By Seren Charrington Hollins
I love Halloween and apart from carving pumpkins and baking spooky treats. I love to decorate my home with Halloween decorations and mix up a frightful cocktail or two. These cocktail recipes are delicious at any time of the year, but when sipping these it’s impossible not to embrace the inner witch or wizard.
The Witching Hour Cocktail
This cocktail may be best enjoyed at the witching hour, but be warned one sip and you’ll be bewitched.
Ingredients
- 1 jigger calvados
- 1 tsp grenadine
- 2 jiggers blackberry vodka
- Martini glass to serve
- Eyeball gobstopper – optional
Equipment
Cocktail shaker
Ice
strainer
Jigger or measuring jug
- Place the calvados, blackberry vodka and ice into a cocktail shaker. Shake rigorously
- Strain the drink into a martini glass.
- Pour 1 tsp of grenadine syrup, about an inch from the surface of the drink – the grenadine should sink to the bottom, creating a “bleeding” effect.
- If you frost the rim of your martini glass before pouring in your drink it is most effective.
A Little Note on Measurements and Equipment
Just in case you are wondering, a jigger is a bar measuring tool, and a shot glass typically refers to small glassware for serving alcohol. The standard shot and jigger volume is one and a half ounces. You can always measure your ingredients using a kitchen measuring jug, but investing in a jigger will make your preparation easier and make you feel like a cocktail pro.
Black Magic Cocktail
This is a super simple cocktail recipe that is always popular with guests as it creates a fabulously deep black drink
- 2 jiggers Black Vodka
- 20 ml Freshly Squeezed Lime
- 20 ml sugar Syrup
- Ice
Equipment
Cocktail Shaker
Strainer
Jigger or Measuring Jug
Instructions
Into a cocktail shaker add in your sugar syrup, lime juice, and black vodka. Fill with ice. Give it a hard shake for 30 seconds. Pour cocktail through strainer into your glass and serve.
Happy Halloween and a spooky chin chin!
