6 Spooky Halloween Cocktails

Get into the Halloween spirit while sipping on these festive cocktails! Pick your poison and get to brewing, witches.

Brain Hemorrhage    

Ingredients:

½- ¾ ox. Peach Schnapps

1-2 tbsp. Bailey’s

1 tsp. Grenadine

Instructions:

1. Pour the Peach Schnapps in a glass
2. Float the Bailey’s on top
3. Drop grenadine through the Bailey’s

(Yield: 1 cocktail)

Morgue-A-Rita

Ingredients:

Goo:

¼ cup of light corn syrup

green food coloring

Cocktail:

½ cup fresh lime juice

1 cup club soda

¾ cup triple sec

4 cherries

4 tsp. of maraschino cherry syrup

(Yield: 4 cocktails)

Instructions:

1. Mix together ¼ cup light corn syrup with green food coloring (Tip: start with just a little coloring and add until you get desired color) then set aside.
2. Place glasses in the freezer to frost them. When frozen, dip each glass into the green syrup and invert to allow the syrup to drip slightly. Return glasses to the freezer to set.
3. Insert stirrers through maraschino cherries for each drink and set aside
4. Juice the limes and strain if desired to remove pulp
5. Combine tequila, triple sec and lime juice in a cocktail shaker with ice and shake until very cold
6. Pour one teaspoon of the cherry syrup into the bottom of each glass
7. Carfeully pour the margarita mixture into each glass till about ¾ full (Tip: Pour very slowly to avoid disturbing the syrup on the bottom)
8. Top off each drink with ¼ cup of club sode and serve immediately

Dark Magic

Ingredients:

¼ cup ice

½ cup orange juice

1 ½ oz. black vodka

½ oz. triple sec

Orange wedge for garnish

(Yield: 1 cocktail)

Instructions:

1. In a cocktail shaker, add orange juice and triple sec over ice. Shake well and strain into a glass
2. Using the back of a spoon, pour black vodka slowly into a glass so that the vodka sits atop the orange juice and triple sec mix
3. Carefully dip one edge of the orange wedge into the vodka for a spooky presentation, and sit the wedge on the rim of the glass.

Candy Corn Jell-O Shots 

Ingredients:

1 ½ cups boiling water, divided

3 oz. package of lemon-flavored gelatin mix

2 cups of vodka divided

Ice cubes

3 oz. package of orange flavored gelatin mix

2 tbsp. warm water

¼ oz. envelope unflavored gelatin

14 oz. can sweetened condensed milk

½ cup light rum

Instructions:

1. Pour ¾ cup boiling water into a small bowl. Add lemon gelatin mix; stir until dissolved. Pour 1 cup vodka into a glass measuring cup; add enough ice to make 1 ¼ cup. Stir into lemon gelation mixture.
2. Refrigerate until lemon gelatin layer is set (at least 90 minutes)
3. Pour remaining ¾ cup boiling water into the small bowl. Add orange gelatin mix; stir until dissolved. Pour remaining 1 cup vodka into a glass measuring cup. Add enough ice to make 1 ¼ cup. Stir into orange gelatin until slightly thickened; remove any unmelted ice. Pour over lemon gelatin layer.
4. Refrigerate until orange gelatin layer is set (at least 90 mins)
5. Pour 2 tbsp. warm water into a bowl. Add unflavored gelatin; stir until dissolved. Stir in condensed milk and rum. Pour over orange gelatin layer.
6. Refrigerate until top layer is set (at least 30 mins)

Black Widow

Ingredients:

1 oz. Anisette

1 oz. Blackberry brandy

1 ½ oz. Vodka

1 splash of Crème de Cassis

Black Sugar Sprinkles

Black licorice strips

Instructions:

1. Mix Anisette, blackberry brandy, vodka and Crème de Cassis
2. Add black sprinkles around the rim of each glass
3. Pour mixture into glasses
4. String black licorice strips over the edge of the glass to create “spider legs”

Piña Ghouladas

Ingredients:

White rum

Ice

Piña Colada Mix

Corn Syrup

Red food coloring

Instructions:

1. Mix together corn syrup and red food coloring and dip the rim of the glasses into the syrup, flipping them upright to let the syrup drip down
2. Place glasses into freezer to allow syrup to set on the glasses
3. Once frozen, blend together the ice, rum and pina colada mix according to mix instructions
4. Pour the drink into the glasses and garnish with red gummy worms

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