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.

 

VodkaBased – 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.

 

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