The 5 Best Halloween Cocktails
Pumpkin can not be called the usual component of the cocktail, but not for Halloween! You made a Jack-o'-lantern and don’t know how to use the remaining pieces? Try to make a themed cocktail, you will surely like it. At the same time, surprise your friends and your soul mate with an unusual treat.
Freaky Pumpkin
The name speaks for itself, and the ingredients for this cocktail can be found in every kitchen.
Ingredients (per 1 serving):
- Vodka - 2 tsp.
- Pumpkin juice - 1 ½ oz.
- Vermouth Bianco - 1 ½ oz.
- Mint - 1-2 leaves
- Ground pepper - on the tip of a teaspoon
- Ice cubes
Cooking:
Mint into gruel.
Pour pumpkin juice, vermouth, vodka into a blender, and add peppermint and pepper. Beat a little.
Put an ice cube in a cocktail glass and fill it with the mixture obtained from the blender.
Polished Princess
If a bachelorette party is expected on Halloween, then this cocktail just has to be at your party!
Ingredients (per 1 serving):
- Vanilla Vodka - 1 ½ oz
- Fresh lemon juice - ½ oz
- Sugar Syrup - ¾ oz
- Cranberry Berries - 5 for cocktail preparation, 3 for decoration
- Egg white - from 1 egg
- Pumpkin spice - a pinch
Cooking:
In a shaker, mix and beat cranberries, pumpkin spices, lemon juice and simple syrup.
Pour in vanilla vodka, shake well again.
Add ice and egg white to the shaker and shake gently again.
Strain the resulting cocktail into a glass, garnish with cranberries.
Pumpkin Old Fashioned Cocktail
Does your boyfriend dress like an English dandy and read out old American literature? Prepare him a couple of servings of this cocktail for greater involvement in the atmosphere.
Ingredients (per 1 serving):
- Whiskey (bourbon) - 1 ½ oz
- Orange liquor (orancello) - ½ oz
- Pumpkin puree - 2 tbsp.
- Simple syrup - 1 oz
- Bitter (any) - 5 drops
- Orange peel or rosemary branch for decoration
Cooking:
Combine bourbon, orancello or other citrus liquor, pumpkin puree, simple syrup and bitter in an ice shaker.
Shake well.
Strain in highball with large pieces of ice.
Garnish with a zest of orange or a sprig of rosemary.
Pumpkin Scotch
Minimum ingredients - maximum fun!
Ingredients (per company):
- Sugar Pumpkin - 1 pc.
- Scotch - 1 ½ pint
- Salt - a pinch
Cooking:
Preheat the oven
Peel and chop sugar pumpkin into small pieces.
Lay the pieces of pumpkin on a baking sheet, lightly salt. Hold in the oven for half an hour.
Put the cooled pumpkin in a container with a lid, pour whiskey. Let it brew for a couple of days.
Pumpkin Mojito
This drink is a classic of the genre! Both friends and casual acquaintances will appreciate.
Ingredients (per 1 serving):
- Fresh mint
- Sugar - 1 tbsp
- Rum - 1 ½ oz
- Pumpkin puree - 1 tbsp
- Half lime
- Cream Soda - 2 oz
- Ice - 1 glasses
Cooking:
Pumpkin puree needs to be prepared in advance. To do this, cut the pumpkin in half, remove the seeds and pulp from it, and bake in the oven. You can also peel the pumpkin, cut it into cubes and cook in a small amount of water, and then crush it until mashed.
Squeeze juice from lime immediately before mixing the cocktail.
Mix fresh mint with sugar, but try not to tear mint.
Put all the ingredients except cream soda in a shaker with ice, shake vigorously several times, pour into a glass with ice, top up with cream soda, garnish with a mint leaf and a straw, and serve.
As decorations, you can take skewers, plant an olive and squeeze one pea of black pepper into it, so you get a bunch of eyes with pupils! Serve a cocktail for a big company in a huge beautiful pumpkin, believe me, it will make a splash on others!
Well, the cocktails are ready and waiting in the wings, now let's talk about the most important rule of any party, about the alcohol measure! You needs to know “in face”, I mean it, you must know your measure in milliliters!
Note for free peoples: the amount of drink at a party is inversely proportional to a successful acquaintance with the continuation. Well, if you could not resist our delicious cocktails and did not use your chance to get acquainted in Halloween, welcome to Promenad!