Countdown To Halloween With These 14 Spooky Sips
These cocktails are no tricks and all treats.
With Halloween 2 weeks away, what better way to get in the spirit than with some spooky cocktails? Check out the roundup of potions below!
Preparation
Shake over ice, strain into a glass rimmed with chocolate sauce and dipped in cacao nibs.
Top with 2 oz. of Rosa Regale Red.
Bloody Party Punch
Ingredients
4 oz. Fraser & Thompson North American Whiskey
1 cup Pomegranate Juice
Zest of 1 Orange
1/2 cup freshly squeezed Orange Juice
1 (750 ml) bottle Prosecco or Sparkling Wine, chilled
Arils from 1 Pomegranate
Preparation
In a large pitcher, combine Fraser & Thompson, pomegranate juice, orange zest and orange juice.
Chill until ready to serve.
Just before serving, add ice to the punch bowl and pour over the contents of the pitcher.
Top with Prosecco and pomegranate arils.
Preparation
Add ingredients into an ice filled mixing glass and stir to combine/chill.
Strain into a Double Old Fashioned rocks glass containing a large rock of ice, and garnish with expressed grapefruit peel.
Graveyard Smash
Ingredients
2 oz. Empress 1908 Cucumber Lemon Gin
¾ oz. Fresh Lemon Juice
¾ oz. Simple Syrup
4 Mint Leaves
3 Cantaloupe Cubes
Preparation
In a shaker tin, muddle cantaloupe cubes with the liquid ingredients.
Add mint leaves and lightly press to express oils.
Shake over ice and strain over crushed ice.
Garnish with mint sprig and cantaloupe balls.
Ilegal Mezcal Margarita de Granada
Ingredients
2 oz. Ilegal Mezcal Joven
1 oz. Lime
1 oz. Agave Syrup
.5 oz. Pomegranate Juice
Preparation
Add mezcal, lime, agave syrup and pomegranate juice to a shaker, shake until chilled and strain into a rocks glass with fresh ice.
Garnish with pomegranate seeds and lime wheel.
Italicus Spritz
Ingredients
1 part Italicus Rosolio Di Bergamotto
2 parts Prosecco
Preparation
Combine one part Italicus with two parts Prosecco or Champagne over ice in a wine glass.
Add garnish with three green olives to balance the floral aromas with a touch of saltiness.
Kraken Bones Punch
Ingredients
2 oz. Kraken Black Spiced Rum
3 oz. Pineapple Juice
Splash of Grenadine
Preparation
Combine all ingredients over ice in a shaker.
Dump into glass and garnish with cherry and bone-shaped candies.
Proper No. Twelve Apple Slime Shots
Ingredients
3 oz. Proper No. Twelve Irish Apple
3 oz. Peach Schnapps
3 oz. Sour Mix
Splash of Lemon Lime soda
Preparation
Pour all ingredients into a Boston Shaker filled with ice.
Shake and strain into 4 shot glasses.
Savoia Negroni
Ingredients
2 parts Savoia Americano
1 part London Dry Gin
4-5 Ice Cubes
Preparation
Fill rocks glass with ice cubes.
Add the ingredients and stir gently.
Garnish with green and red grapes.
Preparation
Served on the rocks.
Garnish with a dehydrated blood orange wheel.
Preparation
Combine all ingredients inside watermelon.
Add ice, stir and pour into glass.
Garnish and enjoy.
Witching Hour Martini
Ingredients
1 oz. Glendalough Wild Rose Irish Gin
1 oz. Cocchi Rosa Aperitivo Americano
1/2 oz. Simple Syrup
1/2 oz. Fresh Lime Juice
2 oz. Dry Sparkling wine
Preparation
Shake the first four ingredients with ice, then double strain into a chilled glass.
Top with chilled sparkling wine.
Garnish with dried rose buds (or any edible flowers).
Preparation
Combine Woodford Reserve, lemon juice, and the Woodford Reserve x Williams Sonoma Spiced Apple Cocktail mixer to a shaker tin.
Shake with ice until chilled and double strain into a flute glass.
Garnish with floating cranberries or apple slices.
Tequila Herradura Reposado Margarita
Ingredients
2 oz. Tequila Herradura Reposado
1 oz. Fresh Squeezed Lime Juice
1/2 – 3/4 oz. Agave Nectar
Preparation
Add all ingredients to a shaker.
Add ice and shake vigorously.
Strain into a margarita glass half-rimmed with gold-dusted salt over a large ice cube.
Garnish with gold-dusted lime.
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