Pick Your Poison – Halloween Cocktails

Halloween is by far my favorite holiday, it gives me an excuse to get a little weird and take my imagination to the limits. I especially love to prepare strange snacks and colorful cocktails for the costume party. We know you love that too, so we prepared a few cocktail recipes to impress at your party. This time we’re stepping away from the typical orange and black themed candy cocktails that no one wants to drink and serve up some of the cocktails we’ve listed below at this year’s Halloween bash.

Besos de Bruja

1.5 oz Monkey Shoulder

3/4 oz Montelobos Mezcal

3/4 oz Gunpowder tea

3/4 oz Apple cider (reduced by half)

4 drops Angostura bitters

Combine ingredients over ice and serve in a highball glass, garnish with apple slice

Devil’s Punch

2 oz. Maestro Dobel Tequila

1 oz. Orange liqueur

1 oz. Limoncello

1 oz. Sour Mix

1 dash Orange juice

Pour ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a highball glass.

Witches Brew

1.5 oz. Sailor Jerry Rum

1 dash orange bitters

1 dash celery bitters

0.25 oz. Smoked pineapple syrup

0.5 oz. Lemon juice

0.75 Cointreau

Rim chilled coupe with zest sugar. Shake and double train into coupe glass.

The Morticia

2 oz. Reyka Vodka

2 teaspoons crushed pineapple

1 oz. Lime juice

Fresh mint leaves

Orange wheel

Add the pineapple, lime juice and mint leaves to a cocktail shakers and muddle to combine. Fill a cocktail shaker with ice, and top with vodka. Shake and combine, then strain into glass. garnish with an orange wheel and add a few mint leaves.

Ghouls Punch

16 oz. Monkey Shoulder

8 oz. Red ginger tea

6 oz. Grapefruit juice

3 oz. Lemon juice

2 oz. Cinnamon syrup

Combine ingredients in punch bowl, garnish with berries.