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50+ Halloween cocktails and drinks for 2025

The most frightfully spooky cocktail creations

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With Halloween just around the corner (the 31st October is a Friday this year and we're partying all weekend long) how about some Halloween cocktails to set the night off to a good start? Maybe you're shunning the traditional fancy dress party in favour of a cosy night in carving pumpkins and eating spooky snacks. Or maybe you're throwing a massive soirée with party games, drinking games and the like. Great! Either way, you'll need some Halloween-themed drinks to set the night alight, which is where these cocktail recipes come in.

Whether you're into gin cocktails or tequila cocktails, or maybe rum is your tipple of choice, there's definitely a recipe to suit you. Just make sure you're drinking responsibly (and maybe not all of them at once!)

1

PATRÓN Pumpkin Spice Martini Recipe

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Patron

Ingredients

  • 45ml Patrón Añejo
  • 60ml Orange juice
  • 45ml Pumpkin purée
  • 30ml Lemon juice
  • 30ml Monin Pumpkin spice syrup
  • Pumpkin spice blend for garnish
  • Orange twist for garnish

Method

In a cocktail shaker, add all ingredients (except the pumpkin spice blend and orange twist), and shake with ice. Strain the cocktail into a martini glass. Dust with pumpkin spice blend and garnish with an orange twist. Serve and enjoy.

2

Paloma Obscura

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Cazcabel

Ingredients

Method

Fill a highball glass with cubed ice. Shake together all of your ingredients except the grapefruit soda, before straining into your glass. Top up with your soda and finish with a grapefruit slice to garnish.

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3

Warm and Spiced

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Red Bull

Apples and bourbon, with the new Fuji Apple & Ginger Red Bull? It's a Halloween no-brainer.

Ingredients

  • 150ml Red Bull Winter Edition Fuji Apple & Ginger
  • 50ml bourbon
  • 15ml vanilla syrup
  • 10ml lemon juice
  • 25ml grape juice

Method

Add the bourbon, lemon juice and vanilla syrup to the bottom of a hi ball glass. Add ice to the top. Pour in the Red Bull Winter Edition until one finger width from the top of the glass. Top up the ice as required. Float the grape juice on top of the ice. Garnish with a thin apple slice and mix before drinking.

4

Zombie

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Bacardi

Ingredients

Method

In a cocktail shaker, combine the ingredients with ice before shaking to mix. Strain into crushed ice, stir and garnish with a cherry and orange slice.

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5

Bewitched Negroni

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Silent Pool

Ingredients

  • 25ml Silent Pool Gin
  • 25ml Campari
  • 25ml Sweet vermouth
  • 10ml Amaretto
  • 10ml Chocolate liqueur
  • A suitably spooky garnish – plastic spiders perhaps?

Method

Chill a rocks glass in the freezer or with ice. In a mixing glass, combine all the ingredients with ice cubes. Stir, don’t shake, gently for 20-30 seconds before straining into the prepared glass with fresh ice. Express the oils from an orange peel over the glass and add as a garnish alongside a spooky spider prop!

6

Aperol Spritz (but spooky)

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Ingredients

  • 75ml Prosecco
  • 50ml Aperol
  • 25mL Soda Water
  • Orange slice and orange peel bat

Method

Fill a large wine glass with lots of ice. First pour Prosecco, followed by Aperol. Add a dash of soda and stir, gently. Garnish with a slice of fresh orange and your orange peel bat creation.

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7

Bloody Maria

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Teremana® Tequila,

Ingredients

  • 50ml Teremana Blanco
  • 100ml Tomato Juice
  • 15 ml Fresh Lemon Juice
  • 4 dashes of Worcestershire
  • 3to 4 dashes of Mexican Hot Sauce
  • Pinch of Celery Salt
  • Pinch of Ground Pepper

Method

Build in a collins glass with ice and stir. Garnish with a lemon and lime wedge. Add olives, celery, and anything else desired.

8

Hot Toddy

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Ingredients

  • 50ml Smokehead Original
  • 1.5 teaspoons brown sugar
  • 25ml of lime cordial
  • 3 dashes pineapple bitters
  • 150ml hot water
  • Dried pineapple and a lemon twist for garnish

Method

Add 50ml Smokehead Original to a mug. Add your dashes of bitters and lime cordial. Top up with 150ml hot water and your sugar, and garnish with dried pineapple and lemon twist.

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9

Smoked Rosemary Paloma

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Ingredients

  • 50ml Brockmans Agave Cut
  • 12.5ml Lime Juice
  • 25ml Pink Grapefruit juice
  • 7.5ml Rosemary Syrup
  • 50ml Soda
  • Grapefruit Twist and Smoked Rosemary to garnish

Method

Add all non-carbonated ingredients to a shaker, add ice, and shake hard for five seconds. Strain into an ice filled glass and top with soda. Garnish with a twist of grapefruit and a smoked sprig of rosemary.

10

Ghouly Good Gimlet

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Hungry Communications

Ingredients

  • 1/2 tsp whole pink peppercorns
  • 60ml Hernö London Dry Gin
  • 30ml lime juice, freshly squeezed
  • 15ml simple syrup
  • A pinch of pink peppercorns to garnish

Method

In a cocktail shaker, gently crush and muddle the pink peppercorns. Add the gin, lime juice and simple syrup, fill with ice and shake well. Strain into a Nick & Nora glass and garnish with a few pink peppercorns.

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11

Mr Black Espress-ooo martini

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Combine 60ml Mr Black and 30ml espresso in a shaker with ice. Shake hard and strain into a coupe glass, before attempting your best The Nightmare Before Christmas-esque cocoa design on top.

12

Green Buffalo

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Shake 43 ml Buffalo Trace Bourbon Cream and 7ml Cream de Menthe with ice and strain into a coupe glass. Whip 85ml heavy cream with one ice cube. Pour cream over back of barspoon into glass to create top layer. Garnish with sprinkles or other decoration of your choice.

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13

Spiced Duppy Apple

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Pour 50ml Duppy Share Spiced Rum, 50ml Apple Juice, 20ml Coconut Syrup, 20ml Bristol Ginger Syrup, 25ml Fresh Lime Juice and 2 drops of Angostura Bitters into a highball glass over ice and stir. Garnish with grated cinnamon, a slice of apple and a cherry.

14

Bucket of blood

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Fill a highball glass with ice, and add 50ml Captain Morgan Spiced Gold or 50ml Captain Morgan Alcohol Free Rum, before adding 75ml orange juice and 50ml lemonade. Slowly drizzle in 25ml grenadine so it sinks to the bottom, and garnish with orange horns.

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15

Spiced Pumpkin Cocktail

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To make a pumpkin syrup, marinate cubed pumpkin in a container with sugar syrup, vanilla pods and cinnamon sticks. Muddle together to extract the water from the pumpkin, sieve and bottle. To make the cocktail, add 50ml Jaisalmer Indian Craft Gin, 25ml Pumpkin and Cinnamon Vanilla Syrup and 20ml Lemon Juice to a Boston glass, shake, and double strain into a Martini glass. Garnish with cinnamon sticks.

16

Betty Buzz Graveyard Smash

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Muddle fresh blackberries mixed with a splash of black currant juice. Pour mixture into a glass with ice. Add 25ml tequila if desired. Top with 1/2 can or bottle of Betty Buzz Sparkling Lemon Lime. Garnish with fresh blackberries, cinnamon and lime wheels.

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17

Apple Fizz

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Fill a highball glass with ice. Add 50ml Captain Morgan Sliced Apple Rum, 75ml lemonade and 75ml apple juice. Garnish with a lime wedge.

18

The Blood Moon

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Combine 40ml BACARDÍ Carta Blanca Rum, 15ml Monin blood orange syrup and 15ml lime juice in a shaker. Shake vigorously over ice. Strain into a highball glass and top with 60ml ginger beer. Garnish with a blood orange slice and a cherry.

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19

Pan de Muertos

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For Día de Muertos (aka Day Of The Dead), add 50ml Patrón Reposado, 15ml orgeat, 20ml lime juice, 15ml orange liqueur and 25ml pineapple juice into a shaker. Shake and strain. Serve in a highball or skull mug with crushed ice, and garnish with a caramelised orange wedge and three pineapple leaves.

20

Pumpkin Spiced Spritz

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Pour 35ml Caorunn Gin, 40ml Spiced Pumpkin Shrub, 50ml Soda Water and 5 Dashes Peychaud’s Bitter over a highball glass full of ice. Garnish with discarded pumpkin ash.

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