If you haven't decided yet whether to celebrate Halloween, it's fun and interesting. An important part of it is occupied by cocktails. Surprise your friends with interesting cocktail recipes that will perfectly fit into the party surroundings.
1. Bloody Mary
Perhaps there is no better occasion to make this cocktail than Halloween. The name itself speaks for itself. By the way, Bloody Mary is a real character. Its prototype was the English Queen Mary I Tudor. In the memory of her compatriots, her name is associated with cruel massacres of objectionable citizens. When serving a cocktail, tell your friends a mysterious English legend. It is believed that if, standing in front of a mirror in a dark room, you say "Bloody Mary" 3 times, you can see the ghost of the queen.
Ingredients:
Tomato juice 250 ml
Vodka 100 ml
Soy sauce 1 tsp
Smoked paprika 1 tsp
Black ground pepper 1/2 tsp.
Lemon juice 2 tsp
Shake soy sauce, paprika, pepper and lemon juice in a shaker. Add tomato juice and beat well again. Pour into glasses. Pour vodka over the knife so that it does not mix with a mixture of juices and seasonings. 
2. Grog
On such an ominous cold night, it would be nice to keep warm. Grog will do a great job with this task. It is a hot alcoholic drink with spices. The mixture of spices is brought to a boil, and then rum is poured into it. Cognac or whiskey can also act as an alcohol base. Non-alcoholic options are also possible, for example, using hot tea.
Ingredients:
Apple juice 100 ml
Dark rum 60 ml
Lime (lemon) juice 1 pc.
Brown sugar 1 tsp
Cinnamon 1 small stick
Fresh ginger 1 slice
Place all ingredients in a small saucepan and heat slightly until the sugar is completely dissolved. Strain. The drink is ready. 
3. Vampire Kiss
What's a Halloween party without a vampire? Only on this day you and your guests have a chance to get a vampire kiss. It is enough just to prepare the appropriate cocktail.
Ingredients:
Orange juice 120 ml
Vodka 40 ml
Cherry juice 20 ml
Sprite to taste
Licorice 1 stick
Pour orange juice, vodka and cherry juice into a tall glass. Pour the sprite on top and garnish with a licorice stick. 
4. Witch's Potion
Another indispensable guest of the Halloween party is the insidious witch. Even if you are not going to have a sabbath in your apartment, have the sorceress's potion appear on your table. If this evening you tried on a witch costume, then show your acting skills. Charm the guests and offer a signature potion from the hostess.
Ingredients:
Boiling water 2 cups
Lime flavored jelly 1 sachet
Chilled pineapple juice 3 cups
Vodka 2 glasses
Sprite 2 l
Pour the contents of the bag of jelly into a saucepan, pour in hot water and stir until completely dissolved. Then add other ingredients. Allow to cool to room temperature. 
5. Black cat
Let a black cat run into your party. The preparation of such a cocktail will take quite a bit of time, and good luck will accompany you all year. After all, today we interpret all the signs exactly the opposite.
Ingredients:
Raspberry liqueur 15 ml
Black vodka 60 m
Ice 1 cup
Mix raspberry liqueur, black vodka and ice well in a shaker. Pour into a chilled martini glass. 
6. Light and darkness
And this cocktail is reminiscent of the deep meaning of the holiday called Halloween. After all, this is not just a fun party, but also a symbolic day. All Hallows' Eve is the day when light mixes with darkness, and good with evil. The cocktail can be garnished with an orange. A circle of this fruit in a glass will be a symbol of light prevailing over a dark alcoholic mass.
Ingredients:
Coffee liqueur 200 m
Vodka 100 ml
Cherry syrup 50 ml
In a shaker, mix liqueur, vodka and cherry syrup. Pour into glasses. 
7 Clockwork Gourd
The pumpkin is the most important symbol of Halloween. We are sure that at the entrance your guests will be greeted by a pumpkin head with a burning candle inside. On this day, the orange beauty is really used almost everywhere: in the preparation of themed dishes, in decorating the table. Do not forget about pumpkin when mixing cocktails. It will turn out a very original and spicy drink. Get ready to share the recipe with your friends.
Ingredients:
Pumpkin juice 0.5 l
Vermouth 0.5 l
Vodka 100 ml
Large black pepper 2 tablespoons
Mint a few leaves
Ice to taste
Grind the mint in a mortar. Put in a jug, add pumpkin juice. Pour in vermouth and vodka, add pepper, mix. Pour the cocktail into glasses. Add ice. 
8. Drops of blood
And here is a non-alcoholic cocktail in case you have children or non-drinking witches in your company. You can cook it very quickly, the main thing is to stock up on the necessary ingredients in advance.
Ingredients:
Milk 3.2% 180 ml
Vanilla ice cream 80 g
Raspberry syrup (or cranberry juice) to taste
Whipped cream to taste
Blend milk and ice cream in a blender. Pour into glass. Top with whipped cream and raspberry syrup. 
Halloween isn't just about spooky costumes, it's about spooky food and drinks, too! Moreover, everything is terrible in them: both the names and the appearance. An eye pricked on a fork, brains in a bowl, goblets of blood or marsh gas-colored drinks glowing deathly in the dark… Brrr!.. Horror! Horror!
Here's how to create all this horror in your kitchen, we'll talk. In order for your party to be imbued with the spirit of gothic and thrash, you do not need to run to a specialized store of creepy jokes or learn how to cook super-complex dishes and drinks. There are a lot of tricks and little things that will help turn an ordinary, in general, dish into something unimaginably nightmarish. For example, a bloody eye cocktail decoration looks creepy but is easy to make. We take a radish and peel the skin so that red streaks remain on a white background. Cut out the center of the olive. Stuff the olive with red pepper or blueberries. We collect our bloody eye: insert an olive into a radish and prick this structure on a cocktail stick.
The Chinese lychee fruit can also be made into a wonderfully believable eye: dry the lychee fruit, fill it with bright red jam, insert a blueberry and prick it on a straw or cocktail stick. These "eyes" can be frozen in ice cube trays - just fill them with water and you'll have spooky ice cubes in your glasses.
Ice in the form of a severed hand in a punch bowl - how do you like such a surprise? Your guests will appreciate it! Take a cleanly washed glove and fill it with water or juice. Remember that not all juices freeze! Put the filled glove in the freezer. Before removing the "hand" from the glove, dip it for a few seconds in boiling water. You can freeze gelatin worms and spiders into ice cubes, you get great ice for witch drinks!
It is also easy to braid a glass of drink with disgusting cobwebs. Melt bittersweet chocolate in milk or cream, draw it into a disposable syringe and quickly apply a spider web pattern to the inside walls of the glass. It is clear that the drink should be transparent.
Well, the classics of the genre - bloody smudges - it's generally simple. Mix bright red opaque juice with swollen gelatin, heat until gelatin dissolves and cool slightly. Dip the edges of the glasses in the resulting "blood" and quickly turn over so that drops flow picturesquely down the glass. To enhance the resemblance, put a few bruises on the walls of the glasses and put the glasses in the refrigerator.
Bright red grenadine syrup will help you turn even an ordinary glass of vodka into a vampire drink: pour grenadine into the bottom of the glass, put ice and carefully pour in the vodka so that the grenadine remains at the bottom.
Halloween cocktails must be in incredible colors! Absinthe, which, when mixed with water, gives a cloudy green color, liqueurs of all shades of red, Hpnotiq blue liqueur, and black vodka, will come in handy. Black vodka is generally a godsend for a horror movie-style party. Even the classic "Bloody Mary" with black vodka looks completely different, like Halloween, or something ...
Disgusting in appearance and delicious in taste is a cocktail that looks like brains in a glass. It is also easy to prepare: you need to carefully add Baileys liquor to any strong alcoholic drink. This is done with the help of a cocktail tube - we draw liquor into the tube, pinch it with your finger so that the liquor does not flow out, and release it into a glass with vodka or gin. Liquor at the same time curls up into balls. If the trick does not work, then drink the failed cocktail and start over.
Well, we figured out the embellishment, it's up to the recipes. They are mostly simple and do not require mastery of a shaker. If you can pour the layers of the cocktail without stirring - great!
Ingredients:
80 g strawberry vodka,
40 g Baileys liqueur
20 lime or lemon juice
grenadine,
straw.
Cooking:
Mix vodka and lime juice in a shaker, strain through a strainer into a shot glass. Pull a little liquor into the straw, pinch the upper end with your finger and dip the straw into the vodka. Slowly release your finger and release the liquor in thick strands. Add grenadine, mix a little.
Vampire Bloody Mary Cocktail
Ingredients:
60 ml of vodka,
120 g tomato juice,
½ tsp grated horseradish,
a few drops of hot sauce.
Cooking:
Fill the edges and walls of the glass with streams of "blood", put the glass in the refrigerator. When the drops of "blood" harden, put ice in a glass, pour in vodka, put horseradish, drip hot sauce and add tomato sauce. Stir, garnish with a sprig of celery and a bloody eye of radish.
Ingredients:
50 ml vodka,
50 ml of champagne,
20 ml raspberry liqueur.
Cooking:
Decorate the rim of the glass with drops of "blood". Pour vodka into a glass, 10 ml of liquor, then champagne. Pour the remaining liquor along the knife to the bottom to form a sediment.
lady's cocktail
Ingredients:
45 ml absinthe,
20 ml almond syrup
15 ml lime juice
20-30 ml of champagne,
3-4 cherries,
ground nutmeg.
Cooking:
Mash the cherries with syrup and lime juice, add absinthe and ice, shake. Strain into prepared glass, top with champagne, sprinkle with nutmeg. Garnish with a cherry on a skewer.
Ingredients:
45 ml black vodka,
½ stack freshly squeezed tangerine juice
¼ stack. ice.
Cooking:
Pour ice into a tall glass, add juice. Carefully add black vodka along the blade of a knife or with a teaspoon, being careful not to mix the layers.
Ingredients:
30 ml black vodka,
60 ml cherry juice
ice,
raspberries and strawberries for decoration.
Cooking:
Vigorously mix the vodka and juice. Pour into a martini glass, add ice, garnish with a toothpick and berries.
Crazy Eyes Cocktail
Ingredients:
15 ml blue liqueur
30 ml of vodka,
60 ml lychee juice
1 lychee for garnish
some red jam
1 blueberry.
Cooking:
Mix vodka, liqueur and juice in a shaker, shake, pour into a glass. Make a crazy "eye", prick it on a cocktail stick, put it on a glass.
Tooctail "Hypnosis"
Ingredients:
60 ml blue liqueur
30 ml of vodka,
5 ml lemon juice
ice,
glow stick for decoration.
Cooking:
Mix all ingredients in a shaker, shake, strain into a martini glass. Decorate with a glow stick. The look of this cocktail is simply mesmerizing!
Ingredients:
30 ml absinthe,
30 ml lemon or lime juice
30 ml melon liqueur
45 ml pineapple juice
a drop of grenadine
Cooking:
Mix liqueur, absinthe and pineapple juice in a shaker with ice, strain into a glass. Pour lime juice on top and sprinkle grenadine. A drop of bright grenadine spreads in a glass, evoking associations with poison.
Ingredients:
30 ml Chartreuse liqueur
30 ml absinthe,
10 ml green Curacao,
50-75 ml of milk,
ice.
Cooking:
Mix the alcoholic drinks in a glass with ice, then carefully pour in the cold milk, being careful not to mix the layers.
Ingredients:
45 ml of vodka,
45 ml lime juice
sugar for decoration
ice.
Cooking:
Moisten the rim of the glass with water and dip in sugar, you get a "hoarfrost". In a blender, whisk vodka with juice and ice, carefully pour into a glass, garnish with a lime wedge.
Ingredients:
30 ml of vodka,
30 ml coffee liqueur
15 ml Baileys liqueur
15 ml schnapps with creamy toffee flavor,
150 ml of milk.
Cooking:
Mix alcoholic drinks in a shaker with ice, pour into a glass, carefully pour milk on top.
Happy Halloween! And remember - busting with alcoholic drinks in the evening can turn your morning into a real nightmare ...
Are you planning to prepare delicious and original cocktails for Halloween? Then our today's article is especially for you!
Remember that the main thing in cocktails for a terrible holiday is not the composition, but the appearance! Therefore, try to decorate all the drinks that you serve on this day in an original way!
Below you will find a selection of photos on decorating a cocktail, and at the end of the article you will find recipes for delicious and easy-to-prepare drinks!
To get the effect as in the picture above, just add homemade raspberry syrup to the orange juice from the syringe :).
Recipes
white witch: ½ cup ice cream (can be vanilla), 30 ml vodka, 30 ml white cocoa cream. Beat for 10-15 seconds in a blender at low speed. Pour into a glass, decorate with a straw in the form of a broom.
Black Witch: 15 ml pineapple juice, 45 ml golden rum, 1 tsp. apricot brandy, 1 tsp dark rum. Stir everything with crushed ice and place in a glass.
Black cat: 30ml vodka, 30ml cherry liqueur, cranberry juice and cola to taste. Mix vodka and liquor in a shaker, then add cranberries and cola in equal amounts to a glass.
Witch's Brew: 15 ml apricot liqueur, 15 ml grenadine, 15 ml lime juice, 15 ml vodka, 45 ml cachaca. Blend all ingredients in a blender and pour into a chilled glass.
Toad: 30 ml vodka, 15 ml mint liqueur, 45 ml cream, 45 ml milk. Mix everything and pour into a chilled glass.
Black magic: 45 ml of vodka, 45 ml of coffee liqueur, lemon juice to taste. Shake all the ingredients and pour into a pre-decorated glass.
Halloween non-alcoholic cocktails
bloody punch: 3 cups cranberry juice, 1 ½ cups apple juice, 1 ½ cups cherry juice, 2 cups cola, 1 cup frozen strawberries. Mix cranberry, apple and cherry juices and refrigerate until serving. Before serving, add cola and strawberries. To create the effect, freeze the ice in a clean cellophane glove. The sight of a hand floating in a push bowl will add fear :).
Blood soda: 1 cup corn syrup 10 drops food coloring 2 tablespoons vanilla 1 liter mineral water or lemonade We mix corn syrup, dye, lemonade (mineral water) and vanillin. Wet the rim of the glass and drizzle food coloring onto it to create bloody streaks.
Pumpkin puree:½ cup canned pumpkin, ¾ cup milk or vanilla yogurt, ¼ tsp. cinnamon, 1/8 tsp nutmeg, 2 tsp brown sugar, 4 ice cubes. Mix all ingredients and serve. This drink is very rich in taste and vitamins, so it is ideal for a children's party.
Green Slime Soda:¼ cup lime juice, 3 tbsp. sugar, 1 cup soda, 1 tablespoon sherbet. Dissolve sugar in lime juice, add soda, after final mixing add sherbet and serve.
We hope our selections and recipes will help you make delicious and fun Halloween cocktails! Happy Holidays!
Lives in the closet. Even the interior is themed. So, it's time to take care of the drinks.
Zavodila.com presents five spooky on the outside but delicious on the inside Halloween cocktails.
See recipes for awesome snacks.
1. Vampire kiss
They say that vampires are great lovers. They always start by kissing a woman's neck. And they do it with such passion that the ladies lose consciousness, and sometimes their lives ... But at the same time they retain honor! Therefore, the first cocktail is dedicated to fanged hero-lovers.
Ingredients:
Black vodka - 30 ml
Lemon juice - 15 ml
Cranberry juice - 30 ml
Champagne
lemon peel
corn syrup
Red food coloring
Cooking:
- Mix a few drops of food coloring with corn syrup in a shallow bowl.
- Dip the rim of a champagne glass into a bowl of syrup. Turn over and put on a leg so that the "blood" runs down the glass.
- In a shaker, mix vodka, lemon juice and cranberry juice. Pour into glass.
- Pour champagne into a glass, garnish with lemon peel.
2. Bubbling Blood Witch Cocktail
What's Halloween without a witch? Without that sly hag with the wart on her nose? And her smoking potions? That is what we will do. 
Ingredients:
Carbonated soda water - half a glass
White rum - a quarter of a glass
Grenadine syrup - a tablespoon
Dry ice - 1 cube.
Cooking:
- In a whiskey glass, mix rum, grenadine and water.
- Gently add the dry ice cube to the glass with tongs.
- Immediately put on the table while the "smoke" effect is in effect.
3. Storm, aka Brain Hemorrhage
The look of the cocktail is mesmerizing. Just have a drink and recharge with storm energy or someone's brains. 
Ingredients:
peach schnapps
Baileys Irish Cream liqueur
Blue Curacao Syrup
Syrup Grenadine
Cooking:
- Pour peach schnapps into a glass
- Add Baileys, carefully pouring over the blade of a knife or spoon so that the liquor stays on top.
- Add syrups.
4. Black Widow
Rumor has it that one Black Widow cocktail can turn an evil witch into a good witch, two cocktails into a lustful witch, and three into a fail-safe witch. But do not overdo it, otherwise it can turn into firewood. 
Ingredients:
Black vodka - 40 ml
Cranberry juice - 15 ml
Cocktail cherry - 1 piece
crushed ice
red sugar
Cooking:
- A small glass (a sherry glass is suitable) garnish with red sugar along the rim. To do this, moisten the rim with lemon juice and dip in sugar. Red sugar can be obtained by adding liquid food coloring to it and mixing thoroughly.
- Fill glass with ice.
- Pour cranberry juice into ¾ glass.
- Carefully pour vodka over the knife blade.
- Decorate with a cherry.
5. Jar with eyes
I think this cocktail is following me! 
Ingredients (per 300 ml glass):
Fresh (or fresh-frozen) blueberries
Canned lychees and syrup from them (or any other) - 1 tablespoon
Blueberry or blackcurrant juice - 120 ml
Lemon or lime juice - 15 ml
Carbonated water - 80 ml
Gin or vodka - 40 ml
Ice (optional)
Cooking:
- We make “eyes” by stuffing blueberries (1-2 pieces each) into lychees. A more affordable option is to cut out eyeballs from apples, pardon the pun. Wrap in foil for baking and place in the freezer for an hour. Before tossing the finished "eyes" into the glasses, let them thaw slightly so as not to accidentally choke.
- Mix juices, syrup, gin (or vodka) and pour into a tall glass.
- Add sparkling water.
- We throw our "eyes" into the glass.
Great holiday to all and a clear head in the morning!
Celebrated on the last day of October, Halloween is a fun carnival designed to imitate visits to our world by the spirits of the dead and various other evil spirits. Ever since the time of the ancient Celts who lived in the British Isles, this holiday, which marked the end of the agricultural year, was accompanied by the drinking of specially prepared ritual drinks.
Today's lovers of Halloween fun, often forgetting the traditional Celtic recipes, invent more and more new drinks that allow you to relax at a friendly party and at the same time correspond to the spirit of this unusual holiday.
Thus, when preparing for Halloween, it is important to know not only what people drank on this day hundreds and even thousands of years ago, but also how to create something new.
The essence of the holiday and its traditions
Once the celebration of Halloween, among other things, was associated with the end of the harvest of apples. Therefore, it is not surprising that the only traditional Halloween drink known to us - lembswool - is prepared on the basis of baked apples and apple cider. Whole or crushed baked apples, placed in a punch bowl, are poured with warmed cider (in a non-alcoholic version - ginger ale), flavored with sugar and various spices, and in this form are served at the festive table.
Since, with the light hand of Americans, a pumpkin has become an invariable attribute and symbol of Halloween, from which frightening Jack-o'-lanterns are carved everywhere, pumpkin juice (for children) and Pumpkin Martini (for adults) were among the popular drinks for this holiday.
By the way, before Halloween traditions, along with Scottish and Irish settlers, migrated across the ocean, turnips were a traditional material for making frightening-looking lanterns, designed to drive away evil spirits and show the souls of the dead the way to purgatory. According to an Irish legend, it was from her that the cunning and drunkard, the blacksmith Jack, who managed to circle the master of the underworld himself around his finger, cut out a lamp in which he hid a particle of hellish flame, in the vain hope of finding by its light the path leading from hell to paradise.
But back to drinks made from pumpkin, which once and for all replaced the less spectacular and more expensive turnip. Tasty and healthy pumpkin juice can be served both in pure form and mixed with carrot or apple juice. As for the Halloween martini variety, this drink is based on pumpkin and cream liqueurs, as well as vanilla vodka, although some lovers of this drink replace vodka with spiced rum, and pumpkin liqueur with raw pumpkin puree.
Given the creepy-mystical surroundings of Halloween, the alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks offered to guests should generate a cheerful fright. This result can be easily achieved by using various kinds of visual effects: giving drinks an ominous color, equipping them with various gothic decorations, or creating other impressive visual images.
So, during the celebration of Halloween, blood-red mixes and cocktails are especially popular. To do this, you should stock up on the appropriate ingredients. The first place among them is occupied by red juices: cranberry, raspberry, strawberry, tomato, etc. They are perfect for creating both "adult" and "children's" drinks. It all depends on the presence or absence of alcohol in them. Also, in order to achieve a "bloody" effect, you can use rich varieties of red wine or liqueurs of the appropriate shade.
In addition, it is worth using drinks of other colors that help create a slightly frightening or simply mysterious atmosphere. First of all, we are talking about a special English black vodka. The unusual color of the drink is achieved by adding catechu acacia extract, which grows in India and Burma. The use of this dark, greenish-bluish infernal drink in layered cocktails will no doubt impress your guests. Yes, and the use of this vodka in the preparation of "Bloody Mary" or "Screwdriver" will have an equally stunning effect.
Other dark brown and black drinks also contribute to the Halloween color scheme: a range of brandies, whiskeys, rums, balms and tinctures. Of particular note is absinthe, which not only has a sinister reputation on its own, but when mixed with water takes on a mysterious misty greenish hue.
Speaking about the serving of drinks, first of all, it is worth dwelling on various jelly dirty tricks produced specifically on the eve of the holiday. Jelly spiders, worms, slugs, cockroaches will look funny on the rim of drinks glasses or even in cocktails themselves. Especially effective in this case will be strung on cocktail skewers or jelly eyes placed on the bottom of the glass.
Some folk craftsmen go even further and create a frightening jelly frozen hand on their own. The boiled mixture of gelatin and some sweet or sour-sweet juice (or juices) is poured into a glove thoroughly washed and turned inside out, which is tied and placed in the freezer. Further, the festive accessory is removed from the freezer immediately before use and, after cutting off the glove, is dipped into the punch bowl. Moreover, this is done in such a way that the fingers and part of the brush are above the level of the drink.
In addition, Halloween drink glasses can be equipped with impressive blood streaks. To do this, their edges need to be dipped in a jelly mass of red juice that is starting to solidify, and then pulled out, quickly turned over and put in the refrigerator, where they will wait for the party to start.
Also, particularly risky hosts of the Halloween feast throw plastic skeletons, bones and skulls into glasses with opaque drinks. At the same time, the "surprise" should not be too small so that it is not accidentally swallowed.
With a little imagination with the laws of physics, you can use other fun visual effects. For example, using a cocktail tube, inject a little Baileys or other cream liqueur into a container with a strong, clear alcoholic drink; as a result, the liquor curdled into balls will look like brains in alcohol. Or, before pouring vodka or gin into a glass or shot, drop a few drops of grenadine syrup to the bottom, thereby giving the drink unambiguous vampire associations.
Witch Potion
To do this, it is advisable to first smoke a capacious vessel intended for mixing a cocktail for the whole company, giving it the appearance of a canonical witch's cauldron, and then, before pouring the necessary ingredients into it (pineapple or citrus juice, rum, vodka, or both, and third), several pieces of dry ice should be placed on the bottom.
As a result, the decoction served by you will bubble like a real sinister witchcraft brew. For greater caution, you can theatrically interfere with the potion with a stick from a fake broom or throw a handful of jelly evil spirits there. The main thing is not to touch dry ice in any case, otherwise you risk earning not fake, but the most real burn.
Halloween is a great occasion to show imagination and ingenuity. Don't be afraid to experiment with the most unexpected ingredients. And finally, don't forget to come up with some suitable, creepy names for your infernal creations.
