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1PATRÓN Pumpkin Spice Martini Recipe
PatronIngredients
- 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.
2Paloma Obscura
CazcabelIngredients
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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3Warm and Spiced
Red BullApples 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.
4Zombie
BacardiIngredients
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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5Bewitched Negroni
Silent PoolIngredients
- 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!
6Aperol Spritz (but spooky)
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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7Bloody Maria
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.
8Hot Toddy
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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9Smoked Rosemary Paloma
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.
10Ghouly Good Gimlet
Hungry CommunicationsIngredients
- 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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11Mr Black Espress-ooo martini
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.
12Green Buffalo
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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13Spiced Duppy Apple
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.
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15Spiced Pumpkin Cocktail
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.
16Betty Buzz Graveyard Smash
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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18The Blood Moon
provided by BacardiCombine 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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19Pan de Muertos
provided by merchantFor 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.
20Pumpkin Spiced Spritz
provided by merchantPour 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.

Dusty Baxter-Wright is an award-winning journalist and the Entertainment and Lifestyle Director at Cosmopolitan, having previously worked at Sugarscape. She was named one of PPA’s 30 Under 30 for her work covering pop culture, careers, interiors and travel, and oversees the site’s Entertainment and Lifestyle strategy across print, digital and video. As a journalist for the best part of a decade, she has interviewed everyone from Louis Theroux and Channing Tatum to Margot Robbie and Ncuti Gatwa, while she has also spoken on Times Radio and BBC Radio. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram here.

Daniella Scott is Senior Entertainment and Lifestyle Writer at Cosmopolitan UK. As part of her role, Danny covers all things entertainment, from true crime to scandalous drama (if there’s a con involved, she’s probably already binged it) and celebrity interviews, including Nicola Coughlan. Danny’s also across lifestyle, travel, interiors and food and drink, in both digital and print. So when she’s not trawling Instagram for the next best Ikea hack, she’s trying out cocktail recipes or pretending she has a driving license researching the UK’s best road trips.
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