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Candy Corn Martini and Other Halloween Cocktails
Throwing a spook-tacular Halloween party or attending any frightful festivities with family and friends this All Hallows Eve? For a true Halloween scare, try these Halloween cocktails.
Looking for inspiration for that perfectly spooky cocktail or spine-chillingly tasty beverage to serve your goblins, ghosts, witches this Halloween?
Try these tasty Halloween-inspired cocktails.
Halloween Cocktails 2013
Candy Corn Martini
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- ¼ cup candy corn
- 4 ounces Grey Goose Vodka
- BevMo! Tonic Water
- Garnish with orange sprinkles
Black Cloud Martini
- ½ cup Boylan’s orange soda
- 1 cup orange juice
- 1 shot Bauchant Orange Liqueur
- 2 shots Blavod Black Vodka
- 2 licorice wheels
Ghost Goblet
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- 3 ounces UV Cake Vodka
- 2 ounces half & half
- 1 scoop vanilla ice cream
- 1 cup ice
- Garnish with 1 Peeps Ghost marshmallow
Bleeding Heart Martini
- 2 ounces Dolin De Chambery Dry Vermouth
- 8 ounces G’vine Floraison Gin
- 4 Pickled Baby Beets, and Mezzetta Pickles Cocktail Onions each placed on a cocktail skewer
- Ice cubes
Blood Orange Shots
- 1 1/2 cups fresh blood-orange juice (from 7 to 8 blood oranges), chilled
- 6 tablespoons Solerno Blood-Orange Liqueur
Witches Brew
- 1 cup water, as needed
- 2 (1.5 fluid ounce) Stirrings Grenadine Syrup, or as desired (optional)
- Large plastic cauldron (from party store)
- 2 gallons orange juice
- 2 (2 liter) bottles lemon-lime soda
- 1 liter Three Olives Vodka
- 2 bottles Charles Ninot Sparkling Wine Brut (but one bottle and get the second for 5 cents!)
- 2 gallons orange sherbet
- 1 cup peeled green grapes (optional)
Bloody Tooth Cocktail
- 1 1/2 ounces Bullet Straight Rye Whiskey
- 1 1/2 ounces pomegranate juice
- 1 ounce Stirrings Simple Syrup
- 1/2 ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice
- Ice cubes
- Pomegranate seeds, for garnish
- Lemon twist, for garnish
Black Lagoon Cocktail
- 2 ounces Skyy Vodka
- 1 ounce of Blue Curacao Liqueur
- Martinelli’s Lemonade
- Ice
Ghost in the Graveyard
- 2 ounces Absolute 100 Proof Black Vodka
- 2 ounces creme de cacao or coffee-flavored liqueur
- 1 scoop vanilla ice cream
- Pinch of finely grated nutmeg, for garnish
Bloody Mary
- Zing Zang Bloody Mary Mix
- 2 ounces of Belvedere Bloody Mary Vodka
- Celery stalks, for garnish
- Scallions, dark-green parts only, for garnish
Pina Ghoulada
For the "blood":
- Stirrings Grenadine Syrup
For the drink:
- 20 ounces Langers Pineapple Juice
- 15 ounces of Coco Real Cream of Coconut
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 1 cup orange juice
- 10 ounces Kraken Black Spiced Rum
Dark and Stormy Death Punch
- One 20-ounce can lychees in heavy syrup
- 1/4 cup thinly sliced peeled fresh ginger
- 16 brandied cherries
- 1/4 cup superfine sugar
- 1/2 cup fresh lime juice
- 12 ounces Mount Gay Rum Eclipse
- Three 12-ounce bottles Bundaburg Ginger Beer
- Ice cubes
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