Halloween 2020: Tasty cocktails to make at home during spooky season
14 October 2020, 13:54 | Updated: 29 October 2020, 16:57
Halloween might look a bit different this year due to coronavirus, so why not treat yourself to a special cocktail to celebrate spooky season in style?
Halloween is a night for spirits... but don't let them bother you, invite them to join the party!
If you're having a night in then try out these recipes for size.
Don't worry if you haven't got the specific brands or more unusual ingredients to hand, experiment with what you've got in the cupboard and see where your imagination takes you.
After all, what is October 31st without the booos?
Smoky Halloween Colada
Ingredients:
60ml Casamigos Mezcal
20 ml Fresh Lime Juice
20 ml Fresh Pineapple Juice
20 ml. Coconut Puree by REAL
10ml Ginger Syrup by Liber & Co.
10 ml. Grenadine
½ Thick Rim Equal Parts Sugar/Black Lava Salt
Method:
Wet ½ rim of glass with lime wedge or wheel and dip into sugar/black lava salt mixture.
Pour .5 oz grenadine directly into clear Tiki or hurricane glass.
Combine the rest of the ingredients into tin shaker. Add ice, shake vigorously and strain into clear Tiki glass or hurricane glass.
Add pebble ice, and fill to top creating a dome like top, then garnish.
Casa Teal Candy Martini
Ingredients:
60ml Casamigos Blanco Tequila
30ml Fresh Lemon Juice
30ml Fresh Pineapple Juice
15ml Blue Curacao
10ml Simple Syrup
Method:
Combine all ingredients into tin shaker. Add ice, shake vigorously and strain into martini glass.
Add ice cubes and garnish.
Diablesse Sticky Toffee Pudding
Ingredients:
35ml Diablesse Gold Rum
15ml Oloroso Sherry
15ml Date & Miso Syrup*
Custard to float
Method:
Add the first 3 ingredients to a mixing glass and stir over ice. Strain into an Old Fashioned Glass over fresh ice. Make the custard lighter by briefly shaking or whipping and float over the top of the cocktail using a spoon. Garnish with fresh grated Nutmeg.
* For Date & Miso Syrup: Combine 330g Date Syrup (or Nectar) with 2 tbsp Red Miso Paste (or to taste) to a pan and heat gently. Stir until the miso has fully dissolved.
Caramel Apple Crumble
Ingredients:
35ml King of Soho London Dry Gin
15ml Sourz Apple
35ml Apple Juice
15ml Monin Caramel Syrup
Method:
Shake all ingredients well and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with apple.
Nightmare of Brookie Street
Ingredients:
45ml Brookie’s Dry Gin
20ml Lemon juice
15ml Pineapple juice
10ml Sugar syrup
1 x dash of Cardamom bitters
10ml Aquafaba / egg white
30ml Brookie’s Slow Gin (pour on top)
Method:
Shake with ice and double stain into an Old Fashioned glass.
Rob Roy
How to make an Ardbeg Wee Beastie Rob Roy cocktail
Ingredients:
60ml Ardbeg Wee Beastie
30ml sweet vermouth
2 dashes Angostura bitters
Lemon or orange twist to garnish
Method:
Combine ingredients in a mixing glass and fill with ice. Stir well for about 20 seconds, then strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Twist a piece of lemon or orange peel over the drink and use as garnish.
Wildcat Devilishly Dark Martini
Ingredients:
37.5ml Wildcat Bramble (Tesco, £26)
12.5ml berry liquor
50ml Pineapple Juice
Method:
Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake with ice. Double strain into a martini glass and garnish with blackberries.
Spiced Passionfruit Gin Punch
Ingredients:
50ml Kopparberg Passionfruit & Orange Gin
200ml ginger beer
2 drops angostura bitters
Cinnamon stick and orange wheel to garnish
Method:
Build in the glass. Pour 50ml Kopparberg Passionfruit & Orange Gin over cubed ice.
Top with ginger beer and 2 drops of angostura bitters. Stir gently to ensure ingredients are combined.
Garnish with an orange wheel and stick of cinnamon.
Cherry Storm
Ingredients:
50ml Kopparberg Cherry Spiced Rum
200ml ginger ale
Half a lime (juiced)
2 teaspoons brown sugar
Lime wedge
Method:
Build in the glass. Combine the juice of half a lime, 2 teaspoons of brown in the bottom of a high ball glass and mix well.
Fill glass with cubed ice. Top with ginger ale. Pour 50ml Kopparberg Cherry Spiced Rum over the top.
Garnish with skewered lime wedge. Skål! (That's Swedish for Cheers!)
Dark Fruit & Basil Mojito
Ingredients:
50ml Kopparberg Dark Fruit Spiced Rum
150ml soda water
2 teaspoon brown sugar
5 basil leaves
Lime wedge & blackberries to garnish
Method:
Build in the glass. Add 5 basil leaves to a highball glass with soft brown sugar and the juice of half a lime. Muddle gently and pour in 50ml Kopparberg Dark Fruit Spiced Rum and 125ml soda water.
Add crushed ice, churn gently and garnish with a wheel of lime, sprig of basil and blackberry.
Irish Orchard
Ingredients:
50ml Bushmills 10 Year Old Single Malt Whiskey (The Whiskey Shop, RRP £35)
75ml Dry Cider
30ml Soda
25ml Pressed Apple Juice
Method:
Build all the ingredients in a highball glass, add cubed ice and garnish with an apple fan.
Elayne's Jalapeno Daiquiri
Ingredients:
2 oz Copalli White Rum
½ oz rich simple syrup
1 jalapeño slice
1 oz fresh lime juice
2 oz Copalli White Rum
Method:
Served in a rocks glass: with 1 large cube.
Garnished with lime wheel and very thin slice of a jalapeño.
The Tiki
Ingredients:
45ml Don Papa 10
22ml Velvet Falernum
30ml Pineapple juice
15ml Lime juice
15ml Blue Curacao
Method:
Combine in a shaker, pour over ice.
The Boëhaunted House
Ingredients:
60ml Boë Gin Apple & Lime
20ml lime simple syrup
Half shell of lime juice
1 teaspoon lime marmalade (for added flavour but not essential)
Basil leaves
Liquorice laces
Egg whites
Ice cubes
Butterfly pea flowers (available from supermarkets)
Method:
1. Add a handful of butterfly pea flowers to a teacup or jug and top with 100ml boiling water. Leave to steep. This will create that vibrant violet colour to your drink.
2. To make the simple syrup, combine 300g caster sugar, 150ml water and the juice and zest of 1 lime in a pot and simmer until dissolved (100g sugar to 100ml water). Strain out zest before using.
3. Cut the liquorice laces into four 6cm strands. Wrap another lace around in the middle and loop through to secure.
4. Add all other ingredients to a shaker and muddle basil. Seal the shaker and shake without ice for 30 seconds.
5. Once foamy, fill the shaker with the ice and shake again for another 30 seconds.
6. Strain the shaker contents into a glass of choice and use the liquorice spider to the side.
7. Your butterfly pea tea should be lovely and purple by now.8. Pour 30ml of the butterfly pea tea over the drink to achieve a purple float
Mysterious Martini
Ingredients:
50ml i heart Gin
15ml dry vermouth
2 drops homemade fake blood (dissolve 7g of caster sugar into 44g of red liquid food colouring)
Sugar
Method:
Prep the martini glass by moistening the rim and dipping it into sugar to get the frosted look on the glass. Add the gin and vermouth to a cocktail shaker with ice to dilute. Strain into a martini glass. Garnish with 2 drops of the homemade fake blood.
Salted Martinez
Ingredients:
50ml Isle of Harris Gin
15ml Pedro Ximenez
5ml Salted caramel syrup
3 dashes toasted almond bitters
Cherry to garnish
Method:
Pour all the ingredients into a mixing glass. Add cubed ice, stir for 10/15 seconds. Strain the ingredients into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with a cherry.
Bloody Dutch Sour
Ingredients:
1 oz. Ketel One® Vodka
5 oz. Aperol
5 oz. Lillet Blanc
5 oz. Blood orange reduction simple syrup
0.75 oz. Fresh lemon juice
(optional) Egg white
Method:
Combine in a shaker, pour over ice.
Tia Sunset Delight
A cocktail to give any pumpkin-spiced recipes a run for their money, mixes both Tia Maria and Sailor Jerry spiced rum with a mixture of fruit juices to create a refreshing and smooth orange cocktail perfect for a Halloween themed night. Add some cranberries and an orange slice to garnish for extra flavour!
Ingredients:
25ml Tia Maria
25ml Sailor Jerry
10ml Monin peach syrup
50ml clementine or orange juice
Cranberry juice
To garnish: Handful of cranberries and an orange slice
Method:
Shake Tia Maria, Sailor Jerry, clementine or orange juice and syrup in a cocktail shaker. Once mixed, strain the liquid into a tall glass filled with ice. Top with cranberry or orange juice and garnish.
Grey Goose Lady in Black
Ingredients:
35ml Grey Goose Original
35ml Fresh pomegranate juice
10ml XO Cognac
10ml Crème de cassis
10ml clove-water (1 clove infused for 8 hours)
Method:
Pre-mix ingredients and serve chilled from a black bottle for extra effect! Garnish with a blackberry.
Disaronno Velvet White Espresso Martini
This cocktail is simply dessert in a glass – deliciously creamy and refreshing to satisfy any sweet tooth. For lovers of the original espresso martini, Velvet adds a touch of nuttiness to the bittersweet tipple featuring Tia Maria and Vodka. Rich, creamy and incredibly smooth, add some coffee beans on top for that traditional garnish.
Ingredients:
50ml Disaronno Velvet
25ml Tia Maria
25ml Vodka
Coffee beans to garnish
Method:
Shake and strain ingredients over ice.
Tia Trick’n’Treat
Typically used to create a Christmas snowball cocktail, Advocaat puts the treat in Tia Trick’n’Treat with its creamy, rich, pudding-like flavour. Topped off with fresh orange and lime juice, fizzy lemonade and Tia Maria to create a sweet cocktail to enjoy over the Halloween weekend. Add some festive fun with coconut flakes and Halloween decorations to garnish!
Ingredients:
25ml Tia Maria
25ml Advocaat
10ml orange juice
10ml lime juice
Lemonade
To garnish - coconut flakes
Method:
Shake Tia Maria, Advocaat and orange and lime juice together in a cocktail shaker. Once mixed, strain the liquid into a rocks glass filled with ice. Top with lemonade and garnish.
Violets Kill
Ingredients:
40ml Cut Spiced Rum (RRP £22, Master of Malt)
15ml Crème de Violette
25ml Lime Juice
10ml Sugar Syrup
Egg White
Method:
Dry shake and then shake again with ice. Double strain into a Coupe glass and garnish with two raspberries.
Grey Goose Beeting Heart
Ingredients:
40ml Grey Goose La Vanille
25ml Dark Cacao
15ml Beetroot juice
25ml Espresso
Method:
Shake and strain into glass and garnish with cacao dusting.
RED or DEAD
Ingredients:
25ml Cut Smoked Rum (RRP £22 Asda)
3 Lime Wedges
100ml Cranberry Juice
Dash of Soda Ice
Method:
Add the Cranberry juice to a glass with ice – layer the soda and then the Cut Smoked Rum, add the lime wedges and serve – stir before drinking.
Grey Goose La Poire Gingerbread Martini
Ingredients:
35ml Grey Goose La Poire
10ml Disaronno Original Liqueur
35ml Sparkling Apple Cide+
Pinch of Pumpkin Pie spice
Method:
Put all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously and strain into a martini cocktail glass
Bloody Margarita
Ingredients:
50ml Cazcabel Blanco (RRP £25.99, Marks & Spencer)
25ml Lime Juice
15ml Agave Syrup
50ml Red Wine Float
Method:
Shake the Cazcabel Reposado Tequila, lime and agave syrup. Strain into a Rocks glass with fresh ice. Spoon over the red wine to create a float and serve.
Bacardi Pumpkin Punch Kit
Bacardi Rum has partnered with Floom to launch a limited edition kit which includes one pumpkin ready to be gutted and transformed in to the perfect punch bowl for a spooky serve for you and three others.
The kit also includes all the ingredients to create a delicious pumpkin spiced rum punch - 1 Pumpkin, 70cl BACARDÍ Spiced, 1L Cloudy Apple Juice, Mixed Spice.
It also has other Bacardi-branded bits to get the party started, including light up cups, a wooden ladle for serving, transferable tattoos and Halloween lights.
Witch Doctor
Ingredients:
20ml Honey Cazcabel (£24.99, Amazon)
20ml Peated Whisky
20ml Pineapple Juice
25ml Lime Juice
15ml Orgeat Syrup
2 Dashes of Angostura Bitters
Method:
Shake all ingredients and strain into a chilled Nick and Nora glass. Garnish with a dried orange wheel and a sprig of fresh rosemary.
Halloween Rhubarb & Ginger Spritz
Ingredients:
50ml Whitley Neill Rhubarb & Ginger Gin
100ml Ginger Ale
100ml Prosecco
Fresh Mint
Method:
Pour the Whitley Neill Rhubarb & Ginger Gin over ice in a chilled tumbler glass. Add the ginger ale and prosecco and stir. Garnish with a fresh sprig of mint.
Crystal Head Onyx Vodka
Dan Aykroyd's love for all things weird and scary didn't just see him come up with Ghostbusters - he was inspired to create his own vodka brand based on the mystery of the crystal skulls.
While the intriguing ancient artefacts are said to give people in their presence psychic abilities, Crystal Skull vodka gives you a smooth spirit for cocktails or enjoying over ice - and a cool bottle to keep afterwards!
This is a special black bottle named after onyx, a crystal that is said to absorb negativity; the darker the stone, the more energy it holds.
Plus it doubles up as a very classy Halloween decoration.
Where to buy: The Bottle Club, £45 (on sale October 9)
