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Halloween Spirits: Recipes for Spooky Cocktails

Looking for a tasty way to toast Halloween?

While kids are busy sifting through candy and other Halloween goodies, adults looking to indulge a bit have some frightfully delicious new concoctions to try  thanks to BevMo!’s Top 12 Halloween Cocktails.

Candy Corn Martini                                                    

  • ¼ cup candy corn                                      
  • 4 ounces Grey Goose Vodka                               
  • BevMo! Tonic Water
  • Garnish with orange sprinkles            

Black Cloud Martini

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  •  ½ cup Boylan’s orange soda                                         
  • 1 cup orange juice
  • 1 shot Bauchant Orange Liqueur
  • 2 shots Blavod Black Vodka
  • 2 licorice wheels

Ghost Goblet

  • 3 ounces UV Cake Vodka                               
  • 2 ounces half & half
  • 1 scoop vanilla ice cream                             
  • 1 cup ice
  • Garnish with 1 Peeps Ghost marshmallow

Bleeding Heart Martini                                                            

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  • 2 ounces Dolin De Chambery Dry Vermouth
  • 8 ounces G’vine Floraison Gin
  • 4 Pickled Baby Beets, and Mezzetta Pickles Cocktail Onions each placed on a cocktail skewer
  • Ice cubes

Blood Orange Shots                                                    

  • 1 1/2 cups fresh blood-orange juice (from 7 to 8 blood oranges), chilled
  • 6 tablespoons Solerno Blood-Orange Liqueur

Witches Brew                                                                                 

  • 1 cup water, as needed
  • 2 (1.5 fluid ounce) Stirrings Grenadine Syrup, or as desired (optional)
  • Large plastic cauldron (from party store)
  • 2 gallons orange juice
  • 2 (2 liter) bottles lemon-lime soda
  • 1 liter Three Olives Vodka
  • 2 bottles Charles Ninot Sparkling Wine Brut (but one bottle and get the second for 5 cents!)
  • 2 gallons orange sherbet
  • 1 cup peeled green grapes (optional)

 Bloody Tooth Cocktail                                                            

  • 1 1/2 ounces Bullet Straight Rye Whiskey
  • 1 1/2 ounces pomegranate juice
  • 1 ounce Stirrings Simple Syrup
  • 1/2 ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice
  • Ice cubes
  • Pomegranate seeds, for garnish
  • Lemon twist, for garnish

 Black Lagoon Cocktail                                                                 

  • 2 ounces Skyy Vodka
  • 1 ounce of Blue Curacao Liqueur
  • Martinelli’s Lemonade
  • Ice

Ghost in the Graveyard                                                                

  • 2 ounces Absolute 100 Proof Black Vodka
  • 2 ounces creme de cacao or coffee-flavored liqueur
  • 1 scoop vanilla ice cream
  • Pinch of finely grated nutmeg, for garnish

 

 

 

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