What’s Halloween as an adult if not for a boozy, wild night filled with friends, scares and spooky treats? Believe it or not, we’ve found a way to make your Halloween party (solo or horde) even better than last year with cocktail recipes that’ll chill you to the bone. (haha! get it?)
We love puns, we love Halloween and most of all, we love us some tequila. So, Morgue-A-Rita seemed like the perfect choice for our Halloween party. There’s tequila, triple sec and green goo running down the glass. Yum, right?!
What you’ll need (Serves 4):
- ½ cup fresh lime juice
- 1 cup club soda
- ¾ cup tequila
- 89 ml triple sec
- 4 cherries
- 4 tsp maraschino cherry syrup
- ¼ cup light corn syrup
- Green food colouring
Instructions:
For the goo –
- Mix the light corn syrup with food colouring. Add colouring little by little as you stir, till you see a colour you like
- Put glasses in the freezer and frost. Pull them out once chilled, invert and dip into green syrup and stand them upright so that the syrup can drip
- Put glasses back in freezer
For the drink –
- Skewer maraschino cherries with stirrers
- Add lime juice, triple sec and tequila into a shaker filled with ice and shake well
- Pour 1 tsp cherry syrup into each glass, put in the skewered cherries
- Carefully strain cocktail mixture into glass without disturbing the syrup at the bottom
- Add club soda on top and serve
It looks like blood but it tastes goddamn delicious! Not only is it simple and easy to stir up, it gives your Halloween parties that extra gore that’s always needed. A mixture of vodka, blackcurrant juice and Chartreuse – it’s the perfect drink to channel some Dracula in.
What you’ll need:
- 44 ml Absolut
- 60 ml black currant juice
- 15 ml Chartreuse
Instructions:
- Stir all the ingredients in a glass filled with ice
- Strain into a cocktail glass and serve
Halloween would feel incomplete without an overdose of black, so why should our liquor be far behind? The Black Friday Cocktail is perfect for those whose souls are just as dark. It mixes some earthy flavours with activated charcoal to make a drink that looks like it’s come straight from the pits of hell!
What you’ll need:
- 44 ml vodka
- 30 ml beet juice
- 15 ml lime juice
- 15 ml honey ginger syrup
- 350 mg activated charcoal
- 1 pinch of salt
Instructions:
- Shake all ingredients in a shaker filled with ice
- Pour cocktail into a coupe glass, over 1 large cube of ice
How could we not pay ode to one of the OGs of horror fiction and poetry? Edgar Allan Poe wrote quite a few eerie pieces, the most prolific of which is The Raven. Don’t worry though, this drink won’t replicate the feeling of impending doom of the poem. Instead, it promises to be a delicious saviour if you’re spending your Halloween curled up with some Poe.
What you’ll need:
- 6 fresh blackberries
- Mint leaves
- 44 ml white rum
- ½ cup cranberry juice
Instructions:
- Mash 3 blackberries in a shaker, then mix them with 3 mint leaves
- Add in the rum and ice, then shake till chilled
- Pour into wine goblet and add in cranberry juice on top
- Add sugar to taste if you feel the need
- Skewer the remaining 3 blackberries on a bamboo pick and lay on top of the glass
- Garnish with mint and serve
Is going to the doctor just as horrifying to you as they are for us? Or have you ever wanted to inject something that looks very, uncannily similar to blood, into your drink? Well, you belong to the small group with strong enough stomachs to serve this delicious, simple, gory drink. Be sure to stock up on syringes, that’s the whole fun of it! (Never thought I’d ever say that sentence)
What you’ll need:
- Clear plastic cups or glasses
- Empty syringes
- Chilled lemon-lime soda
- Grenadine
Instructions:
- Fill a large bowl with grenadine, and fill up your syringes with it till they’re almost full
- Fill your glasses with lemon lime soda, place the syringes inside and drink
- Ask guests to squeeze the syringe into the drink
