Amazing Halloween Cocktails

One of my favorite annual holidays is definitely Halloween.  Whether it's putting up amazing decorations or coming up with unique Halloween-themed food and having friends and family over to see creative costumes, it's always fun.  But of course no Halloween Party is complete without truly creative Halloween-themed libations!  This year I got my inspiration from my favorite television shows and a few of the classic Halloween horror movies...Enjoy!

Halloween Cocktails

Freddy-tini

Exorcist-tini

Zombie-tini

Blood-splatter-tini

Freddy-tini - Inspired by the sweater from Nightmare on Elm Street movie franchise, this is sure to be a hit for all those Freddy Kruger's out on the 31st!

Ingredients:

chocolate icing

tape

2 parts Crown Royal

2 parts apple liqueur

2 parts cranberry juice

ice

Rim Garnish (optional)

red & chocolate cupcake sprinkles

agave nectar

1. Take tape and put two strips around the inside of the martini glass, one at the very top by the rim and one in between the first tape ring and the bottom (essentially making two stripes)
2. Using a knife, spread a layer of chocolate icing all around the inside of the martini glass.  The layer should be thin, but cover the glass completely.
3. Using either your fingers or tweezers, carefully peel up and remove the tape (this should result in chocolate stripes of icing on the inside of your glass.
4. Rim the martini glass with the agave nectar.  
5. Pour the chocolate and red cupcake sprinkles onto a flat plate (make sure they are mixed together) and roll the rim of your martini glass around in the sprinkles where the agave is.
6. In a martini shaker mix the remaining ingredients, and pour in glass...Pleasant Dreams!

Exorcist-tini - of course my homage to this classic horror flick has to be inspired by the pea soup projectile scene.  Rim garnishes are always listed as optional in my libation recipes, but I have to say the veggie rim on this cocktail makes the drink what it is.  And although this looks really gross (it's supposed to after all) it's actually quite delicious, and a most interesting way to eat your veggies!

Ingredients:

2 parts preferred vodka

1/2 part Midori liqueur

1 part irish creme

a few drops of green and yellow food coloring

ice

Rim garnish:

green icing

1-2 tbsp. frozen mixed veggies (carrots, peas, corn, lima beans, etc.)

1. Spread a thin line of green icing around the rim of the martini glass.
2. Lay out the frozen veggies on a flat plate and roll the rim of the martini glass, where the green icing is, in the veggies so that they adhere to the rim.
3. Mix vodka, midori, irish creme and ice in a martini shaker. 
4. Check coloring and add green and/ or yellow food coloring as needed until you get a dull green (like split-pea soup) color.
5. Pour into prepared martini glass and have fun grossing everyone out! 

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Blood Splatter-tini - Inspired by the infamous Dexter Morgan, these are sure to be a hit, even if you didn't like the way the series ended.  For this martini I simply use the same concoction as for a White Nile with of course some blood splatter.

Ingredients:

1 part triple sec

1 part creme de cacao liqueur

1 part amarula creme liqueur

ice

red icing in a tube

red sprinkles

1. Drip the red icing starting at the rim of the martini glass and let it drip down in a few different spots around the glass.
2. Mix triple sec, creme de cacao, amarula creme and ice in a martini shaker and shake vigorously.
3. Pour mixture into prepared martini glass.
4. Add a few more icing drippings as desired and draw out across the glass to make some strings float. 
5. Add red sprinkles for additional spots and splatters and remember...Blood Never Lies!

Please drink responsibly...!