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5 Halloween Cocktails to Get You in the Spooky Spirit

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Fordham chapter.

Morgue-a-Rita

Goo Ingredients: Light corn syrup & green food coloring

Drink Ingredients: Fresh lime juice, club soda, tequila, a splash of Triple Sec, maraschino cherry syrup & a cherry

Mix corn syrup with food coloring, dip the rim of a glass in the mixture and invert to allow the mixture to drip down into the glass. Pour maraschino syrup into the bottom of the glass, then the rest of the liquids. Add a cherry, and call the mortician.

 

 

Pumpkin Spice Punch

Ingredients: 2 Apples, 2 pears, 1 orange, a splash of lemon juice, ¼ cup of honey, brown sugar to taste, 1 cup of bourbon, 3 cups of apple cider, ½ teaspoon of pumpkin pie spice, 2 bottles of chilled pinot grigio

Slice up your fruits and cover them with lemon juice. Add honey, brown sugar, bourbon, and pumpkin pie spice. Let them sit (covered!) in the fridge for a few hours. Pour into a pitcher with chilled pinot grigio. Serve it to your friends (maybe in a pumpkin?) and enjoy!

 

The Poison Apple

Ingredients: Green sugar, vanilla vodka, orange liqueur, sour apple schnapps, fresh lemon juice, champagne

Rim your glass with green sugar (you may need some corn syrup on the rim to get it to stick!) Pour a shot of vanilla vodka, a shot of sour apple schnapps, half a shot of orange liqueur, half a shot of lemon juice into a shaker with ice. Shake & strain into your cocktail glass, top off with champagne!

 

Black Widow Shots

Ingredients: Black vodka, cranberry juice, red sugar crystals, a cherry (and a splash of cherry juice too!)

Fill a shaker with ice, pour in a shot of black vodka, a half shot of cranberry juice, and a splash of cherry juice. Shake well. Rim your shot glass with red sugar crystals, pour in the vodka mixture. Shoot & chase with a cherry!

 

Caramel Apple Cocktail

Ingredients: Apple juice, ginger ale or cream soda, caramel vodka (or bourbon!), caramel sauce, sugar, apple slices

Dip the rim of your cocktail glass in caramel sauce & sugar. Fill your glass with ice, pour in apple juice, a shot of caramel apple vodka, and soda. Add apple slices.

 

Jacquelyn Kozak is a junior at Fordham University studying English and Visual Arts. She enjoys long walks through the zoo and looking at viral videos of dogs, and is allergic to her own cats.