About twenty years ago, the word “Halloween” was associated among our compatriots either with the horror film of the same name, or with the killer rock band “Halloween”. Few people knew that the bourgeoisie had been celebrating All Saints' Day with pleasure for a long time. No one could have imagined that this could be so terribly fun! Halloween isn't just about creepy costumes, it's about equally creepy food and drinks! Moreover, everything about them is terrible: both the names and the appearance. An eye pinned on a fork, brains in a plate, glasses with drinks the color of blood or swamp gas glowing deathly in the dark... Brrr!.. Horror! Horrible!
We’ll talk about how to create all this horror in your kitchen by preparing cocktails for Halloween. In order for your party to be imbued with the spirit of gothic and trash, you don’t need to run to a specialized creepy joke store or learn how to cook super-complicated dishes and drinks. There are a lot of tricks and little things that will help turn an ordinary dish into something unimaginably terrible. For example, a cocktail decoration in the shape of a bloody eye looks creepy, but is easy to make. Take a radish and peel the skin so that red veins remain on the white background. Cut the center to size 
olive. Stuff the olive with red pepper or blueberries. We assemble our bloody eye: insert an olive into a radish and prick this structure onto a cocktail stick.
You can also make a wonderful life-like eye from the Chinese lychee fruit: dry the lychee fruit, fill it with bright red jam, insert a blueberry and stick 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 creepy ice cubes in your glasses.
Ice in the shape of a severed hand in a bowl of punch - how do you like this surprise? Your guests will appreciate it! Take a clean glove and fill it with water or juice. Remember that not all juices freeze! Place the filled glove in the freezer. Before removing your “hand” from the glove, dip it in boiling water for a few seconds. You can freeze gelatin worms and spiders into ice cubes to make great ice for witch drinks!
It’s also not difficult to entwine a glass of drink with a disgusting web. Melt dark chocolate in milk or cream, draw it into a disposable syringe and quickly apply a spider web design to the inside walls of the glass. It is clear that the drink must be transparent.
Well, the classics of the genre - bloody smudges - are generally simple. Mix bright red 
opaque juice with swollen gelatin, heat until the gelatin dissolves and cool slightly. Dip the edges of the glasses into the resulting “blood” and quickly turn them over so that the drops flow picturesquely down the glass. To make it even more similar, put a few bruises on the sides of the glasses and put the glasses in the refrigerator.
Bright red grenadine syrup will help you turn even an ordinary shot of vodka into a vampire drink: pour grenadine to the bottom of the glass, add ice and carefully pour in the vodka so that the grenadine remains at the bottom.
Halloween cocktails must come in incredible colors! Absinthe, which when mixed with water gives a cloudy green color, liqueurs of all shades of red, blue liqueur “Hpnotiq”, as well as black vodka, come in very handy. Black vodka is generally a godsend for a horror movie-themed party. Even the classic “Bloody Mary” with black vodka looks completely different, like Halloween, or something...
The cocktail, which looks like brains in a glass, turns out to be disgusting in appearance and delicious in taste. It is also easy to prepare: in any strong alcoholic drink you need to carefully add Baileys liqueur. This is done using a cocktail straw - we put liquor into the straw, hold it with your finger so that the liquor does not flow out, and release it into a glass with vodka or gin. At the same time, the liquor curls into balls. If the trick doesn't work, then drink the failed cocktail and start over.
Well, we've sorted out the decoration, now it's time for the recipes. Halloween cocktails are mostly simple and do not require mastery of a shaker. If you can pour layers of cocktail without stirring - great!
Ingredients:
80 g strawberry vodka,
40 g Baileys liqueur,
20 lime or lemon juice,
grenadine,
straw.
Preparation:
Mix vodka and lime juice in a shaker, strain through a strainer into a glass. Squeeze some liquor into the straw, pinch the top end with your finger and lower the straw into the vodka. Slowly release your finger and release the liquor in thick threads. Add grenadine, stir a little.
Cocktail "Bloody Mary" for a vampire
Ingredients:
60 ml vodka,
120 g tomato juice,
½ tsp. grated horseradish
a few drops of hot sauce.
Preparation:
Fill the edges and walls of the glass with streams of “blood” and place the glass in the refrigerator. When the drops of “blood” have frozen, put ice in a glass, pour in vodka, add horseradish, drop hot sauce and add tomato sauce. Stir and garnish with a sprig of celery and a bloody eye of radish.
Bloody Mary variant(for 4 servings):
3 cups of tomato juice,
½ cup vodka,
3 tbsp. grated horseradish
2 tbsp. l. soy sauce,
3 tsp hot sauce,
1 lemon (juice),
¼ tsp. ground pepper.
Ingredients:
50 ml vodka,
50 ml champagne,
20 ml raspberry liqueur.
Preparation:
Decorate the rim of the glass with drops of “blood”. Pour vodka, 10 ml of liqueur into a glass, then champagne. Pour the remaining liqueur into the bottom along the knife to form a sediment.
"Bloody Martini"
Ingredients:
60 ml flavored vodka,
30 ml bright red thick berry juice,
15 ml lime or lemon juice,
20-30 ml of champagne.
Preparation:
Mix vodka with juice and ice and shake. Strain into a martini glass, top with champagne, and garnish with a wedge of lime.
Cocktail “Siren's Song”
Ingredients:
90 ml champagne,
30 ml ginger ale,
15 ml raspberry liqueur,
15 ml raspberry puree.
Preparation:
Combine all ingredients and mix thoroughly until smooth. Don't forget about decorations!
Another ladies' cocktail -
Ingredients:
45 ml absinthe,
20 ml almond syrup,
15 ml lime juice,
20-30 ml of champagne,
3-4 cherries,
ground nutmeg.
Preparation:
Mash the cherries with the syrup and lime juice, add absinthe and ice, shake. Strain into a prepared glass, pour champagne on top, sprinkle with nutmeg. Garnish with a cherry on a skewer.
"Pino Colada"
Ingredients:
60 ml rum,
30 ml coconut milk,
90 ml pineapple juice.
Preparation:
Cover the edges of the glasses and the outside walls with streaks of “blood.” Combine ingredients in a blender with ice and pour into a glass. Against the background of a white cocktail, the crimson streaks look very contrasting.
"Graveyard Ghost"
Ingredients:
60 ml black vodka,
60 ml cream liqueur,
1 scoop of vanilla ice cream
grated nutmeg.
Preparation:
Mix vodka and liqueur. Place a scoop of ice cream at the bottom of the glass and fill with the alcohol mixture. Sprinkle with nutmeg. Drink it right away.
Ingredients:
45 ml black vodka,
½ cup freshly squeezed tangerine juice,
¼ cup ice.
Preparation:
Pour ice into a tall glass and add juice. Using a knife blade or using a teaspoon, carefully add black vodka, being careful not to mix the layers.
Ingredients:
30 ml black vodka,
60 ml cherry juice,
ice,
raspberries and strawberries for decoration.
Preparation:
Mix vodka and juice vigorously. Pour into a martini glass, add ice, and garnish with a toothpick and berries.
Cocktail “Crazy Eyes”
Ingredients:
15 ml blue liqueur,
30 ml vodka,
60 ml lychee juice,
1 lychee fruit for decoration,
some red jam
1 blueberry.
Preparation:
Mix vodka, liqueur and juice in a shaker, shake, pour into a glass. Make a crazy “eye”, put it on a cocktail stick, and place it on a glass.
TOcocktail "Hypnosis"
Ingredients:
60 ml blue liqueur,
30 ml vodka,
5 ml lemon juice,
ice,
glow stick for decoration.
Preparation:
Combine 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.
Preparation:
Mix liqueur, absinthe and pineapple juice in a shaker with ice, strain into a glass. Pour lime juice on top and add grenadine. A drop of bright grenadine blurs in the glass, evoking associations with poison.
Ingredients:
30 ml Chartreuse liqueur,
30 ml absinthe,
10 ml green Curacao,
50-75 ml milk,
ice.
Preparation:
Mix alcoholic beverages in a glass with ice, then carefully pour in cold milk, being careful not to mix the layers.
"Double Risk"
Ingredients:
45 ml nut liqueur,
45 ml black sambuca,
100 ml milk,
1 scoop of vanilla ice cream,
ice.
Preparation:
Combine all ingredients except milk in a tall glass with ice. Then use a knife to pour in the milk to create a contrasting black and white drink. Place a scoop of ice cream on top. The cocktail is served with a pair of straws and a long-handled ice cream scoop.
Ingredients:
45 ml vodka,
45 ml lime juice,
sugar for decoration,
ice.
Preparation:
Moisten the edge of the glass with water and dip it in sugar, you will get “frost”. In a blender, whisk vodka with juice and ice, carefully pour into a glass, garnish with a slice of lime.
Ingredients:
30 ml vodka,
30 ml coffee liqueur,
15 ml Baileys liqueur,
15 ml schnapps with creamy toffee flavor,
150 ml milk.
Preparation:
Mix alcoholic drinks in a shaker with ice, pour into a glass, and carefully pour milk on top.
"Dracula's Cloak"
Ingredients:
30 ml vodka,
15 ml grenadine,
150 ml Cola,
cherry for decoration.
Preparation:
Pour grenadine into the bottom of a tall glass, add ice, and pour in vodka. Then carefully pour in the Cola so as not to mix the layers. Decorate with cherries.
Cocktail “Hellraisers”
Ingredients:
15 ml melon liqueur,
15 ml strawberry liqueur,
15 ml mint liqueur,
15 ml sambuca.
Prigo
cooking:
Carefully pour into a tall glass, without stirring, layers of melon liqueur, then strawberry, mint and on top - a black layer of sambuca. This is a very complex cocktail, but if you manage to do everything correctly, then success is guaranteed!
And finally, a knock-down cocktail with an expressive name. A drink for the most persistent!
Ingredients:
15 ml tequila,
15 ml vodka,
15 ml bourbon.
Preparation:
Pour all ingredients into a shot glass, starting with the tequila. Do not stir. Drink in one gulp.
Happy Halloween! And remember - too much alcohol in the evening can turn your morning into a real nightmare...
Larisa Shuftaykina
Halloween is a great occasion to organize a friendly party. To make the holiday a success, you need not only to develop a script, but also to carefully consider the menu. Today's article will present an interesting selection of Halloween cocktail recipes.
In order for your party to go as planned, you need to try to do everything possible to create the appropriate atmosphere. And decorations on glasses will help you with this. They do not necessarily need to be purchased in specialized stores. Today, there are many ways to turn an ordinary drink into a terrible potion.
For example, you can decorate a cocktail glass with eyes made from the Chinese lychee fruit. To do this, it is filled with bright red jam, stuffed with blueberries and pricked onto a straw.
To create the appropriate atmosphere, glasses can be entwined with cobwebs. To do this, dark chocolate is melted with a small amount of milk or cream, and then drawn into a syringe and a pattern is drawn. Such a web looks especially impressive on glass glasses filled with a transparent drink.
You can make bloody smudges on the walls of the glasses. To do this, the red juice is combined with swollen gelatin, heated and cooled slightly. The edges of the glasses are dipped into the resulting mixture and quickly turned over so that drops begin to flow down the glass walls.
A stunning effect can be achieved by pouring a little grenadine into the bottom of a glass with ice.
This unusual smoothie contains no alcohol at all. Therefore, it can be offered not only to adults, but also to young guests. To prepare it you will need:
This is one of the simplest without alcoholic cocktails for Halloween. To prepare it, peeled bananas, ice, milk, pumpkin and other ingredients are placed in a blender bowl. Whisk everything well until smooth, pour into tall glasses and serve.
This one is delicious and will definitely be appreciated by little guests. It successfully combines berries, ice cream and fruit juice. To prepare a cocktail you will need:
Place blueberries whipped in a blender on the bottom of the glasses. Place strawberry puree on top, diluted with a small amount of citrus juice. All this is covered with the remains of fresh orange juice mixed with ice cream.
Since this drink contains alcohol, it should not be given to children. To make this alcoholic cocktail for Halloween, you will need:
First of all, you need to start preparing the glasses. Their edges are carefully lowered into melted chocolate. Then the cocktail itself, made from vodka, liqueur and ice mixed in a shaker, is carefully poured into the glasses. A pair of chocolate spiders are thrown into each serving of the drink.
It is one of the most popular drinks and is often served on Halloween. The recipe for an alcoholic cocktail involves the use of a non-standard set of components, so prepare in advance:
You need to start the process by preparing the glasses. Their edges are moistened with water and then carefully dipped into sugar mixed with green dye. A cocktail made from lemon juice, schnapps, liqueur, vanilla vodka and champagne is poured into a glass treated in this way. Dry ice is carefully placed on top, which will give the finished drink an intimidating and mysterious look.
This delicious orange drink will be a real decoration for a party organized especially for Halloween. The cocktail recipe, a photo of which can be found in this article, requires a certain set of ingredients. Therefore, make sure in advance that you have at hand at the right time:
Mix vodka, pumpkin juice and vermouth in one vessel. The resulting liquid is seasoned with black pepper, poured into glasses and decorated with mint. This drink is served with ice.
We draw your attention to another interesting cocktail for Halloween. This drink has a bright orange hue and a pleasant citrus aroma. To prepare it you will need:
All liquid ingredients are mixed in a shaker, shaken and poured into glasses. A little ice is also sent there, and orange slices are placed on top.
This fun Halloween cocktail uses simple ingredients that are readily available in every home bar. To prepare it you will need:
All ingredients, with the exception of the last two, are mixed in a shaker, shaken vigorously and poured into two small glasses. Lemonade and grenadine are also added there.
The process of preparing this interesting drink takes a certain amount of time. Therefore, you need to start it a few hours before the intended party. To do this, you should have at hand:
Some of the available candies are poured with vodka, covered with a lid and left for the whole night. Then they combine in a shaker egg white, orange liqueur and lemon juice. Add 100 milliliters of vodka and ice there. All this is shaken vigorously and poured into glasses. The remaining vodka with candy is added to the finished drink.
All liquid ingredients are combined in one container, mixed and poured into glasses. The finished cocktail is decorated with apple slices. For those who want to achieve an unusual effect, we can recommend adding ice cubes to the drink. Then it will start to bubble.
This tasty and moderately strong drink is ideal for a Halloween party. The cocktail is different simple composition and has a milky tint. To prepare it you will need:
Ghost faces are drawn on the glasses with a black marker and then filled with ice and a drink made from a mixture of all the liquid ingredients. The finished cocktail is served to guests.
Halloween party participants can be offered another interesting cocktail. To prepare it you will need:
The washed fruits are cut into small cubes and placed at the bottom of a large jug. Caramel syrup, vodka, apple cider and white wine are also added there. Mix everything well and put it in the refrigerator. No earlier than four hours later, the drink is poured into glasses and served to guests.
To prepare a drink with such an unusual name, no expensive or rare ingredients are needed. This time you will need:
Chilled champagne is poured into previously prepared glasses. Then they add it there Orange juice and black vodka. The finished cocktail is decorated with olives on skewers, inside which a little mozzarella is placed.
When creating a holiday themed party, decorations will be required even for cocktails, and we will provide ideas for such decoration below.
Punch is often called the Halloween potion. You can decorate and paint it to your taste, but we decided to stick to the very original version– punch with a severed hand.
Ingredients:
Preparation
Mix cranberry juice with lemonade and lime wedges. Leave the drink to cool until served.
Meanwhile, prepare the main decorative element. For the severed hand, fill a regular rubber glove with water. The water in the glove can be tinted if desired, or placed in it gummy worms or spiders. Filled gloves should be tied and left horizontally in the freezer until completely hardened.
Remove the seals from your frozen hands (you might even break off a couple of icy fingers) and put them in the drink.
The Halloween potion recipe will benefit from jelly vampire teeth and spiders, as well as streaks of blood flowing from the punch bowl.
For the simplest Halloween mocktail, all you need is Sprite, some ice, grenadine syrup and a few syringes.
Grenadine in syringes imitates blood and will dissolve beautifully when combined with syrup. So that guests do not miss all this beauty, they will mix the ingredients themselves.
Fill small syringes with grenadine.
Pour the Sprite into glasses, put ice, and just before serving, put the Spitz in them.
To make Halloween-themed non-alcoholic cocktails even more festive, you can add ice cubes with plastic spiders frozen in them. Instruct your guests to drink this additive through a straw for safety reasons.
Ingredients:
For the cocktail:
For "blood":
Preparation
Prepare “blood” for decorating glasses. To do this, mix a couple drops of gel food coloring with corn syrup.
Dip glasses and glasses into the syrup, swirl and turn over, watching the fake blood run down the edges.
Mix the cocktail ingredients and pour them into decorated glasses. If desired, each glass can be supplemented with plastic vampire teeth.
When planning a Halloween party, cocktail recipes take a back seat to the decorations. It is still important to pay special attention to the decoration of the glasses, which will definitely delight all the guests!
If you haven't decided yet whether to celebrate Halloween, it's fun and interesting. Cocktails play an important part in it. Surprise your friends interesting recipes cocktails that will fit perfectly into the party environment.
1. Bloody Mary
There is perhaps 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 brutal, bloody reprisals against unwanted townspeople. When serving a cocktail, tell your friends a mysterious English legend. It is believed that if you say “Bloody Mary” 3 times while standing in front of a mirror in a dark room, you can see the queen’s ghost.
Ingredients:
Tomato juice 250 ml
Vodka 100 ml
Soy sauce 1 tsp.
Smoked paprika 1 tsp.
Ground black pepper 1/2 tsp.
Lemon juice 2 tsp.
Shake in a shaker soy sauce, paprika, pepper and lemon juice. Top up tomato juice and beat everything well again. Pour into glasses. Pour vodka over the knife so that it does not mix with the mixture of juices and seasonings. 
2. Grog
On such an ominously cold night, it would be nice to warm up. Grog will cope with this task perfectly. This is a hot alcoholic drink with spices. The spice mixture is brought to a boil, and then rum is poured into it. Cognac or whiskey can also serve as an alcoholic 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's Kiss
What Halloween party would be complete without a vampire? Only on this day do you and your guests have a chance to receive a vampire's kiss. You just need to prepare the appropriate cocktail.
Ingredients:
Orange juice 120 ml
Vodka 40 ml
Cherry juice 20 ml
Sprite to taste
Liquorice 1 stick
Pour orange juice, vodka and cherry juice into a tall glass. Pour sprite on top and garnish with a stick of licorice. 
4. Witch's potion
Another indispensable guest of the Halloween party is the insidious witch. Even if you are not going to have a coven in your apartment, let the witch's potion appear on your table. If this evening you try on a witch costume, then show off your acting skills. Charm your guests and offer the hostess' signature potion.
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 jelly packet into a saucepan, add hot water and stir until completely dissolved. Then add other ingredients. Let cool until room temperature. 
5. Black cat
Let a black cat run into your party. Preparing such a cocktail will take very little time, and good luck will accompany you all year. After all, today we interpret all signs exactly the opposite.
Ingredients:
Raspberry liqueur 15 ml
Black vodka 60 m
Ice 1 glass
Mix raspberry liqueur, black vodka and ice well in a shaker. Pour into a chilled martini glass. 
6. Light and darkness
And this cocktail reminds us 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 orange. A circle of this fruit in a glass will be a symbol of light prevailing over the 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 Pumpkin
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 actually used almost everywhere: in preparing themed dishes, in table decoration. Don't forget about pumpkin when mixing cocktails. The result will be a very original and piquant drink. Get ready to share the recipe with your friends.
Ingredients:
Pumpkin juice 0.5 l
Vermouth 0.5 l
Vodka 100 ml
Coarse black pepper 2 tablespoons
Mint several leaves
Ice to taste
Grind the mint in a mortar. Place in a jug, add pumpkin juice. Pour in vermouth and vodka, add pepper, stir. Pour the cocktail into glasses. Add ice. 
8. Drops of blood
And here it is non-alcoholic cocktail in case there are children or teetotal witches in your company. You can prepare 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 sauce) to taste
Whipped cream to taste
Beat milk and ice cream in a blender. Pour into a glass. Top with whipped cream and raspberry syrup. 
Waiting in the closet. And even the interior is themed. So, it's time to take care of the drinks.
Zavodila.com presents five spooky-on-the-outside, delicious-on-the-inside Halloween cocktails.
See recipes for scary snacks.
They say that vampires are great lovers. They always start by kissing the woman's neck. And they do it with such passion that the ladies lose consciousness, and sometimes even their lives... But at the same time they maintain 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
Preparation:
What's Halloween without a witch? Without this sly hag with a wart on her nose? And her smoking potions? This is exactly what we will do. 
Ingredients:
Sparkling soda water – half a glass
White rum – a quarter glass
Grenadine syrup - tablespoon
Dry ice – 1 cube.
Preparation:
The look of the cocktail is mesmerizing. Just drink and get charged with the energy of the storm or someone's brains. 
Ingredients:
Peach schnapps
Baileys Irish Cream
Blue Curacao syrup
Grenadine syrup
Preparation:
Rumor has it that one Black Widow cocktail can turn an evil witch into a good witch, two cocktails into a lusty witch, and three into a trouble-free witch. But don’t overdo it, otherwise it may turn into firewood. 
Ingredients:
Black vodka – 40 ml
Cranberry juice – 15 ml
Cocktail cherry – 1 piece
Crushed ice
Red sugar
Preparation:
I think this cocktail is following me! 
Ingredients (per 300 ml glass):
Fresh (or frozen) blueberries
Canned lychees and their syrup (or any other) – 1 tablespoon
Blueberry or blackcurrant juice – 120 ml
Lemon or lime juice – 15 ml
Sparkling water – 80 ml
Gin or vodka – 40 ml
Ice (optional)
Preparation:
Have a great holiday and a clear head in the morning!
