6 Hair-Raising Cocktails to Celebrate Halloween

Halloween is the holiday for candy and kids. But also for adults and magical potions that are out of the ordinary! It's the perfect occasion to indulge in mixology experiments to offer fabulous drinks to witch and vampire friends of all kinds!

To help you prepare your party this year, we offer you 6 fitting cocktails. You will have monstrous success with these bold colors, flavors, and textures! Happy Halloween!

1. Frankenstein Cocktail

A matcha cocktail is delicious, but it's also a fitting color!

Required ingredients:

1.5 g of matcha powder

36 ounces (about 1 liter) of cream soda

2 ounces (about 59 ml) of vodka

Dry ice

Preparation:

1. Whisk the cream soda and matcha.

2. Strain if necessary to remove any matcha lumps that didn't dissolve.

3. Add vodka and stir gently.

4. Pour into a pitcher and serve in a glass over a small piece of dry ice to achieve the smoke effect or add the cocktail mixture to a punch bowl set into a larger bowl below the first. Add the dry ice. Thus, the dry ice will never touch the drink.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Do not consume dry ice.

It is essential to wait about 5 to 10 minutes for the dry ice to dissolve depending on the size of the piece. Always use tongs to place dry ice in the glass. Do not touch it with your hands.

2. Bloody Cocktail

The combination of rum and passion fruit is magical! And for a horrifying touch, a hint of raspberry coulis! Just wow!

Required ingredients:

2 ounces (about 59 ml) of dark rum

4 ounces (about 118 ml) of passion fruit syrup

The juice of one lime

2 passion fruits

Raspberry coulis

Ice cubes

Preparation:

1. In a shaker, pour the rum, passion fruit syrup, and a few ice cubes and mix well.

2. Add a little raspberry coulis to the edges of the glass and fill it with ice cubes or crushed ice.

3. Squeeze the juice of half a lime per glass

4. Add the content of one passion fruit per glass

5. Pour the rum passion syrup mixture

6. Add a little water to taste.

7. Finish with a syringe of raspberry coulis

3. Harry Potter Cocktail

Here is the perfect drink for Harry Potter apprentices! A blood-red color and pomegranate flavor, it’s magical!

Required ingredients:

1/4 cup (65 ml) of pomegranate juice

1 1/2 ounce (about 44 ml) of bourbon

1/2 ounce (about 15 ml) of raspberry liqueur

The juice of 1/2 lemon

1 tablespoon (15 ml) of maple syrup

Preparation:

1. Mix all ingredients in a shaker.

2. Add ice cubes and shake to combine.

3. Strain into a coupe glass.

4. Add 1 ice cube and a handful of pomegranate arils.

4. Witch's Cocktail

A purple and shimmering drink is simply wonderful! The dry ice looks like sorcery come alive!

Required ingredients:

1 ounce (about 30 ml) of apple brandy or vodka

1 tablespoon (15 ml) of grenadine

2 ounces (about 60 ml) of blackberry liqueur

Mr. Cocktail's unicorn syrup (available here) or sparkling wine

Dry ice

Fruit skewers to taste

5. Poisoned Apple Cocktail

A perfect cocktail for Halloween! It's black and bubbly with a marvelous apple taste

Black salt or sugar

Required ingredients:

1/2 cup (125 ml) of apple cider

2 tablespoons (30 ml) of pomegranate juice

1 tablespoon (15 ml) of lemon juice

2 ounces (60 ml) of vodka or apple vodka

1/8 teaspoon of activated charcoal, for color

Dry ice

Preparation:

1. Rim a martini glass with black lava salt or coarse black sugar.

2. Fill a shaker with ice cubes.

3. Add apple cider, pomegranate juice, lemon, vodka, and activated charcoal. Shake to combine.

3. Strain into a prepared martini glass.

4. Add a very, very small quantity of dry ice, if desired.

NOTE: Wait for the dry ice to dissolve fully before drinking.

6. Champagne and Cotton Candy Cocktail

A candy-like taste for adults!

Required ingredients:

1 cup of cotton candy, color of your choice

Champagne or sparkling wine

Candy sticks

Preparation:

1. Place a bit of cotton candy into a glass

2. Pour champagne over the top

That's it!