12 Wickedly Fun Cocktails for Your Halloween Bash
Get ready to sip your way through the spooky season!
From eerie punches and mystical martinis to dessert-style treats and smoky sippers, these Halloween cocktails bring playful frights, bold flavors, and a dash of magic to every gathering.
Whether you’re hosting a haunted happy hour or treating yourself to a seasonal indulgence, there’s a bewitched drink here for everyone.
In My Boo Era
by Bridget Albert – Senior Director of External Communications & Host of the Served Up Podcast at Southern Glazer’s
Ingredients
1 ½ oz. Aged Rum
½ oz. Blue Curaçao
½ oz. Blackberry Liqueur
¾ oz. Fresh Lime Juice
½ oz. Pineapple Juice
4 dashes Angostura Bitters
Optional: Edible Purple Shimmer Dust
Preparation
Add all ingredients to an ice filled shaker.
Shake well and strain into a chilled coupe glass.
Garnish with a blackberry on a pick or an eyeball gummy candy for an eerie effect.
Preparation
Add all ingredients to an ice filled shaker.
Shake well and strain over a large ice cube in a rocks glass.
Garnish with a plastic spider wrapped in a lemon peel.
This punch is bubbling with spooky fun! Eyeball ice, black sugar rims, and a fruity fizz of black cherry, blueberry acai, and lemonade make it a Halloween crowd-pleaser.
Seagram’s Escape’s Monster Mash Punch
by Seagram’s Escapes
Ingredients
3 cans Seagram’s Escapes Black Cherry Fizz*
3 cans Seagram’s Escapes Blueberry Acai Lemonade*
1 quart Lemonade
Orange Slices and Blueberries
Garnish: Black Sugar
Optional: Eyeball Ice
Preparation
Make “eyeball ice” by freezing blueberries in round ice molds.
Combine Seagram’s Escapes with lemonade in a cauldron or bowl.
Add blueberries, orange slices, and eyeball ice.
Serve in black sugar rimmed glasses.
Additional Notes
*Available in Seagram’s Escapes slim can variety pack
A spirited twist on the classic whiskey highball, this cocktail blends Japanese whiskey, spiced pear liqueur, and ginger beer, with a dash of bitters for autumn flavor. Topped with a ghost-shaped marshmallow, it’s spooky, sweet, and totally Instagram-worthy.
Preparation
Pour whiskey and pear liqueur into a tall glass with filled with ice.
Add a dash of Angostura bitters, top with ginger beer.
Garnish with your favorite ghost marshmallow.
Hauntingly elegant and dripping with drama, The Blood Moon mixes Basil Hayden Bourbon with Château Élan Cabernet, vermouth, pomegranate, and orange bitters. With a blood-red rim and skewered blackberries, this cocktail is moody magic in a glass.
Preparation
Prepare the blood rim by mixing honey with red food coloring and applying it to the edge of a chilled glass.
Combine all ingredients in a shaker with ice and stir gently until well chilled.
Strain into the prepared glass and garnish with skewered blackberries.
Dessert in a glass! This creamy, indulgent cocktail blends vanilla and chocolate vodka with Kahlua and vanilla ice cream, then tops it with a house-made toasted s’more. No tricks—just a rich, delicious treat for Halloween sweet-tooths.
Preparation
Combine all ingredients into a shaker with ice.
Shake until completely mixed.
Rim chilled martini glass with cocoa.
Garnish with a s’more.
Bright, zesty, and a little mischievous, this tequila-based cocktail combines grapefruit, pineapple, and Aperol for a wickedly smooth sip. Rimmed with black sugar and served with your favorite spooky garnish, it’s Halloween in a glass.
Jack’s Elixir
by Bungalows Key Largo
Ingredients
1.5 oz. Casa Dragones Blanco Tequila
1 oz. Aperol
1 oz. Fresh Grapefruit
1 oz. Fresh Pineapple
0.5 oz. Fresh Lime
0.25 oz. Agave
Preparation
Rim glass with black sugar and add ice.
Add ingredients to mixing glass and shake.
Pour over fresh ice.
Add a spooky garnish of choice.
Candy corn, but make it boozy! These layered shooters are a playful mix of tropical rum, gelatin, and sweetened condensed milk, bursting with color and fun. Perfect for Halloween parties where the treats are just as important as the tricks.
Photo by Vanessa Palmisano
Candy Corn Shooters
by Jennifer Bryant
Ingredients
1.5 cups boiling Water
1 (3 ounce) package Lemon Flavored gelatin mix
1 (3 ounce) package Orange Flavored gelatin mix
1 (0.25 ounce) envelope unflavored gelatin
2 cups Kōloa Kauaʻi Gold Rum
Ice Cubes
2 Tbsp warm Water
1 (14 ounce) can Sweetened Condensed Milk
½ cup Kōloa Kauaʻi Spiced Rum
Glassware: Shot Glasses
Preparation
Dissolve lemon gelatin in ¾ cup boiling water.
In a measuring cup, combine 1 cup rum with enough ice to make 1¼ cups total.
Stir into gelatin until slightly thickened, removing any unmelted ice.
Fill shot glasses ⅓ full with the lemon mixture.
Refrigerate until set, about 90 minutes.
Repeat the process with orange gelatin and the remaining 1 cup rum + ice.
Pour over the set lemon layer.
Chill until firm, about 90 minutes.
Dissolve unflavored gelatin in 2 Tbsp warm water.
Stir in sweetened condensed milk and ½ cup rum. Pour over the orange layer.
Refrigerate until fully set, at least 30 minutes before serving.
A spellbinding violet cocktail that’s equal parts enchanting and sophisticated. Floral gin, crème de violette, Genepy, and butterfly pea flower syrup cast a magical glow, finished with a wheat sprig and optional edible shimmer for extra sorcery.
Wicked Potion
Ingredients
1.5 oz. Middle West Spirits Vim & Petal Gin
0.5 oz. Crème de Violette
0.5 oz. Genepy
0.75 oz. Fresh Lemon Juice
0.5 oz. Butterfly Pea Flower-infused Simple Syrup
1 dash Lavender Bitters (optional)
Garnish: Wheat Sprig & Dehydrated Lemon
Optional: Edible Shimmer for magical effect!
Preparation
Combine gin/vodka, crème de violette, chartreuse, lemon, honey syrup, and bitters in a shaker with ice.
Shake hard until chilled.
Double strain into a chilled coupe with an optional purple sugar rim.
Smoky, chocolatey, and just a hint of mystery—this mezcal martini is the ultimate grown-up Halloween treat. Espresso, bitter chocolate, and a touch of allspice make it rich, decadent, and dangerously delicious.
Chocolate-Espresso Mezcal Martini
Ingredients
1.5 oz. Mezcal Espadín Gracias a Dios
0.5 oz. Agave Syrup
1 shot Double Espresso
⅓ oz. Homemade bitter Allspice
1 pinch Salt
2 Tbsp Grated Bitter chocolate
Preparation
Pour all the ingredients into a shaker and add ice.
Shake vigorously for 10 seconds.
Serve over a previously cold glass.
Pumpkin spice meets savory punch! This carrot-and-pumpkin concoction combines Teremana Reposado, fresh juices, and spiced pumpkin-ginger syrup for a bold, festive sipper. Black-salt rims give it a little extra autumnal edge.
Mr. Pumpkin Mana
by Teremana Tequila
Ingredients
4 cups Teremana Reposado
3 cups Fresh Carrot Juice
2 cups Fresh Lemon Juice
2 cups Pumpkin Ginger Syrup*
1 Tbsp Hot Sauce
½ tsp Celery Salt
Glassware: Rocks Glass
Garnish: Black Salt on the rim
Preparation
Build in a punch bowl with fresh ice and stir.
*Pumpkin Ginger Syrup
Ingredients
15 oz can of pumpkin puree
15 oz of ginger syrup
Preparation
To make the ginger syrup, combine ginger juice and simple syrup (1:1).
Blend all ingredients together.
Inspired by Salem, MA, this darkly glamorous cocktail blends browned butter bourbon with black cherry, honey, and lemon. Rimmed with edible black glitter and garnished with blackberries, it’s mysterious, magical, and absolutely spellbinding.
Witch City Potion
by Taffer’s Browned Butter Bourbon
Ingredients
2 oz. Taffer’s Browned Butter Bourbon
1 oz. Black Cherry Puree
0.5 oz. Honey Syrup
0.5 oz. Lemon Juice
Glassware: Coupe
Garnish: Edible Black Glitter Rim, Blackberries
Preparation
Rim glass with edible black glitter.
Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass or tin and shake with ice until well-chilled.
Strain into a cocktail glass and garnish.
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