When creating a holiday themed party, decorations will be required even for cocktails, and we will provide ideas for such decoration below.

Halloween Punch - Recipe

Punch is often called the Halloween potion. You can decorate and color it to your taste, but we decided to go with the most original option – a punch with a severed hand.

Ingredients:

• – 540 ml;
• – 1.4 l;
• limes – 3 pcs.

Preparation

Mix cranberry juice with lemonade and lime wedges. Leave the drink to cool until served.

Meanwhile, prepare the main decorative element. For the severed hand, fill a regular rubber glove with water. You can tint the water in the glove if desired, or put gummy worms or spiders in it. Filled gloves should be tied and left horizontally in the freezer until completely hardened.

Remove the seals from your frozen hands (you might even break off a couple of icy fingers) and put them in the drink.

The Halloween potion recipe will benefit from jelly vampire teeth and spiders, as well as streaks of blood flowing from the punch bowl.

Mocktails for Halloween

For the simplest Halloween mocktail, all you need is Sprite, some ice, grenadine syrup and a few syringes.

Grenadine in syringes imitates blood and will dissolve beautifully when combined with syrup. So that guests do not miss all this beauty, they will mix the ingredients themselves.

Fill small syringes with grenadine.

Pour the Sprite into glasses, put ice, and just before serving, put the Spitz in them.

To make Halloween-themed non-alcoholic cocktails even more festive, you can add ice cubes with plastic spiders frozen in them. Instruct your guests to drink this additive through a straw for safety reasons.

Decorating alcoholic cocktails for Halloween

Ingredients:

For the cocktail:

• vodka – 55 ml;
• cognac – 15 ml;
• blood orange juice – 60 ml.

For "blood":

• corn syrup;
• red gel food coloring.

Preparation

Prepare “blood” for decorating glasses. To do this, mix a couple drops of gel food coloring with corn syrup.

Dip glasses and glasses into the syrup, swirl and turn over, watching the fake blood run down the edges.

Mix the cocktail ingredients and pour them into decorated glasses. If desired, each glass can be supplemented with plastic vampire teeth.

When planning a Halloween party, cocktail recipes take a back seat to the decorations. It is still important to pay special attention to the decoration of the glasses, which will definitely delight all the guests!

The scariest holiday of the year is approaching (I’m not taking into account the classic Yuletide binge). On Halloween you want to throw a noisy party. But how can you become the most original housewife without extra costs?

Thematic decoration of the house according to all canons will cost a pretty penny. Therefore, we will make do with a minimum amount of terrible tinsel. Each invitee will make their own costumes and makeup. Here you clearly cannot influence the choice of images, otherwise you risk turning the general fun into a social event with a mandatory dress code. All that remains is to decorate the table in an original way.

On Halloween, rarely does anyone overeat on salads and squeeze in an extra portion of chicken and mashed potatoes. But the drinks are selling with a bang. Agree, any gatherings in an adult company are not complete without some intoxicating drinks.

Since we have to buy booze anyway, let's give the usual products a dark aura. Guests will remember your unique cocktails for a long time, if, of course, they know when to use them in moderation.

1. Eyeballs

Cooking method

Place the berry in the opening from the seed. Secure the structure with a toothpick. Throw into a glass and pour over the martini.

2. Mister Hyde's Elixir

Cooking method

Thread blackberries onto decorative skewers (you can use sprigs of lavender or any other flowers with a stiff stem). Put the decor aside for now.

Mix vodka with lemon juice. Using the tip of a knife, carefully pour in the ingredients in layers in the following order: cream liqueur, berry liqueur, syrup, vodka with juice. Carefully place the blackberry skewers into the liquid. Bring smoke from dry ice into the glass.

The preparation method for the lazy involves simply mixing the ingredients and adding dry ice directly into the glass before serving. Either way, this Halloween cocktail will unleash your guests' alternate personalities.

3. Bride of Frankenstein

Cooking method

Mix the ingredients in a blender until smooth. Pour into glasses, add ice. Place the candies on toothpicks. Insert into prepared cocktail.

4. The Master and Margarita

5. Heart of a Witch

6. Alice in Wonderland

8. Unicorn Blood

9. Hocus Pocus

10. Vampire's Kiss

Halloween cocktails are a must at a party. And the scarier they are, the better the event will be. Themed snacks, makeup and outfits will complement the home “sabbath”. The main thing is not to overdo it with the tasting, otherwise you won’t need makeup in the morning - the faces will look like those of the living dead.

Historical sketch

Halloween is All Saints' Day, transformed from a Celtic pagan holiday that divided the ancient calendar of Celtic believers into dark and light parts. During Samhain (as this day was called then), death overtook everyone who violated the taboo.

In a modern interpretation, on the night of October 31, dark forces plunge the earth into darkness - ghouls, ghouls, evil spirits and all their relatives begin to commit atrocities. Therefore, until the morning of November 1, they must be carefully scared away.

Christians do not particularly like or honor a foreign holiday, although many treat it with humor and, having chosen the surroundings, have fun from the heart.

Halloween symbols:

• pumpkin-lanterns - were made by the Celts to help souls find the road leading to another dimension;
• Jack's lantern - a hollow pumpkin with a carved face and a candle burning inside - the legacy of a drunkard blacksmith who deceived the Devil;
• Lembswool - a drink made from baked apples, doused with warmed apple cider, sweetened and seasoned with spices, meant that the entire harvest had been harvested.

Interesting! The holiday did not come to us from America; on the contrary, it came there with the first settlers from Europe.

Decorating drinks for Halloween

Bacchanalia alcoholic cocktails The main thing is to decorate and serve it correctly. They should surprise, shock and touch the heartstrings.

You can decorate the dishes in advance or buy disposable ones in suitable colors, create a web at the bar from white thin threads, and also prepare a kit for making scary things.

Attention! Don't forget about safety! Always serve your decorated strong drink with a thin drinking straw!

Now let's move on to practice.

Creating Creepy Eyes:

• Place peppercorns in the center of round marshmallows;
• peel the radish, dig a hole in the center suitable for inserting an olive; place the resulting “eyes” on a skewer and place on a glass;
• Dry the lychee fruit, fill it with strawberry or raspberry jam, and make the pupil out of blueberries or currants.

You can generally put anything into ice molds - gelatin worms, bugs, cockroaches, etc.

Drawings on the glass of glasses. We put the melted chocolate into a syringe and draw cobwebs or ghost faces on the glass of the inner walls of the glass.

Bloody stains:

• dip the edges of the glasses in Grenadine and turn them over, waiting for “bruises”;
• soak gelatin in red juice, heat until it dissolves, cool slightly (until viscosity appears), dip the edges of the glasses in the resulting “blood,” turn over so that the drops flow down the glass, cool the creation in the refrigerator.

Nasty-looking drinks are obtained when using jelly marmalade. These could be eyes, worms, jaws, fingers. At the same time, they can simply be dropped into the drink.

Olives, cherries, blueberries, citrus peels, etc. look great on a cocktail tube or skewer dipped into a glass.

Making a Severed Hand for Punch:

• pour water (or gelatin melted in red juice) into a medical glove, tie its base and freeze;
• before removing your hand from the latex, immerse the product in boiling water for 2-3 seconds;
• Place your hand in the center of the vase with punch, not forgetting to dip it into the drink before doing so (you can also cut off 1-2 fingers from your hand).

Additional visual effects:

• Brains at the bottom of the glass - achieved by introducing liqueur into any strong alcohol using a straw (it rolls up into balls);
• Witch's Potion - before pouring the drink into the glass, place a couple of pieces of dry ice at the bottom (the cocktail will begin to bubble and smoke - at this moment you can pour jelly cockroaches into it and stir theatrically).

Carefully! Dry ice should not be touched with your hands - this can lead to burns! But you shouldn’t be scared at all - it is non-toxic and completely harmless - you can drink the cocktail as soon as the ice has completely dissolved.

Little tricks:

• choose colored liqueurs for Halloween (green mint, chocolate, etc.), absinthe, and black vodka (poured instead of regular vodka);
• juices should also be bright - strawberry, carrot, cranberry, tomato, orange, pumpkin, raspberry, etc.

Now, armed with knowledge, you can create gothic mixes. And to make it easier for you to compose them, we have made for you a terribly fun selection of recipes for alcoholic and non-alcoholic cocktails in the spirit of Halloween.

Bloody Punch

• light rum (for example) - 1 l;
• cherry liqueur - 200 ml;
• sweet red wine - 350 ml;
• sugar (cherry) syrup – 200 ml;
• lemon juice – 200 ml;
• any berries - a handful;
• orange slices - from 2 fruits.

The components are mixed in a large vase or cauldron. You can put an ice hand and gelatins inside.

Jack-lantern

• cognac/brandy - 30 ml;
• liqueur or – 15 ml;
• fresh orange – 45 ml;
• ginger ale – 15 ml;
• a circle of orange according to the size of the glass;
• strip of lime peel.

Shake all the drinks in a shaker, pour into a glass, cover with an orange round, into which you insert a lime “tail” in advance.

Creepy screwdriver

• orange juice - 90 ml;
• black vodka (coffee liqueur) – 45 ml

Pour ice into a glass, pour fresh juice, pour a layer of vodka along the blade of a knife.

Black Martini

• liqueur Creme de Cassis (currant) - 20 ml;
• gin - 130 ml.

This duet is obtained by simply combining ingredients. It is decorated with black gummy worms or two olives threaded on a skewer.

Cocktail “Hypnosis”

• - 90 ml;
• Blue Curacao liqueur - 45 ml;
• fresh lemon – 8 ml.

The components are combined using a shaker. The decoration is an eye or “smoke” from dry ice.

Dracula's Kiss

• cherry tincture or vodka - 30 ml;
• pomegranate syrup -15 ml;
• Coca-Cola - 170 ml.

Pour ice into a narrow, tall glass, pour pomegranate syrup, tincture and cola.

Ghostbusters

• peach liqueur - 45 ml;
• liqueur - 45 ml;
• Baileys liqueur or - 3-5 drops.

Combine melon Midori with peach liqueur and pour into a martin. Drizzle cream liqueur on top.

Bloody brain

• strawberry vodka Xu-Xu ( strawberry liqueur) - 80 ml;
• Baileys liqueur – 40 ml;
• lemon/lime juice – 20 ml;
• grenadine – 1-2 dashes.

Mix Xu-Xu with fresh juice, strain into a large glass. Use a cocktail straw to suck in the Baileys and, holding it inside, place the straw at the bottom of the glass. Release your finger, allowing the liquor to flow out. Drizzle pomegranate syrup on top.

Bloody Mary for Halloween

• black vodka - 60 ml;
• tomato juice – 120 ml;
• Tabasco hot sauce – 1-2 drops.

Mix tomato juice with Tabasco and pour it into a glass with ice. Place vodka on top with a spoon. If you're a pro at layered cocktails, make several layers, alternating between vodka and juice.

This alcohol will not let you freeze if the October night turns out to be cold. It's perfect for both adults and children's zombie parties.

For 2 servings we take:

• in the alcoholic version - dark rum, in the non-alcoholic version - hot tea - 120 ml;
• apple juice - 200 ml;
• lemon juice - from 2 fruits;
• sugar – 2-4 tsp;
• for decoration - slices of apples, orange, 2 cinnamon sticks, 2 slices of fresh ginger.

• Heat all the ingredients except the decor until the sugar dissolves.
• Strain into two glasses, distributing approximately 150-160 ml of liquid into each.
• We also distribute the decor equally, immersing it in glasses with a drink.

Cocktail “Blood on the Snow”

This delicious drink does not contain alcohol. It's perfect if you're celebrating Halloween with your kids.

• milk - 150 ml;
• creamy ice cream - 100 gr.
• for ambience: whipped cream (can be from a can) and 1 tsp. syrup from any red berries, gelatin, grated chocolate, etc.

Creative stages:

• Whip the ice cream with milk and pour into a stemmed wine glass.
• Carefully place cream on top.
• Pour in the syrup. Do not stir!
• Decorate with jelly candies, chocolate chips, skewer with berries, etc.

Let's leave this day classic recipes alcoholic cocktails aside. Halloween is a reason to be unconventional, a reason to allow yourself something that in ordinary life remains in the category “oh, so many things you could do if you weren’t afraid!..”.

The main problem when preparing unusual, rare cocktails is the lack of available ingredients. Don’t get lost, feel free to replace them with those you have on hand. Yes, most likely the result will not be exactly the taste that is expected in the product. original recipe, however, who said that he is worse? Be bolder, and new life horizons will definitely open up for you!

So, the plan is simple and clear: friends, ghosts, pumpkins and scary drinks! We offer you a selection of the 10 best cocktails for Halloween - watch, get inspired and envy yourself, because it will be unrealistically cool!

1. Frankenpunch

If the theme of Frankenstein and stories about him resonates inside with something exciting and trembling, be sure to prepare this punch, it will be terribly tasty and aromatic! To be even more convincing, you can print out small portraits of the desired character and decorate cocktail straws with them, but even without this it’s already scary!

Ingredients:
2 liters of ginger ale;
400 ml tequila;
1.5 liters of pineapple juice;
600 g lime sorbet;
lime or lemon slices for serving.

Mix tequila, ale and pineapple juice in a convenient container (punch serving container). Pour into glasses, garnish with a scoop of ice cream and a slice of lime. Serve with ice.

Tip: it is better to prepare lime sorbet at home; it is not difficult: freshly squeezed juice should be mixed with a small amount powdered sugar and freeze in an ice cream maker.

2. Cocktail “Bloody Sangria”

Ingredients:
750 l dry red wine;
400 ml pomegranate juice;
50 ml orange liqueur;
400 ml mineral water.

Pour wine into the decanter, pomegranate juice and liqueur, mix well. Place in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours (preferably overnight). Before serving, remove from the refrigerator, add mineral water, stir and pour into prepared glasses.

The glasses must first be turned over in a saucer with water, and then placed in a container with sugar tinted with red food coloring.

Advice: don’t skimp on juice – in this case it gives a noticeable flavor note. If you can’t prepare fresh juice yourself, look for what you need in eastern markets.

3. Cocktail “Glass with ghosts”

To make the drink even more impressive, take care of the decor of a tall highball glass - use a permanent marker on the outside or melted dark chocolate on the inside to draw ghost eyes and a mouth on its walls. All you have to do is fill the glasses with a drink white, surprisingly similar to milk. However, do not be fooled by the innocent appearance cocktail - in fact, it is very, very serious. However, just like real ghosts!

Ingredients:
30 ml vodka;
30 ml liqueur with white chocolate;
30 ml white liqueur with cocoa flavor;
30 ml cream;
a little nut liqueur.

Fill highball glasses with ice. In a separate bowl, mix all the above ingredients, then pour into glasses.

Tip: take medium fat cream (15-20%) - it will provide the desired density of the drink, but will not make it heavier.

4. Pumpkin Pie Punch

Ingredients:
1 liter of cream soda;
350 ml vodka;
700 g pumpkin ice cream.

Mix cream soda and vodka and pour into glasses. We decorate each serving with a scoop of pumpkin ice cream - during the melting process, the two liquids will combine, “fighting”, resulting in the formation of a large, voluminous, sizzling foam.

Advice: when choosing pumpkin ice cream, give preference to one that contains a basic set of “autumn” spices - cinnamon, star anise, anise, cloves. The taste of the cocktail will be richer.

5. Cocktail “Risen from the Dead”

The drink is pure evil, but it's worth it! Halloween is also about the game of contrasts, about the struggle of opposites, about confrontation and victory. Overall, the cocktail is very themed and worth a try!

Ingredients:
90 ml vodka with lemon flavor;
60 ml of Saint-Germain liqueur;
a handful of ice;
10 ml strawberry syrup;
strawberries and mint leaves for serving.

Pour vodka and liqueur into a shaker, add ice, mix. Pour strawberry syrup into martini glasses, add a mixture of vodka and liqueur, and garnish with strawberries and a mint leaf.

Tip: ready-made store-bought strawberry syrup is an excellent substitute for homemade strawberry puree. Maybe not as bright, but definitely much more aromatic.

6. Cocktail “Witch’s Potion”

Ingredients:
60 ml Viniq Original shimmering liqueur (lilac);
60 ml prosecco;
dry ice

Pour the required amount of liqueur into a beautiful glass and add prosecco. Before serving, add dry ice.

Advice: finding dry ice on the market is not an easy task, however, a basic Google search gives more than one answer to the question asked.

7. Cocktail “Zombie”

One of the most popular cocktails at Halloween parties, it's sure to make you feel a little like the walking dead. Two servings - and you're definitely a zombie!
By the way, it is noteworthy that this is one of the few recipes for alcoholic cocktails that have their own confirmed history of origin. In 1934, the drink was invented by the owner of a very popular establishment in California, Don Beach. The cocktail quickly became mega-popular - so much so that it regularly appeared in many Westerns of the time. Over the years, the fame, of course, has faded somewhat, but Americans’ love for the drink probably remains the same.

Ingredients:
45 ml light rum;
45 m dark rum;
30 ml apricot liqueur;
40 ml orange juice;
20 ml pineapple juice;
15 ml cherry liqueur;
250 g crushed ice;
a slice of orange or a piece of pineapple and a cocktail cherry to serve.

Place all ingredients, except orange (pineapple) and cherry, in a shaker, vigorously shake several times, pour into glasses, garnish with a cocktail cherry and a citrus wedge (pineapple slice).

Tip: not every guest can distinguish the subtleties of flavor shades of different types of rum. Most likely, few people can do it at all. In general, if you have difficulty purchasing different varieties of this drink, feel free to limit yourself to one.

8. Almost Dead Cocktail

If you are looking for a recipe for a truly creepy cocktail, consider yourself to have already found it: it looks scary, tastes deadly, and the consequences are irreversible. A couple of glasses – and that’s it, you’re practically dead!

Ingredients:
40 ml tequila;
10 ml of freshly squeezed beet juice;
15 liters of freshly squeezed orange juice;
15 ml freshly squeezed lemon juice;
15 ml agave syrup.

Place all ingredients, except beet juice, in a shaker, add ice, shake well, pour into highball glasses. Slowly and carefully pour the beetroot juice - spreading over the ice, it will create... leave a “bloody trail”.

Tip: beet juice looks very naturalistic, however, if for some reason you don’t want to use it, you can replace the beets with cherries.

9. Cocktail “Black Margarita”

A scary black drink is just what you need to scare everyone around you and yourself on this terribly fun day!

Ingredients:
80 ml tequila;
40 ml orange juice;
150 ml sparkling mineral water;
juice of 3 limes;
agave syrup to taste;
gel food colors red, blue and green.

Pour orange juice and freshly squeezed lime juice into a shaker, add a few drops of food coloring and agave syrup to taste. Shake well. Pour into glasses with ice, filling 2/3 full, and top up with mineral water.

Tip: To achieve the perfect black for you, you need to find the right balance of food coloring. Don’t rush to pour in a lot at once - it’s better to add a little at a time, adjusting the result drop by drop.

10. Cocktail “Undertaker”

Ingredients:
60 ml vanilla vodka;
20 ml coffee liqueur;
20 ml chocolate liqueur;
20 ml chilled espresso.

Fill a shaker with ice, add vodka and liqueurs, shake well. Pour into a glass (preferably a martini glass) and add ice-cold espresso.

Advice: do not under any circumstances replace natural espresso with instant coffee any fortress. The taste is radically different.

10 Ideas for Decorating a Cocktail for Halloween

1. The rim on the glass is made of sugar tinted in Halloween colors (black, red, orange) – just what you need to immediately add the necessary holiday accents.

2. Black permanent marker is a great tool for creating the necessary decor. With its help, you can draw simple contour drawings on cocktail glasses - ghosts, pumpkins, a witch's broom, a spider or a cobweb. However, you can do not the simplest ones and not only contour ones - if you wish.

3. Print out a couple dozen small drawings of Halloween-related items - a jack-o'-lantern, a bat, a black cat, a skeleton. Cut along the outline and glue to the cocktail tubes - you have an excellent decor for a glass with a festive cocktail.

4. Olive spiders are a very atmospheric decoration for Halloween cocktails. It's easy to do and looks impressive. However, any spiders (and huge plastic naturalistic monsters that can be bought in any store like “Everything for five kopecks”) are quite decorative. Very decorative too!

5. Cherry syrup and similar things are convenient “paint” for depicting bloody streaks on a glass. Extremely naturalistic!

6. If you have time and the mood to play, you can make eyes that will lie in a glass of cocktail and scare people with your nasty look. The easiest way, of course, is to buy ready-made ones (jelly candies or plastic decorations), but you can also make them yourself. Small round radishes are the base. Peel them, leaving a little red skin as bloody veins. Cut a hole inside where you need to insert a stuffed green olive - this is the pupil.

7. And by the way, in shopping centers Pay attention to the places where they sell these multi-colored “rubber” candies - among the jelly abundance you can find an excellent Halloween still life: brains, worms, skulls of all kinds, snakes and spiders.

8. A syringe with “blood” (from cherry or beet juice) inserted into a glass along with a cocktail straw is a cool decoration for the drink. Horrible, disgusting and naturalistic!

9. Play around with the glassware you plan to serve Halloween cocktails in. Medical test tubes and chemical flasks, for example, are wonderful choices designed to bring terror to those who want to treat themselves to a celebratory drink on this day.

10. If you are making one large batch of punch in a special large bowl, garnish it with a couple of ice hands. To do this, pour colored water (food coloring, bright juices, lemonades) into a washed medical glove and send it to freezer. Removing the rubber casing after freezing will give you a great scary hand!

In general... You know best recipe cocktails for Halloween? Mix what you like and want, what you have at home and what your inner instinct dictates, be sure to add a little personal charm and a couple of horror stories, do not forget to season with fear and horror, add a pinch of the blood-curdling “oooo!” and at the tip of the knife - ominous silence. All!
Well, the main thing is to have fun and in the spirit of Halloween! Happy holiday, cute ghosts and cool guests!

Celebrated on the last day of October, Halloween is a fun carnival designed to imitate the visit of our world by the spirits of the dead and various other evil spirits. Since the times of the ancient Celts who lived in the British Isles, this holiday, marking the end of the agricultural year, was accompanied by the drinking of specially prepared ritual drinks.

Today's Halloween lovers, often forgetting traditional Celtic recipes, are inventing more and more new drinks that allow them to relax at a friendly party and at the same time correspond to the spirit of this unusual holiday.

Thus, when preparing for Halloween, it is important to know not only what people drank on this day hundreds and even thousands of years ago, but also how to create something new.

The essence of the holiday and its traditions

Once upon a time, the celebration of Halloween, among other things, was associated with the end of the apple harvest. It is therefore not surprising that the only traditional Halloween drink we know of, lambswool, is made with baked apples and apple cider. Whole or crushed baked apples, placed in a punch bowl, are poured with heated cider (in the non-alcoholic version - ginger ale), flavored with sugar and various spices, and in this form are served at the festive table.

Since with light hand Americans have become an invariable attribute and symbol of Halloween, the pumpkin from which terrifying Jack-O-Lanterns are everywhere carved, then pumpkin juice (for children) and “Pumpkin Martini” (for adults) were among the popular drinks for this holiday.

By the way, before Halloween traditions, together with Scottish and Irish settlers, migrated overseas, turnips were the traditional material for making frightening-looking lanterns designed to ward off evil spirits and show the souls of the dead the way to purgatory. According to the Irish legend, it was from her that the cunning and drunkard blacksmith Jack, who managed to deceive the master of the underworld himself, carved a lamp in which he hid a particle of hellish flame, in the vain hope of using its light to find the path leading from hell to heaven.

But let's return to drinks made from pumpkin, which once and for all replaced the less spectacular and more expensive turnip. Tasty and healthy pumpkin juice can be served either pure or mixed with carrot or apple juice. As for the Halloween Martini, the drink is made with pumpkin liqueur, butter liqueur, and vanilla vodka, although some drinkers substitute spiced rum for the vodka and raw pumpkin puree for the pumpkin liqueur.

Considering the eerie and mystical surroundings of Halloween, alcoholic and soft drinks should generate cheerful fear. This result can be easily achieved by using various kinds of visual effects: giving drinks an ominous color, equipping them with various gothic decorations, or creating other impressive visual images.

Thus, during Halloween celebrations, blood-red mixes and cocktails are especially popular. To do this, you should stock up on the appropriate ingredients. The first place among them is occupied by red juices: cranberry, raspberry, strawberry, tomato, etc. They are perfect for creating both “adult” and “children’s” drinks. It all depends on the presence or absence of alcohol in them. Also, in order to achieve a “bloody” effect, you can use rich varieties of red wine or liqueurs of the appropriate shade.

In addition, it is worth using drinks of other colors that help create a slightly frightening or simply mysterious atmosphere. First of all, we are talking about a special English black vodka. The unusual color of the drink is achieved by adding betel acacia extract, which grows in India and Burma. Incorporating this dark, greenish-bluish infernal drink into layered cocktails is sure to impress your guests. And the use of this vodka when preparing “ Bloody Mary" or "Screwdrivers" will have an equally stunning effect.

Other drinks that are dark brown and black in color also contribute to the Halloween color scheme: a number of brandies, whiskeys, rums, balms and liqueurs. Particularly worth mentioning is absinthe, which not only has an ominous reputation on its own, but also takes on a mysterious, hazy greenish hue when mixed with water.

Speaking about serving drinks, first of all it’s worth focusing on the various jelly dirty tricks produced specially on the eve of the holiday. Jelly spiders, worms, slugs, cockroaches will look funny on the edges of glasses with drinks or even in the cocktails themselves. In this case, jelly eyes strung on cocktail skewers or placed on the bottom of a glass will be especially effective.

Some folk craftsmen go even further and create a terrifying jelly frozen hand on their own. The boiled mixture of gelatin and some sweet or sour-sweet juice (or juices) is poured into a thoroughly washed glove, turned inside out, which is tied and placed in the freezer. Next, the holiday accessory is removed from the freezer immediately before use and, after cutting off the glove, it is dipped into a bowl of punch. Moreover, this is done in such a way that the fingers and part of the hand are above the level of the drink.

Plus, your Halloween drink glasses can be outfitted with impressive blood stains. To do this, their edges need to be dipped into the jelly mass of red juice, which is beginning to harden, and then pulled out, quickly turned over and placed in the refrigerator, where they will wait for the party to start.

Also, particularly risky hosts of Halloween feasts throw plastic skeletons, bones and skulls into glasses of opaque drinks. In this case, the “surprise” should not be too small so that it is accidentally swallowed.

With a little imagination with the laws of physics, you can use other fun visual effects. For example, using a cocktail straw, inject into a container with strong, transparent alcoholic drink a little Baileys or other cream liqueur; As a result, the liqueur curled into balls will resemble brains preserved in alcohol. Or, before pouring vodka or gin into a glass or shot, add a few drops of grenadine syrup to the bottom, thereby giving the drink unambiguous vampire associations.

Witch's Potion

To do this, it is advisable to first thoroughly smoke the outside of a spacious vessel intended for mixing a cocktail for the whole company, giving it the appearance of a canonical witch’s cauldron, and then before pouring it into it necessary ingredients(pineapple or citrus juices, rum, vodka, or both), you should put several pieces of dry ice on the bottom.

As a result, the broth you serve will bubble like a real sinister witchcraft brew. To make things even worse, you can theatrically stir the potion with a stick from a fake broom or throw a handful of jelly evil spirits into it. The main thing is to never touch dry ice, otherwise you risk getting not a fake burn, but a real burn.

Halloween is a great opportunity to show your imagination and ingenuity. Don't be afraid to experiment with unexpected ingredients. And finally, don’t forget to come up with some appropriate, chill-inducing names for your infernal creations.