Best Halloween Cocktail Recipes

Pomegranate-Rum Punch (AKA The Blood of My Enemies)

• 4 hibiscus tea bags
• 1 small pomegranate juice
• 1 small cinnamon stick, smashed
• 1 cup spiced rum
• 1/2 cup blood orange juice, plus slices for serving
• 1 bottle Prosecco, chilled
• Pomegranate seeds, for serving

Steep tea bags and cinnamon stick in one cup of boiling water for 5 minutes. Strain and cool to room temperature. 

Place tea, pomegranate juice, rum, and orange juice in a pitcher. Slowly stir in prosecco. Serve over ice with orange slices and pomegranate seeds.

Vampire’s Kiss 

• 1 1/2 ounces vodka
• 1 ounce Chambord
• 1/2 ounce unsweetened cranberry juice
• 1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice
• 1/2 ounce grenadine
• Granulated sugar and additional grenadine, for sugar rim

Sprinkle the sugar in one plate and the grenadine in another. Coat the rim of your glass in grenadine, then dip it into the sugar to coat the rim.  Place vodka, Chambord, unsweetened cranberry juice, lemon juice, and grenadine in a cocktail shaker. Add 2 handfuls of ice cubes and shake until cold. Strain the drink into the prepared glass.

Mr. Hyde’s Potion 

• 8 ounces vodka
• 1 ounce blackberry liqueur
• 4 ounces parfait amour liqueur
• 2 ounces tarragon simple syrup
• 1 ounce fresh lemon juice
• 1 ounce lavender syrup
• 4 lavender sprigs
• 8 blackberries

For the tarragon simple syrup, place 1 cup sugar and 1 cup water in a small saucepan and heat until it just starts to boil. Add sprigs of fresh tarragon and simmer for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove tarragon and allow syrup to cool. 

Place spirits, syrups and lemon juice in a cocktail shaker filled with ice and shake until very cold (about 20 seconds). Pour into a cocktail glass.

Skewer 2 blackberries on each lavender sprig and place over the rim for decoration.