6 Halloween Cocktails To Help You Celebrate Spooky Season
Halloween is right around the corner, which means it’s time for some Halloween cocktails. Halloween party drinks offer the opportunity to go a few different directions. Halloween is known for candy, so it’s the prefect time to break out the Candy Corn simple syrup (yes, it’s a thing) and make some sweet drinks for the crew. Since we’re just getting into fall, it’s also a fun time to kick off your fall cocktail game with some crowd-pleasing drinks with fall spices and darker spirits than you might have been sipping on this summer.
Not sure what to mix up? Whether you’re having a few friends over for a Halloween party and new a few cocktails or are just looking for something interesting to sip on while you’re passing out candy on your front porch this year, here are a few great Halloween cocktail options from spirits brands and bartenders.
Blood Orange Mule
Ingredients:
- Makers Mark 1.5 oz
- Amaretto 0.5 oz
- Lime Juice 0.75 oz
- Simple Syrup 0.25
- Fever Tree Blood Orange Ginger Beer 3oz
- Garnish Blood Orange wedge
Make the Cocktail:
- Add Makers Mark, Amaretto, lime juice, and simple syrup in a copper mug
- Fill half mug with crushed ice and swizzle with a swizzle stick, add 3 oz of Fever Tree Blood Orange Ginger Beer and then fill up the mug with crushed ice
- Garnish with a fresh blood orange wedge
Hornitos Potion De Muerto
Ingredients:
- 2 parts Hornitos Black Barrel® Tequila
- ¾ part orange juice
- ¾ part lemon juice
- ¾ part agave
- 2 dashes orange bitters
- ½ part beet juice
Preparation:
Serve in a tall glass over crushed ice with a beet juice float – the beet juice will slowly float down the glass through the crushed ice, making it look like blood dropping down. Garnish with an orange slice.
Apple, Gin & Ginger Pitcher
Ingredients:
- 200ml (7 fl. oz.) Tanqueray London Dry Gin
- 2 lemons, cut into quarters
- 150ml (5 fl. oz.) good-quality apple juice
- 650ml (22 fl. oz.) Fever-Tree Ginger Ale
- Mint sprig, to garnish
- Apple wedges, to garnish
Make the Cocktail:
- Fill a pitcher three-quarters full with ice cubes. Pour over the gin.
- Squeeze over the lemon quarters, then drop them into the pitcher.
- Add the apple juice and top up with the ginger ale.
- Garnish with a mint sprig and apple wedges.
Spooky-Tini
Ingredients:
- 1oz Bourbon
- 1oz Monin Candy Corn Syrup
- 1/2oz Irish Cream Liqueur
- 2oz Half & Half
Make the Cocktail:
Shake and Strain / Up
- Chill serving glass.
- Pour ingredients into mixing glass with 2/3 ice in order listed.
- Cap, shake and strain into chilled serving glass.
- Add garnish and serve
Drink of the Dead
From Hilton Cancun, an All-Inclusive resort
Ingredients:
- 2 oz. Pox (corn liquor)
- 1 oz. lemon juice
- 1 oz. Grand Marnier
- 2 oz. apple juice
- 1 oz. cranberry juice
- 4 oz. red fruits jam
- Dash tortilla salt
- 1 slice, dehydrated pineapple
- 1 piece, rosemary
Make the Cocktail:
Add the Pox, lemon, Grand Marnier, apple juice, cranberry Juice and red fruits jam to a mixing glass filled with ice and stir until well-chilled. Salt the rim of a glass with the tortilla salt. Percolate the liquid twice and pour it in the glass. Garnish with pineapple and rosemary.
Blue Cotton Candy-Tini
Ingredients:
- 1 1/2oz Vanilla Vodka
- 1oz Monin Blue Cotton Candy Syrup
- 2oz Half & Half
Make the cocktail:
- Chill serving glass.
- Pour ingredients into mixing glass with 2/3 ice in order listed.
- Cap, shake and strain into chilled serving glass.
- Add garnish and serve.
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