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Candy Corn Martini and Other Halloween Cocktails

Throwing a spook-tacular Halloween party or attending any frightful festivities with family and friends this All Hallows Eve? For a true Halloween scare, try these Halloween cocktails.

By Laura Dudnick/Patch

Looking for inspiration for that perfectly spooky cocktail or spine-chillingly tasty beverage to serve your goblins, ghosts, witches this Halloween?

Try these tasty Halloween-inspired cocktails.

Halloween Cocktails 2013

Candy Corn Martini                                                                    

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

Black Cloud Martini

  • 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

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  • 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                                                            

  • 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     

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  • 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

Bloody Mary                                                                                      

  • Zing Zang Bloody Mary Mix
  • 2 ounces of Belvedere Bloody Mary Vodka
  • Celery stalks, for garnish
  • Scallions, dark-green parts only, for garnish

Pina Ghoulada                                                                                

For the "blood":

  • Stirrings Grenadine Syrup

For the drink:     

  • 20 ounces Langers Pineapple Juice
  • 15 ounces of Coco Real Cream of Coconut
  • 1/2 cup heavy cream
  • 1 cup orange juice
  • 10 ounces Kraken Black Spiced Rum

Dark and Stormy Death Punch    

  • One 20-ounce can lychees in heavy syrup
  • 1/4 cup thinly sliced peeled fresh ginger
  • 16 brandied cherries
  • 1/4 cup superfine sugar
  • 1/2 cup fresh lime juice
  • 12 ounces Mount Gay Rum Eclipse
  • Three 12-ounce bottles Bundaburg Ginger Beer
  • Ice cubes


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