Enter the spookiest season of the year with the highest of spirits this Halloween! Whether you’re celebrating at a haunting soiree at home, or an all-night party at your favourite haunt, we’re here to make sure your night is a spine-tingling affair with a special pick of Halloween-themed cocktails that will have your guests howling for more. From bubbling scarlet concoctions with mysterious ingredients to reanimated old-fashioned classics that are as scrumptious as they are sinister, each of these sinfully delicious recipes is sure to let you shapeshift into your most supernatural self. So prepare your cauldron for some wonderfully witchy brews this weekend and make your Halloween celebration fantastic!
GHOST EYES
Ingredients:
60ml Bacardi Carta Blanca
30ml Lychee Juice
15ml Lime
7.5ml Blue Curacao syrup
Top up with Ginger Ale
Preparation: Build ingredients over ice and slowly pour blue curacao over the top. Serve in highball glass with 2 lychees stuffed with black olives, skewered, to make your ghostly eyes. Beware, the spirits are always watching.
BLOODY ZOMBIE
Ingredients:
60ml Bacardi Carta Blanca
20ml Pineapple Juice
15ml Monin Pineapple Puree
7.5ml Grenadine
2 dashes Aromatic Bitters
Preparation: Build up over ice. Add Grenadine in a pipette/dropper, and invite your guests to press it into the drink. Use a lemon shell with rum and light it up!
GRAVE DIGGER
Ingredients:
60ml Bacardi Anejo Cuatro
30ml Espresso
20ml Heavy cream
20ml Sugar syrup
Preparation: Shake all ingredients with ice. Strain over fresh ice in a glass. Toast burnt marshmallow on a stick to use as garnish, along with cinnamon powder.
WITCH’S CAULDRON
Ingredients:
50ml Bacardi Carta Blanca
30ml Cranberry Juice
20ml Lime Juice
Preparation: Stirred slowly is the witch’s brew, serves two. Shake all ingredients with ice strain into 2 pumpkin props and serve as shooters. Garnish with a burnt orange wedge.
FRANKENSTEIN’S OLD FASHIONED
Ingredients:
60ml Bacardi Reserva Ocho
10ml Banana Caramel
2 dashes Aromatic Bitters
Preparation: Stir all ingredients over ice, and strain into an old-fashioned glass with an ice block. Garnish with chocolate Halloween candy and enjoy!
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