Halloween Cocktail Recipes 2019: 17 Quick Alcoholic Drinks With Vodka, Punch, More

Halloween is just a few days away, which means kids will be focused on a night of treats while adults plan for an evening with spooky spirits. You won’t want to leave these hauntingly delicious cocktails out of your boo-zy celebration this year.

Whether you’re in the mood to host guests for the ultimate Halloween party or you want to relax at home, there are plenty of vodka, tequila, and other concoctions you can whip up on the scariest night of the year.

Below are 17 delicious Halloween cocktail recipes that you should consider trying out for your creepy celebration.

Smoke, Mirrors and Colors

Ingredients:

• 1.5 oz. Crystal Head Aurora
• 1 oz. Dry Vermouth
• ½ oz. Mezcal

Combine all of the ingredients in a mixing glass and stir. Strain the contents of the beverage into a coupe glass. Use dry ice to obtain the smoke effect of this cocktail. Take caution when handling the cooling agent and do not ingest.

A Dark & Stormy Death

Ingredients:

• 2 oz. Dark Rum
• 5 oz. Bruce Cost Pomegranate with Hibiscus Ginger Ale
• Skull Ice cubes
• Brandied Cherry Juice Floater
• 3 Lychees
• 3 Blueberries

Place two skull ice cubes in a highball glass. Fill a cocktail shaker with rum and ½ oz brandied cherry juice. Shake to chill. Pour the contents over ice and top with Bruce Cost Pomegranate with Hibiscus Ginger Ale. Garnish the spooky beverage with lychee and blueberry “eyeballs.”

Bloody Carrie

Ingredients:

• 2 oz. Tomato Juice
• 1 oz. Red Bell Pepper Juice
• 2 Tbsp. Horseradish
• 2 Dashes Worcheshire
• Pinch of Sea Salt & White Pepper
• Pinch of Celery Salt
• 5 Dashes Tabasco
• Few sprigs of Cilantro
• Muddled Banana Peppers
• 2 oz. Svedka Citron
• ½ oz. Lemon Juice

Combine 6 ounces of the Bloody Mary mix, ½ ounces of lemon juice and 2 ounces of vodka into a cocktail shaker. Shake and strain into a Collins glass over fresh ice. Garnish the beverage with a celery stalk, banana peppers, cilantro sprig and olives stuffed with salami. Stuff lychees with blueberries to create eyeballs.

The Afterlife

Ingredients:

• 1½ Parts Avión Silver
• ½ Parts Lime Juice
• 3 Parts Ginger Beer Or Ginger Ale
• Optional: Splash of crème de cassis (¼ Part)

Rim highball glass with salt/colored sugar mix. Place the ingredients into a glass then add ice. Garnish the cocktail with a lime wedge or wheel.

Margarita Muerta

Ingredients:

• 1.5 oz. Camarena Silver
• ½ oz. Blood Orange Liqueur
• ½ oz. Fresh Lime Juice
• ½ oz. Agave Nectar
• 1 oz. Passion Fruit Nectar
• 2-3 Slices of Jalapeno

Place the ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Then shake the contents together to combine and chill. Strain into a festive Mexican skull mug (if desired) and fill it with crushed ice. Complete your beverage by garnishing it with a dehydrated lime, the interior contents of a passion fruit, and a burning cinnamon stick.

Hello Halloween Sparkler

Ingredients:

• 3 ounces Barefoot Bubbly Pink Moscato
• ¾ oz. Pomegranate Juice
• ¼ oz. Pineapple Juice
• ¼ oz.Black Cherry Soda
• 1 Orange Slice
• 2 Pineapple Slices

Place juices and soda in a wine glass over ice. Then add in the orange slice and pineapple slices. Top the cocktail with Barefoot Bubbly Pink Moscato. Stir and garnish with fruit.

Phantasm Punch

Ingredients:

• 1 Bottle of Stoli Ohranj
• 20 oz. Pomegranate Juice
• 4 oz. Fresh Lime Juice
• 3 oz. Elderflower Syrup
• 2 Tbsp. Of Activated Black Charcoal Powder
• 1 Bottle of Prosecco

Combine all of the contents in a punchbowl. Garnish by floating candy eyeballs, gummy worms and gummy spiders in the punch. Use dry ice to add a smoke effect to the beverage (Handle carefully with insulated gloves).

Panadero Margarita

Ingredients:

• 2 oz. Tanteo Chipotle Tequila
• 1 oz. Fresh Lemon juice
• ¾ oz. Light Agave Nectar
• 1 oz. Pumpkin Puree

Place the ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake well and strain into a hollowed mini-pumpkin. Garnish the drink with freshly ground nutmeg and cinnamon.

Violet Chachki

Ingredients:

• 1 oz. Crystal Head Vodka
• 1 oz. Dry Vermouth
• ½ oz. Lemon
• ½ oz. Simple Syrup

Infuse the first three ingredients with a bag of butterfly pea flower tea (turns the drink bright purple and adds tea flavor). Then use a cocktail shaker to shake the contents together and pour on the rocks. Garnish with rainbow candy.

Cavit’s Halloween Blood Punch

Ingredients:

• 1 Bottle of Cavit Pinot Noir
• 1 Cup pomegranate juice
• ⅓ Cup fresh lime juice
• 2 Cups Ginger Beer
• 2 Cups Ice Cube
• 1 Orange (thinly sliced)
• ½ Cup of Gummy Worms

In a punch bowl, combine and stir the Pinot Noir, pomegranate juice and lime juice. Top the beverage with ginger beer and ice. Garnish with orange slices and arrange the gummy worms alongside the punch bowl. Use cubes of dry ice to add a smoky effect to your spooky cocktail. Use gloves or tongs when handling dry ice, do not touch it with bare hands.

Orange Cinnamon Blossom

Ingredients:

• 1 Bottle of Santa Margherita Prosecco Superiore DOCG
• ½ Lemon
• ½ Orange
• 1 Tbsp. Tablespoon Honey
• ¼ Cup Sugar
• 3 Whole Cloves
• 3 Whole Allspice
• 2 Cinnamon Sticks

Rinse the lemon and orange and thinly slice them, discarding the seeds. Quarter the orange slices and place the fruit into a four-quart to five-quart pan. Add honey, sugar (use the smaller amount if you prefer drinks on the tart side, the larger if you want a sweeter flavor), cloves and allspice. With a knife, cut the cinnamon sticks lengthwise into thinner strips.

Then add the cinnamon and 2 cups water to the pan. Bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce heat and boil gently for 5 minutes. Pour Prosecco into hot citrus base and heat until steaming, about 8 minutes. Keep warm over low heat. Ladle into heatproof cups or wine glasses.

Orange You Afraid of the Dark

Ingredients:

• 2 oz. Svedka Clementine Vodka
• 2 oz. Black Tea
• 1 oz. Caramelized Pineapple-Vanilla Syrup
• 2 Dashes Angostura Bitters

Place all of the ingredients into a shaker with ice and shake well for 10 seconds. Strain the contents into a collins glass over fresh ice. Garnish with cinnamon foam.

Sugar Skull Punch

Ingredients:

• 1 Part Avión Silver
• 1 Part Whole Milk or Milk Substitute
• 1 Part Kahlua
• ¾ Part Agave
• Dash of Mole Bitters

Place the ingredients in a punch bowl, add ice and stir briefly to mix. Use a ladle to serve the cocktail and garnish with nutmeg.

Ghouls Night In

Ingredients:

• 2 ounces Barefoot Pinot Grigio
• ½ oz. Chocolate Vodka
• ¼ oz. Hazelnut Liqueur
• ¼ oz. Chocolate Syrup
• Caramel Sauce
• Chopped Peanuts

Rim a chilled cocktail glass with caramel syrup Dip caramel covered rim into chopped peanuts and set the glass aside. Then add Barefoot Pinot Grigio, vodka, liqueur and chocolate syrup into a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake until well chilled then strain the mixture into the prepared cocktail glass.

Type-O-Negative

Ingredients:

• 1.5 oz. Stoli Ohranj
• 1 oz. Blood Orange Juice
• ½ oz. Fresh Lemon Juice
• ½ oz. Simple Syrup (or Agave)

Shake ingredients and strain into blood bags (clear plastic beverage pouch), or into a spooky cocktail glass of your choice. Garnish the beverage by filling the bag with blood orange slices. For more a gruesome presentation, add gummy fingers and eyeballs.

Marigold Margarita

Ingredients:

• 1 ½ Parts Avión Silver
• ¾ Parts Lime Juice
• ½ Parts Orange Juice 1⁄2
• ½ Parts Agave Syrup

Rim a glass with sugar. Then place the ingredients into a cocktail shaker. Shake well and single strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice. Garnish with an orange wheel.

Bittersweet Endings

Ingredients:

• 2 oz. Crystal Head Vodka
• 1 oz. Benedictine

Mix all of the ingredients in a shaker with ice and stir gently. Strain the contents into a chilled coupe glass. Garnish with a lemon twist.