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tHalloween is finally upon us and what’s a bash without some yummy cocktails and treats? HollywoodLife.com searched far and wide for creepy crawly cocktails that are bound to get you into the Halloween spirit! Check out these 22 cocktail recipes and learn how to whip them up for your spooky soiree!
Witch’s Brew:
Found at: Lexington Social House in Hollywood
- 1oz Sailor Jerry spiced rum
- .5oz fresh lime juice
- .25oz St Elizabeth Allspice Dram
Directions: Add all ingredients in a chilled beer glass and fill to top with hefeweizen. Garnish with lime peel and ground nutmeg.
Candy Corn:
By Isaac Elbhar, Master Mixologist and General Manager of the Cellar Bar at the Bryant Park Hotel
- 4oz pineapple juice
- 1 1/2oz sloe gin
- 1 1/2oz orange vodka
- 2 egg whites
- 1 teaspoon sugar
Directions: Pour 4oz pineapple juice into champagne flute. Separately combine sloe gin and orange vodka into cocktail shaker. Gently pour over bar spoon. Separately combine egg whites and sugar into small mixing bowl. Whisk and dollop egg whites over cocktail with bar spoon.
Pumpkin Spice Tequila Cocktail:
Serves 2
Ingredients:
- 1/4 cup Sauza® Blue Silver Tequila
- 1/2 cup cream
- 2 tablespoons pumpkin spice syrup
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 tablespoons vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- 1 1/2 cups freshly brewed hot coffee
- Whipped Cream
Directions:
In a saucepan, combine cream with pumpkin syrup, sugar, vanilla and spice. Brew your coffee and divide it between two mugs. To each mug add half of the Sauza Blue Tequila and the cream mixture and stir. Top with whipped cream and cinnamon.
OCTOBER: Hornito-Lantern
Ingredients:
- 1 ½ parts Hornitos™ Reposado Tequila
- 1/6 parts pumpkin puree
- 1/2 parts chilled instant hot chocolate (no marshmallows)
Directions: Pre-make hot chocolate and chill. Combine ingredients and shake with ice. Strain into a shot glass.
Kanon Vodka Witches Brew:
- 2 parts kanon
- 1 part blood orange juice
- ½ part aperol
- ½part lime juice
- ½ part simple syrup
Directions: Combine ingredients and shake vigorously. Strain into a Martini or Antounette champagne glass. Created by Demetrios Saites at The Fat Radish
Drinking Chocolate:
- 1 bottle of Alchemia Chocolate vodka
- 2.5 oz dark chocolate
- 2 oz. heavy cream
- 4 oz. whole milk
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
- 1 1/2 tbs. granulated sugar
Directions: In a double boiler or microwave, melt chocolate. Add cream, milk, sugar, vanilla extract and cinnamon. Heat for ten minutes, stirring frequently. Remove from heat and refrigerate. Serve dark chocolate cold in shot glass with corresponding shots of Alchemia Chocolate. The drinking chocolate will provide maximum detection of Alchemia’s own chocolate notes.
Riazul “Fake Blood”:
- 1 oz. Riazul Silver Tequila
- 1 oz. Creme de Cassis
- 1 lime wedge
- Ginger Beer
Directions: Combine Riazul Silver, creme de cassis and squeezed lime juice with ice, shake and strain into a chilled glass. Fill with ginger beer. Bonus points: garnish with glow-in-the-dark candy vampire fangs!
Sinful Cider:
By Koi New York
- 1 1/2 oz Maker’s Mark
- 1/4 oz Amaretto DiSaronno
- 2 oz Apple Cider
- Splash Simple Syrup
Directions: Combine ingredients in ice filled shaker, shake then strain into a rocks glass with ice or a martini glass. Garnish with an orange twist.
Bloody Cosmo:
By De Santos
- 2 oz Vodka
- 1/2 oz Orange Liqueur
- 1/2 oz Lime Juice
- 1/2 oz Pomegranate Syrup
- 1 1/2 oz Cranberry Juice
- 1/4 oz Agave
Berry Bloodshot:
By Havana Central
- 5 mint leaves
- 1 Tbsp. sugar
- 1 1/2 oz. light rum
- 3 lime wedges
- 3 oz. cranberry juice
Directions: Top off with soda. Garnish with a lime wheel and 3 floating cranberries
Witches Brew:
By Stone Rose Lounge
- 2 1/4 oz Bacardi Light
- 2 1/4 oz Meyers Rum
- 1 1/4 oz Bacardi 151
- 2 1/2 oz pineapple juice
- 2 1/2 oz orange juice
- 1 1/4 oz sour mix
- 1 1/4 oz Grenadine
Directions: Fill glass completely with ice. Add all ingredients. Use your bar spoons to stir the drink until all ingredients are combined. It should be a pinkish red color. Throw in a handful of Gummi Worms and the appropriate amount of silly straws needed. The Witches Brew goes in a 60oz Schooner glass and is meant to be shared.
Blood Orange Cider:
- 2 oz. SKYY Infusions Blood Orange
- 6 oz. hot apple cider
- 1 cinnamon stick
- Sprinkle of nutmeg
Directions: Pour in a snifter glass
The Creepy Crawler:
- 2 oz. SKYY Infusions Blood Orange
- 1 tea spoon of passion fruit syrup
- .5 oz. of orange juice
- .5 oz. of Pineapple juice
Directions: Shake all ingredients and pour in a lowball glass. Fill with ice. Top with a hibiscus flower and a tea spoon of hibiscus flower syrup.
Cyclops Martini:
- 2 oz. Dry Saki
- 1 oz. Plymouth Gin
Directions: Build in a Boston Shaker over Ice. Shake and pour into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with Radish Eyeball.
Poison Appletini:
- 1 ½ oz. Vodka
- 1 ½ oz. Apple Pucker
- 2 oz. Freshly Pressed Apple Cider
- 1 oz. Simple Syrup
- ½ oz. Fresh Squeezed Lemon Juice
Directions: Add all ingredients over ice to a Boston Shaker. Shake and pour into a chilled cocktail glass rimmed with fake blood. Garnish with a freshly cut apple slice.
EctoCooler:
- 1 ½ oz. Vodka
- ½ oz. Midori
- ½ oz Blue Curacao
- 3 oz. OJ
- 3 oz. Lemon/Lime Soda
Directions: Build all ingredients except soda over ice in a Boston Shaker Shake. Pour into a Ball Tumbler or Rocks Glass. Top with lemon/lime soda. Finish with seasonal garnish.
Witch’s Brew:
- 1oz Sailor Jerry spiced rum
- .5oz fresh lime juice
- .25oz St Elizabeth Allspice Dram
Directions: Add all ingredients in a chilled beer glass and fill to top with hefeweizen. Garnish with lime peel and ground nutmeg.
Candy Corn (shot):
Found at: The Palazzo and Venetian Hotels Las Vegas
This is a shot served pousse cafe style or “layered”. Sweet and creamy flavor profile.
- Merry’s White Chocolate liqueur
- Tuaca
- Absolute Mandarin (dyed orange)
Campanile Cider:
Found at: The Palazzo and Venetian Hotels Las Vegas
- 1 ½ oz Frangelico
- 1 oz. Clove Infused Bacardi Red Peach Rum
- ½ oz Fresh Lemon Juice
- 1 oz Apple Juice
- 2 dashes Bar Code Baked Apple Bitters
Directions: Shake and strain. Serve in cinnamon sugar rimmed martini glass.
Harmonie’s Black Widow Martini:
HPNOTIQ Harmonie Halloween cocktail loved by Khloe Kardashian, LO Bosworth, and Kelly Bensimon.
- 2 oz Hpnotiq Harmonie Liqueur
- 1.5 oz Black Cherry Vodka
- Splash Cranberry Juice
Directions: Garnish with a glitter spider ring. Add black licorice laces lining to side of glass to create a spider web effect – OR- Use chocolate sauce to create a web in the glass, put glass in cooler to set, pour drink.
Barcadi Spooki-licious Punch:
- 3 1⁄4 parts Bacardi® Superior
- 1 part St. Germain®
- 1 part Aperol®
- 3⁄4 part simple syrup
- 3⁄4 part lime juice
- 2 parts blood orange juice or pineapple and cranberry juices
- 11⁄2 parts Prosecco or ginger ale to taste
Directions: Add all ingredients into a punch bowl, stirring occasionally. Add ice and Prosecco or ginger ale to taste. Garnish with blood orange wheels and lychee fruit.
Jack O’ Lantern:
- 2 Oz. Jack Daniels
- .5 Oz. Lucid Absinthe
- Orange Bitters
- 2 Sugar Cubes
Blood Orange Mochaccino Cocktail:
- ½ can of illy issimo Mochaccino
- 1 oz. blood orange infused vodka
- 1/6 oz. simple syrup
Directions: Garnish with an orange slice.
Spooky Sangria:
- 1 Bottle of Red Wine
- 4 Cans of CASCAL Ripe Rouge
- Crushed or cubed ice
- Seasonal Sliced Fruit
Directions: Mix 1 part red wine and 1 part Cascal Ripe Rouge in a pitcher. Add ice and seasonal fruit.
Sobi Skeleton:
- 2 oz. Sobieski Vanilla
- 1/2 oz. Marie Brizard White Cocoa Liqueur
- 3 oz. Club Soda
Shake Sobieski Vanilla and Marie Brizard White Cocoa Liqueur. Top with club soda.
Witches’ Brew By Ultimat Vodka:
- 2 oz Ultimat Vodka
- ½ oz blood orange simple
- syrup (steep blood oranges in a simple syrup)
- juice of 1 key lime
- black smoked salt
Directions: Mix Ultimat Vodka, blood orange simple syrup, and key lime juice in mixing tin. Add ice, shake, and strain into a martini glass rimmed with black smoked salt.
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