Top 13 Halloween Cocktails & Drinks – A Couple Cooks

Looking for an impressively spooky Halloween cocktail? Try the Witches Brew! Its neon green color might look menacing. But take a sip and it’s bright and sweet tart, with flavors of melon and citrus. Adding dry ice makes the brew bubble and boil, with a magic smoke that wisps into the air!

Ingredients: Midori melon liqueur, Cointreau, lemon juice

Another spooky Halloween drink: try the Vampire’s Kiss! This blood red drink is simply a berry-flavored vodka martini that’s masquerading as a sinister Halloween cocktail. Give it a sip and it’s sweet tart with a fruity berry finish. Dress it up with a red sugar rim and a chunk of dry ice: it bubbles and boils with a constant stream of smoke!

Ingredients: Vodka, Chambord black raspberry liqueur, cranberry juice, lemon juice, grenadine

Here’s a spooky drink that’s over-the-top fun: Halloween Punch! This blood red cauldron magically bubbles and boils, releasing tendrils of smoke all over the room. If that’s not impressive, we’re not sure what is! On its own it’s a fruity Halloween punch for kids, but turn it into a Halloween alcoholic punch by adding aged rum.

Ingredients: Cranberry juice, apple juice or cider, ginger ale, aged rum (optional)

What’s better for Halloween than a Pumpkin Martini? This drink is creamy and made with real pumpkin for the best natural flavor. Even better, coat the glass rim in crushed graham crackers and you get a hint of crunchy sweet in each sip! This is an ideal cocktail for impressing your friends at Halloween.

Looking for a Halloween cocktail that’s sippable and not too sweet? Try the Pumpkin Old Fashioned! This one is for bourbon-lovers: it’s a nuanced slow sipper with notes of vanilla, maple and spice. It’s barely sweet and bourbon-forward, ideal for sipping by the fireside or any fall occasion. While it’s bright orange, it tastes just like the Classic Old Fashioned you love…only cozier.

Ingredients: Bourbon, pumpkin puree, maple syrup, pumpkin pie spice, vanilla

Here’s a classic cocktail that’s as unique as its name…the Corpse Reviver No 2! While this drink has nothing scary or ghoulish about it, it’s perfect for Halloween: and it’s damn good. It’s a classic gin sour cocktail from the 1930’s that’s tart and zingy from lemon juice and orange liqueur, with a hint of licorice on the finish. It’s truly a stunner.

Ingredients: gin, lemon juice, Cointreau, dry vermouth or Lillet Blanc, absinthe

Here’s another classic cocktail that works as a Halloween drink, too: Death in the Afternoon! This iridescent green cocktail stars the combination of absinthe and sparkling wine, and the flavor is delightfully intriguing! It’s bubbly with a black licorice finish. Invented by writer Ernest Hemingway in the 1930’s, it’s the perfect Halloween cocktail.

Ingredients: absinthe, Champagne or Prosecco, simple syrup

This sweet and spiced pumpkin margarita is everything Halloween! Pumpkin butter, apple cider, tequila and ginger beer make magic. via Half Baked Harvest

Ingredients: Pumpkin butter, apple cider, tequila, Cointreau or Triple Sec, ginger beer for topping

Here’s a Halloween cocktail that’s completely over the top…but worth it if you’re an adventurous home bartender. Meet the Zombie! This classic cocktail packs a potent punch, with four types of rum, three fruit juices and two fruit syrups. It’s totally unnecessary…but then again, that makes it more festive! This cocktail was invented in the 1930’s and was one of the first of its kind…and the name makes it perfect for Halloween parties.

Ingredients: white rum, spiced rum, dark rum, 151 rum (optional), lime juice, lemon juice, pineapple juice, passion fruit syrup, orange bitters, grenadine

Here’s another classic that’s on theme as a Halloween cocktail: the good old Bloody Mary! This classic drink was invented in the 1920’s, and the combination of vodka and tomato juice has become one of the most popular in the world. For Halloween, add some spooky garnishes (pickled onion eyeballs, anyone?).

Ingredients: vodka, tomato juice, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco sauce, celery salt, black pepper

This Grave Digger cocktail brings all the haunted graveyard vibes! Mix up mezcal with orange liqueur, apple cider and ginger beer for a deliciously spooky Halloween cocktail. via Half Baked Harvest

Ingredients: Mezcal, spiced apple cider, lemon juice, Cointreau, orange bitters, ginger beer, rosemary

“It was a dark and stormy night” is the opener to many spooky tales, so it’s a great easy cocktail for Halloween! Each ingredient has lots of personality: the rich, earthy dark rum, with vanilla and brown sugar notes. Add to that spicy ginger beer, fruity and filled with effervescent bubbles, and tangy lime. Even better: you can mix it up right in the glass!

Ingredients: dark rum, ginger beer and lime

Last up in our Halloween cocktails, Nightmare on Bourbon Street! This one is sweet, spiced, and warming, featuring everyone’s favorite fall liquor. It’s the perfect haunted cocktail to cozy up to on Halloween Night! via Half Baked Harvest

Ingredients: Bourbon, apple cider, lemon, maple syrup, ginger, cinnamon, hard cider