Candy Corn Martini and Other Halloween Cocktails

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

• 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     

• 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