10 Halloween Cocktails: Sweet, Spooky and Sophisticated

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Discover 10 cocktails that are ideal for Halloween. Some are sweet. Some are spooky. Some are sophistiated. They’re all ghoulishly good.

Halloween only happens one night each year. It’s a great holiday for kids of all ages – including adults who lean into the holiday with festive costumes and creative cocktails.

While we can’t help you with the costumes, we’ve got you covered with ten cocktails that embrace the holiday and bring the ‘boos’ to any Halloween party. The only question is whether you want to go the sweet or sophisticated route. Whichever you choose, don’t forget to pair the drinks your Halloween candy!

Halloween Cocktail Recipes

1. Gummy Bear Cocktail

The gummy bear cocktail is a fun and fruity drink that literally tastes like liquid gummy bears. However, unlike the colorful candy, this drink is for grown ups only.

Gummy Bear Cocktail Recipe

Corpse Reviver No. 2 Cocktail from Above

2. Corpse Reviver No. 2

The Corpse Reviver No. 2 tastes like a dream despite its nightmare-inducing name. Plus, as an added bonus, the gin cocktail allegedly doubles as a hangover cure.

Corpse Reviver No. 2 Recipe

Dark and Stormy Cocktail with Black Background from Above

3. Dark and Stormy

The Dark and Stormy cocktail will make you feel happy despite its spooky name. We suspect that the rum-based drink would have made Edgar Allen Poe happy too.

Dark and Stormy Recipe

Orange Creamsicle Cocktail Next to Brown Tiles

4. Orange Creamsicle Cocktail

The orange creamsicle cocktail is a decadent creamsicle drink that's a boozy, grown-up version of the summertime ice cream treat. Plus, its color is delightfully orange as the name suggests.

Orange Creamsicle Cocktail Recipe

Blood and Sand Cocktail with Black Backgournd

5. Blood and Sand

Despite its scary sounding name, the classic Blood and Sand cocktail is neither bloody nor sandy. Instead, the sophisticated scotch cocktail is smooth and sweet.

Blood and Sand Recipe

Grasshopper Cocktail with White Background

6. Grasshopper

The Grasshopper cocktail is a sweet pre-prohibition classic with a history rooted in New Orleans. And, yes, it's green. Very green.

Grasshopper Recipe

7. Lemon Drop Martini

The Lemon Drop Martini is a classy citrus sipper that's served with a frosty, sugar-studded rim. It's fun for Halloween since the vodka cocktail tastes like liquid candy.

Lemon Drop Martini Recipe

8. Bloody Mary

Start or end your Halloween with a Bloody Mary. The savory red cocktail is bloody delicious with no bandages required

Bloody Mary Cocktail

Bloody Caesar Cocktail with Peach Background

9. Bloody Caesar

Canadians have taken the Bloody Mary to the next level with the addition of Clamato. The result is a bloody delicious cocktail that's ideal for Halloween.

Bloody Caesar Recipe

10. Espresso Martini

Halloween parties can go late. The Espresso Martini is a buzzy cocktail that will keep you going long after the kiddies come home with their trick-or-treat loot.

Espresso Martini Recipe

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Saveur Magazine’s BEST TRAVEL BLOG award winners Daryl and Mindi Hirsch share their culinary travel experiences and recipes on their website 2foodtrippers. Since launching the site in 2012, they’ve traveled to over 40 countries in their quest to bring readers a unique taste of the world.