Celebrated on the last day of October, Halloween is a fun carnival designed to imitate the visit of our world by the spirits of the dead and various other evil spirits. Since the times of the ancient Celts who lived in the British Isles, this holiday, marking the end of the agricultural year, was accompanied by the drinking of specially prepared ritual drinks.
Today's Halloween lovers, often forgetting traditional Celtic recipes, are inventing more and more new drinks that allow them 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.
Once upon a time, the celebration of Halloween, among other things, was associated with the end of the apple harvest. Therefore, it is not surprising that the only traditional Halloween drink known to us - lambswool - is prepared on the basis of baked apples and apple cider. Whole or crushed baked apples, placed in a punch bowl, are poured with heated cider (in the non-alcoholic version - ginger ale), flavored with sugar and various spices, and in this form are served at the festive table.
Since with light hand Americans have become an invariable attribute and symbol of Halloween, the pumpkin from which terrifying Jack-O-Lanterns are everywhere carved, then pumpkin juice (for children) and “Pumpkin Martini” (for adults) were among the popular drinks for this holiday.
By the way, before Halloween traditions, together with Scottish and Irish settlers, migrated overseas, turnips were the traditional material for making frightening-looking lanterns designed to ward off evil spirits and show the souls of the dead the way to purgatory. According to the Irish legend, it was from her that the cunning and drunkard blacksmith Jack, who managed to deceive the master of the underworld himself, carved a lamp in which he hid a particle of hellish flame, in the vain hope of using its light to find the path leading from hell to heaven.
But let's return 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 either pure or mixed with carrot or apple juice. As for the Halloween Martini, the drink is made with pumpkin liqueur, butter liqueur, and vanilla vodka, although some drinkers substitute spiced rum for the vodka and raw pumpkin puree for the pumpkin liqueur.
Considering the eerie and mystical surroundings of Halloween, alcoholic and soft drinks should generate cheerful fear. 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.
Thus, during Halloween celebrations, 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 betel acacia extract, which grows in India and Burma. Using this dark, greenish-bluish tint of the infernal drink in layered cocktails will undoubtedly impress your guests. And using this vodka when preparing a “Bloody Mary” or “Screwdriver” will have an equally stunning effect.
Other drinks that are dark brown and black in color also contribute to the Halloween color scheme: a number of brandies, whiskeys, rums, balms and liqueurs. Particularly worth mentioning is absinthe, which not only has an ominous reputation in itself, but when mixed with water it takes on a mysterious, hazy greenish hue.
Speaking about serving drinks, first of all it is worth focusing on the various jelly dirty tricks produced specially on the eve of the holiday. Jelly spiders, worms, slugs, cockroaches will look funny on the edges of glasses with drinks or even in the cocktails themselves. In this case, jelly eyes strung on cocktail skewers or placed at the bottom of a glass will be especially effective.
Some folk craftsmen go even further and create a terrifying jelly frozen hand on their own. The boiled mixture of gelatin and some sweet or sour-sweet juice (or juices) is poured into a thoroughly washed glove, turned inside out, which is tied and placed in the freezer. Next, the holiday accessory is removed from the freezer immediately before use and, after cutting off the glove, it is dipped into a bowl of punch. Moreover, this is done in such a way that the fingers and part of the hand are above the level of the drink.
Plus, your Halloween drink glasses can be outfitted with impressive blood stains. To do this, their edges need to be dipped into the jelly mass of red juice, which is beginning to harden, 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 Halloween feasts throw plastic skeletons, bones and skulls into glasses of opaque drinks. In this case, the “surprise” should not be too small so that it is accidentally swallowed.
With a little imagination with the laws of physics, you can use other fun visual effects. For example, using a cocktail straw, inject a little Baileys or other cream liqueur into a container with a strong, clear alcoholic drink; As a result, the liqueur curled into balls will resemble brains preserved in alcohol. Or, before pouring vodka or gin into a glass or shot, add a few drops of grenadine syrup to the bottom, thereby giving the drink unambiguous vampire associations.
To do this, it is advisable to first thoroughly smoke the outside of a spacious vessel intended for mixing a cocktail for the whole company, giving it the appearance of a canonical witch’s cauldron, and then before pouring it into it necessary ingredients(pineapple or citrus juices, rum, vodka, or both), you should put several pieces of dry ice on the bottom.
As a result, the broth you serve will bubble like a real sinister witchcraft brew. To make things even worse, you can theatrically stir the potion with a stick from a fake broom or throw a handful of jelly evil spirits into it. The main thing is to never touch dry ice, otherwise you risk getting not a fake burn, but a real burn.
Halloween is a great opportunity to show your imagination and ingenuity. Don't be afraid to experiment with unexpected ingredients. And finally, don’t forget to come up with some appropriate, chill-inducing names for your infernal creations.
The scariest holiday of the year is approaching (I’m not taking into account the classic Yuletide binge). I want to throw a party on Halloween noisy party. But how can you become the most original housewife without extra costs?
Thematic decoration of the house according to all canons will cost a pretty penny. Therefore, we will make do with a minimum amount of terrible tinsel. Each invitee will make their own costumes and makeup. Here you clearly cannot influence the choice of images, otherwise you risk turning the general fun into a social event with a mandatory dress code. All that remains is to decorate the table in an original way.
On Halloween, rarely does anyone overeat on salads and squeeze in an extra portion of chicken and mashed potatoes. But the drinks are selling with a bang. Agree, any gatherings in an adult company are not complete without some intoxicating drinks.
Since we're going to have to buy booze anyway, let's give the usual products a dark aura. Guests will remember your unique cocktails for a long time, if, of course, they know when to use them in moderation.
Cooking method
Place the berry in the opening from the seed. Secure the structure with a toothpick. Throw into a glass and pour over the martini.
Cooking method
Thread blackberries onto decorative skewers (you can use sprigs of lavender or any other flowers with a stiff stem). Put the decor aside for now.
Mix vodka with lemon juice. Along the tip of a knife, carefully pour in the ingredients in layers in the following order: cream liqueur, berry liqueur, syrup, vodka and juice. Carefully place the blackberry skewers into the liquid. Bring smoke from dry ice into the glass.
The preparation method for the lazy involves simply mixing the ingredients and adding dry ice directly into the glass before serving. Either way, this Halloween cocktail will unleash your guests' alternate personalities.
Cooking method
Mix the ingredients in a blender until smooth. Pour into glasses, add ice. Place the candies on toothpicks. Insert into prepared cocktail.
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 pour 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.
For greater festivity non-alcoholic cocktails Halloween style can be supplemented with 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!
