Your trick-or-treating days may be over but you’re never too old for Halloween! Plan an adults-only costume party and celebrate this spellbinding holiday in style.
In addition to some scary-good décor and frightful finger foods, you’ll also want a drink menu that is both creepy and classy. Stock your bar cabinets and achieve bewitching balance with these cocktail concoctions.
Are you read to host a Halloween party that is sure to be spooktacular? Keep scrolling for a few of our favorite Halloween drink recipes and all of the ingredients you’ll want to keep in your bar room and kitchen before the big event.
- Spooky Sangria
Take your favorite recipe for red sangria and just add blood oranges. The rich color of this citrus fruit will make a glass of wine fit for a ghoul.
From your bar cabinets:
Brandy
Dry Spanish Red Wine
Club Soda (optional)
From the kitchen:
Fruit (blood oranges, apples, and anything else you’d like)
Orange and Lemon Juice
Sugar
- Black Magic
We’re all about Halloween hocus pocus, so we had to include this shimmering, spooky libation from Elle Talk. Made with boo-zy black vodka and pearl dust, your guests will be wondering about this mysterious and magical Halloween cocktail all night long.
From your bar cabinets:
Black Vodka (not always available but known to pop up on shelves in October)
Simple Syrup
Lime Juice
From the craft store:
White Edible Pearl Dust
- Hard Cider Pumpkin Float
Treat your guests to something sweet with this fall-inspired dessert drink from Dine & Delish. Made with two simple ingredients, this is an easy cocktail to whip up after dinner that will also satisfy your guests’ sweet tooth (and pumpkin spice cravings).
From your bar cabinets:
Hard Pumpkin Cider or Ale (recipe recommends Woodchuck Reserve Pumpkin Cider)
From your kitchen:
Ice Cream (recipe recommends Talenti Pumpkin Pie Gelato)
- Pirate Punch
You might find an eyeball or two in your cup of pirate punch—but don’t be afraid to take a bite. This spiked fruit punch contains lychees stuffed with berries for a spooky sight. Follow this punch recipe from Food and Wine (or whip up your favorite fruity punch) and then add one or two berry-stuffed lychees per serving.
From your bar cabinets:
Rum
Lime Juice
Simple Syrup
From your kitchen:
Lychees
Lychee Syrup
Berries
- Candy Corn Jell-O Shots
These Jell-O shots from That’s So Michelle taste like a Creamsicle and looks like your favorite Halloween candy. Fair warning: assembly takes a little patience, so be ready to put on your craft hat when preparing this menu item.
From your bar cabinets:
Vodka (recipe recommends Pinnacle whipped cream flavored vodka)
From the kitchen:
Orange Jell-O
Oranges
Coconut Milk
Gelatin
Sugar
- Glowing Gin Cocktail
If your party doesn’t glow in the dark, is it even a Halloween party? We decided to ditch the stick-on wall art for this Delish drink instead. Get out the black light and reveal the ghostly white glow of this classic gin cocktail.
From your bar cabinets:
Gin
Lemon Juice
Grenadine
Tonic Water
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