No adult Halloween party is complete without a few festive snacks and drinks. And while you may have covered your bases with a few premium Halloween appetizers, custom cocktails will really help bring your party to life! Check out a few specialized cocktail recipes below.
ZOMBIE BRAINS COCKTAIL
- Prep Time
5 min - Serving Size
2
Ingredients
- 4 oz Purple vodka
- 2 oz Chambord
- 8 oz Lemon-lime soda
- 1 oz Grenadine
- Ice
- 3 egg whites
- ⅔ c granulated sugar
- ½ tsp vanilla
- ¼ tsp cream of tartar
- Raspberries
- Gold Raspberries
Preparation
- Add ice to shaker.
- Add purple vodka, chambord and grenadine. Shake.
- Smash red raspberries and add to glass with gold raspberries.
- Add ice to glass, strain and pour cocktail.
- Top with lemon-lime soda.
- Cut small hole in zombie finger puppet to fit straw.
- Gently puncture meringue brain with straw so you don’t crack it in half.
- Top cocktail with meringue brain cookie and insert zombie straw.
POISON APPLE COCKTAIL
- Prep Time
5 min - Serving Size
2
Ingredients
- 6 oz Hpnotiq
- 2 oz Hennessy
- 2 oz Sour Apple Schnapps
- 4 oz Apple Juice
- .5 oz Grenadine (on bottom of glass)
- Ice
- Apple slices
- Dry Ice, crushed
Preparation
- Add ice to cocktail shaker.
- Add Hpnotiq, Hennessy, Sour Apple Schnapps and apple juice to cocktail shaker and shake.
- Add grenadine to bottom of martini glass.
- Gently strain shaken cocktail into glass.
- Garnish with apple slice and crushed dry ice.
MONSTER’S BREATH COCKTAIL
- Prep Time
5 min - Serving Size
2
Ingredients
- 5 oz Champagne
- 1 oz green Absinthe
- Gum paste
- Cornstarch
- Dry Ice, crushed
- Pop rocks, Green
- Corn syrup
Preparation
- Make the monster teeth cut outs. (Roll gumpaste thin and cut out small triangles. Add a small notch to each triangle so the teeth will sit on the side of the glass.)
- Dip glass in a thin coating of corn syrup and then dip in pop rocks.
- Garnish glass with monster teeth.
- Add champagne to flutes.
- Top with green absinthe.
- Add crushed dry ice.
WITCHES STOCKING COCKTAIL
- Prep Time
5 min - Serving Size
2
Ingredients
- 2 oz Amaretto
- 2 oz Dark Creme De Cacao
- 4 oz Bailey’s Irish Cream
- 6 oz Half & Half
- Red sanding sugar
- Corn syrup
- Maraschino cherries
- Whipped Cream
- Cocoa
Preparation
- Dip rim of glass lightly into corn syrup and red sanding sugar.
- Pour amaretto into bottom of glass.
- Pour Dark Creme De Cacao on top of amaretto.
- Gently pour Irish Cream over the back of spoon – layering on top of amaretto.
- Gently pour Half & Half over the back of spoon – layering on top of Irish cream.
- Whip cream until stiff peaks. Place half of whipped cream in a star tipped piping bag. Add cocoa powder
to the remaining whipped cream and gently fold in until incorporated. - Add cocoa whipped cream to a star tipped piping bag
- Layer vanilla whipped cream and Chocolate whipped cream on top of the layered cocktail.
- Garnish with skewered maraschino cherries and black and white striped straw.
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