Halloween

These Halloween cocktail recipes are creepy cool.
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13 Creepy Cool Halloween Cocktails

Spooky sips for a scary good time.

by Ashley Jones

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Using seasonal ingredients and some easy-to-achieve special effects, these creepy cocktail recipes will make your Halloween hauntingly awesome.

No Halloween celebration is complete without a plethora of pumpkins, and pumpkin-themed drinks are no exception. This pumpkin cocktail from A Cookie Named Desire made with bourbon and pumpkin shrubs is like fall in a glass.A Cookie Named Desire
This Halloween cocktail recipe from Brown Sugar Mama is so easy to make, it’s scary. Simply scoop some orange sherbet into your glasses, top with champagne, and serve your guests a spooky good drink. Brown Sugar Mama

While your kids are busy bobbing for apples in the back yard, you can drink your fill of Deliciously Yum’s caramel apple cider recipe. This sweet treat is an autumnal delight and so perfectly fun for Halloween.

Deliciously Yum

This bubbling green sherbet punch recipe from My Forking Life will make a frightening addition to your Halloween party spread. Perfect for a crowd, you can make it boozy with vodka or leave the alcohol out for little ghouls and goblins.My Forking Life

Want a simple way to scare every trick-or-treater who knocks on your door? Make this ultra simple, vodka-based blood bag cocktail from Sugar and Soul and sip on one with a set of faux fangs.

There’s nothing like a tasty witches’ brew to get everyone in a spooky mood on Halloween. This pomegranate ginger punch recipe from My Baking Addiction shows you step by step how to achieve the smoky special effect on top.My Baking Addiction

Made with whipped cream vodka, grenadine syrup, and pineapple juice, candy corn martini from The Short Order cook is equal parts tricks and treats. The layered cocktail looks just like a candy corn turned upside down in a martini glass.

A fall spin on a margarita, this Halloween cocktail by Half Baked Harvest amplifies autumn flavors like cinnamon and rosemary, but still gives off extra creepy vibes. Plus, the drink’s name is inspired by the spooky movie Sleepy Hollow. Half Baked Harvest

If you’re looking for a dark and brooding cocktail to make on October 31, look no further than Well Plated’s Halloween sangria.

This poisoned apple cocktail from Cooking With Curls makes an entire pitcher of punch that is bright green in color and looks frighteningly festive in a glass beaker. When Dr. Frankenstein walks into a bar, this is what he orders.

Halloween is the best time to embrace all things Harry Potter themed and this Negroni is no exception. The Half-Baked Harvest recipe gets its color from a pinch of activated charcoal added to gin, Campari, vermouth, and pomegranate juice.Half-Baked Harvest

When you need a delicious Halloween cocktail, who you gonna call? DIY Candy. Because they have the recipe for a Ghostbusters Ectoplasm Cocktail that will impress even the movie’s biggest fans. Part vodka, part Jell-O, all fun.

Red like blood, mulled wine is exactly what you need to warm up on a cold Halloween night. Warming spices like cardamom, clove, and cinnamon combined with brandy, red wine, and cider create the base of this recipe from Well Plated.Well Plated