoy!
Vodka-based – Tripping Scientist
Ingredients
30 ml vodka
7.5 ml flavored liqueur
45 ml lemon and lime soda as Sprite
Preparation
- Add the vodka and liqueur in a cocktail shaker with ice.
- Shake for 10 seconds or until cold.
- Pour mixture into shots.
- Finish by adding the soda to the top.
Mocktail – Blood Orange Soda
Ingredients
5 parts club soda
Bunch of Mint
Lime
Blood orange wedge
1 part orange blood syrup: mix equal parts of blood orange juice mixed with sugar in a blender.
Preparation
- Rub the inside of your glass with mint.
- Add ingredients into the glass and stir.
- Finish with a squeeze of lime and garnish with a blood orange wedge.
Mocktail – Pumpkin Punch (by thisvivaciouslife.com)
Ingredients
1 cup apple cider
1 cup orange juice
Orange zest
1/2 cup pureed pumpkin
Simple syrup
Spices
Preparation
- Whisk together cider, orange juice and orange zest, and pureed pumpkin in a pan on low heat.
- Add a couple tablespoons of simple syrup and spices in a cheesecloth. Keep cooking.
- Heat then remove spices.
- Whisk well.
- Serve hot.
- *You can add dry ice to add an incredible smoke effect.
Don’t drink and drive. Enjoy responsibly.