7 Ghoulish Cocktail Recipes For Your Halloween Scarefest

What’s a Halloween party without creepy cocktails? Why bore your guests with the same old tried and true plain old punch. Take up your Halloween soiree a notch with these hauntingly delicious drinks that are sure to get your costumed guests in a party mood.

The Creepy Crawler

2 ounces of SKYY Infusions Blood Orange

1 teaspoon of passion fruit syrup

.5 ounces of orange juice

.5 ounces of Pineapple juice

Shake all ingredients, pour in a lowball glass fill with ice. Top with a hibiscus flower and a tea spoon of hibiscus flower syrup.

Midori’s Spider Kiss

1 oz Midori Melon Liqueur

1 oz SKYY Vodka

Juice from 1/2 a Lemon

Chocolate syrup

Grenadine

Chocolate dipped orange slice for garnish

Directions

Use the chocolate syrup to draw a chocolate web into the inside of a martini glass. Place The glass in the freezer and chill. Next, pour the Midori, Vodka and lemon juice into a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake and strain into the chilled glass. For a blood effect, drizzle grenadine down the sides of the glass. As a finishing touch add a chocolate dipped orange slice.

The Itsy Bitsy

Created by Travis London

1 oz. X-Rated Fusion Liqueur

.5 oz. SKYY Vodka

1.5 oz. Black Raspberry Liqueur

3 blackberries

Muddle 2-3 blackberries in shaker. Place remaining ingredients in a cocktail shaker filled with ice and shake vigorously. Strain into a chilled martini glass rimmed with black rimming sugar. Garnish with cocktail pick with blackberries.

Daiquiri Noir

Created by Scott Fitzgerald of Mulberry Project, NYC

2 oz. Brugal Extra Dry Rum

.5 oz. Ramazzotti Amaro

.75 oz. Lime Juice

.75 oz. Simple Syrup

6 Chunks Muddled Pineapple

Dash Angostura Bitters

Muddle pineapple & bitters in a cocktail shaker. Add Brugal, lime juice & simple syrup and shake hard with ice. Fine strain, pour Ramazzotti Amaro into the drink as a float. Garnish with a mint leaf.

If you’re looking for drink that’s even darker, try concocting a cocktail with Brugal 1888 – a rum first aged in American Oak barrels, followed by a second aging in Sherry Oak casks to give it more of a rich, whisky-like profile:

Spice Cask

Created by Scott Fitzgerald, Mulberry & Vinatta Projects

2 oz. Brugal 1888

.75 oz. Ramazotti Amaro

.25 oz. Cinnamon Syrup

2 dash Orange Bitters

1 dash Angostura Bitters

Stir all ingredients in an iced cocktail tin. Fine strain over a large piece of ice and garnish with a large orange peel and a maraschino cherry.

Witches Brew

Recipes and photos courtesy of Normad and Eleven Mad. Pak.

1 oz. Yamazaki 12 Japanese Single Malt Whisky

1/2 oz. Yuzu juice