HOLIDAYS
HOLIDAYS
Creepy Cocktails
This Halloween, treat your friends and family to a haunting cocktail party. Serve up spooky spirits with ghoulish garnishes that will have your guests howling in delight. Just don't forget to dish up plenty of appealing appetizers to round out your frightful fete.
Make this festive Halloween cocktail throughout the fall.
This is the perfect mild cocktail to serve your guests. The bright orange color is super-festive for Halloween.How to Serve It: Serve in a martini glass and garnish with a black licorice straw or black and white peppermint stick.
Recipe courtesy of the Food Network
Ingredients
- 2 cups orange juice
- 2 cups chilled sparkling water
- 1/2 Cup maraschino liqueur
- 1/4 Cup limoncello
- Ice
- Black licorice or a black and white peppermint stick, for garnish
Steps
- Combine all the ingredients, except the licorice, in a pitcher.
- Stir to mix.
- Pour into glasses and garnish as you please.
This apple flavored jello shot is easy to make and tastes great.
Similar to a good-old Jell-O shot, but with a spooky twist! Make sure
to use a green-colored Jell-O flavor such as Apple or Lime. Also, withthis drink you can use any hard alcohol you'd like. We suggest pairingthe lime flavor with tequila and the apple flavor with vodka.How to Serve It: Shot glasses look best, but mini paper cups can be turned inside outfor easier consumption. Garnish by placing a sour jelly worm restinghalfway outside the shot glass before refrigerating. When the jellohardens, the worm will be suspended in the drink.Recipe Courtesy of Drink Street
Ingredients
- 6 ounces Lime or Apple flavored Jello (large package)
- 16 ounces Water (boiling)
- 6 ounces Water (cold)
- 10 ounces Vodka
Steps
- Mix the jello mix with the boiling water until the powder is fully dissolved.
- Add the cold water and alcohol.
- Pour the cooling mixture into either shot glasses or paper cups. Shot glasses are more attractive, but drinker can turn the paper cups inside-out to more easily eat the alcoholic jello.
Vanilla, hazenult and bananas make this creamy Halloween cocktail out of this world.
This playful take on a martini is delicious yet surprisingly strong.
Its milky white color makes it the perfect ghoul for Halloween.How to Serve It: In a Martini glass or very narrow tall glass. Garnish by using a blacksword toothpick to pierce the center of two chocolate pumpkins for asweet finish.
Ingredients
- 1 Shot Russian Standard Vodka
- 0.5 Shot Disaronno Amaretto
- 1 Shot De Kuyper Crème De Cacao - White
- 1 Shot De Kuyper Crème De Bananas
- 2 Shots Cream
- Half a Banana
Steps
- Add all ingredients in a martini shaker.
- Shake vigorously for 30 seconds.
- Pour into a chilled martini glass and enjoy.
This drink is a play on the traditional Gin Fizz. It's far moreoriginal than using a Bloody Mary for a gruesome red drink. Surpriseyour guests with this delicious cocktail.How to Serve It: In a zombie glass, of course! Garnish with a red zombie eye by de-stemming a maraschino cherry and placing a chocolate chip (pointed side down) into the hole. Fabulously creepy!
This drink is a play on the traditional Gin Fizz. It's far moreoriginal than using a Bloody Mary for a gruesome red drink. Surpriseyour guests with this delicious cocktail.How to Serve It: In a zombie glass, of course! Garnish with a red zombie eye by de-stemming a maraschino cherry and placing a chocolate chip (pointed side down) into the hole. Fabulously creepy!
Recipe courtesy of Drinks Mixer
Ingredients
- 2 Oz gin
- Juice from 1 1/2 lemons
- 1 Tsp powdered sugar
- Carbonated water
Steps
- Shake gin, juice of lemon, and powdered sugar with ice.
- Strain into a highball (zombie!) glass over two ice cubes.
- Fill with carbonated water, stir, and serve.
The most important part of a cocktail party is, of course, the drinks themselves! For this party you'll want to have a number of pre-mixed cocktails ready upon the guests' arrival. When you pre-mix drinks for a cocktail party, always try to include a wide variety of alcohols in your selection. A wide selection will ensure that all your guests can find something they'll enjoy for the evening.
For example,include:
- A vodka-based cocktail
- A gin-based cocktail
- A tequila or rum-based cocktail
- A mild cocktail with lower-proof alcohol for those who don't like strong drinks
- Place a candy eyeball in a martini glass for a creepy-looking (pun intended!) cocktail.
- Place the Pumpkin Punch in a black cauldron for serving. Float a ghostly-looking face and hands in the cauldron by freezing ice cubes in the mold of a mask (cover the eye and mouth hole with aluminum before adding water) and gloves (freeze the water inside the gloves).
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