by Martha Rhodes

Created on: October 15, 2008

A simple way to serve great Halloween cocktails is to reinvent cocktails that are ordered every day. Choose cocktails that have dark colors or unusual colors that people are just not used to eating or drinking. Remember, while the taste of the cocktail is important, the garnish is just as important. Hot apple cider tastes great but it looks like muddy water which makes it a great choice for a Halloween beverage. Imagination is the key when it comes to a great Halloween drink and garnish. Below are some recipes for cocktails, punches and non-alcoholic beverages for Halloween, along with some suggestions for Halloween garnishes.

Cocktail recipes for Halloween:

Smashing Pumpkin

This is great served in one of those mini-pumpkins that has been scooped out or with cinnamon sugar on the rim of the glass. You could also serve it with whipped cream on the top and sprinkle it lightly with some powdered cinnamon.

1/3 oz. of Kahlua
1/3 oz. of Bailey's Irish Cream
1/3 oz. Cinnamon Schnapps

Mix in a shaker with ice and strain into a serving glass.

Graveyard

This drink has always been made with red Tabasco sauce, but that was before Tabasco made a green sauce, give it a try too! Garnish with a skeleton straw and a spiraled lime zest or to make it particularly evil, garnish with a slice of jalapeno pepper.

1 oz. Tabasco sauce
1 oz of Tequila
Lemon-lime soda

Fill a serving glass with ice and add the Tabasco and tequila. Fill the rest of the glass with lemon lime soda and stir.

Brain Hemorrhage

This drink needs no garnish; it is a little creepy all on its own. If you don't drink it in one shot, they say it has the texture of snot. Of course, one can only guess how that is known, but it really does look like a little brain floating in the shot glass.

Peach Schnapps
Bailey's Irish Cream
Grenadine
Eyedropper

Fill a shot glass 2/3 full with peach schnapps, then slowly off the back of a spoon, pour about a teaspoon of Baileys (Brain). Drip 1-2 drops of grenadine on top (Hemorrhage). Yum Yum. Drink up!

Crime and Punishment

You know what they say: "if you can do the time, don't do the crime." Whatever the crime, the punishment for this drink sneaks up on you.

1 part Scotch
1 part Apple Brandy
2 parts Gin

Shake with ice and strain into glass.

A Blood Transfuser

The grape juice keeps the bourbon plasma blue.

1 part grape juice
1 part bourbon

Stir with ice and strain.

Blood and Sand

It has been reported that this cocktail got it's name from the 1922 movie Blood and Sand starring Rudolf Valentino as a bullfighter. The

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