9 Spooky Cocktails You Need To Try This Halloween
There’s something about Halloween that makes us want to try something unique in our liquor glasses. The possibility of trying some truly different drinks aside, it’s the spooky look and feel of the cocktail itself that most excites us during this time. Keeping that in mind, here are some spookilicious cocktails you can try on the occasion of Halloween. Impress yourself, your friends and your favourite Halloween characters with these drinks.
1 – Bramble Bite
Ingredients:
50ml Ardbeg Wee Beastie
20ml Fresh Lemon Juice
10ml Vanilla Syrup
15ml Blackberry Liqueur
Mint Sprig
Blackberry
Directions: Add Ardbeg, lemon juice and syrup to a stemmed water goblet half-filled with crushed ice. Muddle a little before adding more crushed ice. Drizzle with blackberry liqueur and garnish with a mint sprig and blackberry
2 – The Lakeside
Ingredients:
40 ml Belvedere Vodka
15 ml Fino Sherry
25 ml Fresh Lemon Juice
25 ml Honey Water
2 chunks Fresh Cucumber
Directions: Add all ingredients to a shaker over cubed ice and shake vigorously. Fine strain into a chilled coupette. Garnish with fresh cucumber.
3 – Cookie Monster Sour
Ingredients:
50 ml Glenmorangie Lasanta
10 ml Gingerbread Syrup
10 ml Vanilla Syrup
20 ml Lemon Syrup
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
2 dashes Chocolate Bitters
10 ml Egg White
Directions: Pour all the ingredients into a cocktail shaker. Fill the shaker with cubed ice and shake for 10-15 seconds. Strain into a chilled rocks glass over cubed ice. Garnish with a ginger biscuit dipped in white chocolate.
4 – Trick Or Treat Old Fashioned
Ingredients:
45 ml Glenmorangie Lasanta
7.5 ml Sweet Vermouth
5 ml Gingerbread Syrup
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
Directions: Pour everything into a mixing glass, add ice cubes and stir for a few moments. Strain into a chilled rocks glass, over more ice cubes, then set off the rich swirl of flavours with a spiralling lemon twist.
5 – Scottish Potion
Ingredients:
60ml Black & White Scotch Whisky
10ml Salted caramel syrup
10ml Blueberry syrup
2 dash of Angostura bitters
Directions:
Add Black & White Scotch Whisky, salted caramel syrup, blueberry syrup and two dash of angostura bitters to a mixing glass. Add ice and stir until chilled. Garnish with Blueberry and mint
6 – Purple Portion Punch
Ingredients:
60ml Singleton of Glendullan 12YO
60ml Blue pea tea
15ml Lime
Grapefruit tonic to top it up
Directions: Add ice, Singleton of Glendullan 12YO, Blue pea tea, lime juice to a shaker and give it a good shake. Pour the mix into a tall cocktail glass over a block of ice and add a of grapefruit tonic. Garnish with edible fruits or flowers
7 – Johnnie Black Magic
Ingredients:
60ml Johnnie Walker Black label
60ml Assam tea
30ml orange juice
15ml lime juice
2 dash of Angostura bitters
Edible charcoal powder
Directions: Add ice to a highball glass. Add Johnnie Walker Black Label, Assam tea, orange juice, 2 dash of Angostura bitters, lime juice and a pinch of edible charcoal powder. Garnish with Orange wheel.
8 – Red Runner
Ingredients:
60ml Smirnoff Vodka
60ml Cranberry juice
30 ml lychee juice
15ml Elderflower syrup
20 lime juice
Directions:
In a shaker, add ice cubes, Smirnoff vodka, cranberry juice, lychee juice, elderflower syrup, lime juice. Shake well and pour it into a martini glass. Garnish with Lychee with any berry.
9 – Twilight by Maka Zai
Ingredients:
60 ml Maka Zai White
15 ml Blueberry and rosemary cordial
15 ml Fresh lime juice
1 no. Black plums
Dash of Soda
Sliced plums with Blueberry and rosemary.
Directions: In a shaker, add slices of plum and muddle them. Then add all the ingredients except the soda. Add ice, give it a nice shake and strain it into a chilled highball glass. Add a dash of soda and garnish it with plum slices and blueberry. Don’t forget to smoke the rosemary.
Directions for making the Blueberry and rosemary cordial:
Ingredients:
2 cups frozen wild blueberries
1 cup sugar
½ cup water
¼ cup torn fresh rosemary leaves
Directions: Add sugar, water, and blueberries to a saucepan on the stove on medium heat. Stir it until the sugar dissolves and the berries thaw and cook down. It’ll take about 10-15 minutes. Add the torn rosemary leaves, turn the heat to low for 5 minutes. Turn off the heat completely and let the rosemary steep in the syrup until it has cooled to room temperature. Strain and store in the fridge in a clean glass jar.
Which of these would you like to try? Let us know in the comments below.
