Spooky drink ideas to spike your Halloween party this weekend

Credit: Michelle Fong

Credit: Michelle Fong

If you're throwing a Halloween party, try these devilish ideas to serve and impress your guests.

Alien Shooter

Ingredients

- Silver Tequila

- Green gummy bears soaked in Midori

- Shot glasses

How

Fill a mason jar with green gummy bears and pour Midori into the jar about an inch or two above the gummy bears and let soak for 24-hours at room temperature. Stir them around a bit to avoid them from sticking together.

Next, add the gummy bears to your shot glasses and pour tequila over it. Hand a few to your friends.

Sweet Poison Cocktail

Ingredients

- Light Rum

- Coconut Rum

- Blue Curacao

- Pineapple Juice and a Pineapple Wedge for garnish

How

Shake together 1 ounce of light rum and blue curacao and 2 ounces of coconut rum and pour into a chilled glass. Fill the rest of your glass with cold pineapple juice and top the rim with a pineapple wedge. (Serving size: 1 person)

The Poisoned Apple 

Ingredients

- 2 ounces apple cider

- 1 ounce pomegranate juice

- 2 ounces tequila

- Several chips of dry ice (keep small so guests don’t get frostbite)

How

Blend the ingredients together in a martini shaker, shake and strain into a chilled glass. Drop the dry ice in for the smoky effect and serve.

(Serving size: 1 person)

Ghost in the Graveyard

Ingredients

- Black Vodka

- Crème de Cacao or Coffee-flavored liqueur

- Vanilla ice cream

- Finely grated nutmeg

How

Combine the coffee-flavored liqueur in with the vodka and set to the side. Place a scoop of ice cream into a glass and pour the vodka mixture over the ice cream. Top with nutmeg and serve immediately.

The Harley Quinn

Ingredients

- Cherry Vodka

- Tequila

- Rum

- Grenadine

- Pineapple Juice

- Black Sanding Sugar & black food coloring

- Simple syrup

- Ice

How

Pour 1 cup of sugar into a zip-close sandwich bag and mix with black food coloring. Dip the rim of your glasses into the sugar. Add vodka, tequila, rum and grenadine into a bar shaker with a few ice cubes and shake until fully mixed. Pour into glass and top with pineapple juice. Yum.

Alien Brain Hemorrhage

Ingredients

- Peach Schnapps

- Baileys

- Blue Curacao

- Grenadine

How

Pour peach schnapps into shot glass half full and pour the Baileys into or gently on top of the schnapps. For the red, bloody look you'll want to gently dab a few squirts of grenadine onto the mixture and do the same with the blue curacao for the green, decaying appeal. It tastes like gummy worms, enjoy.

Swamp Juice for the Kids

Ingredients

- 12-ounce can of frozen limeade, thawed

- 2 liter bottle of Sprite, 7-Up or Gingerale

- 1 quart lime sherbet

- Gummy worms, frozen strawberries, plastic spiders, plastic eyeballs and dry ice

- Green food coloring

How

Combine Sprite (or 7-Up, Gingerale) and limeade into a punch bowl. Add lime sherbet by the spoonfuls, and add your gummy worms, plastic spiders and eyeballs, or frozen strawberries to make this juice extra spooky.

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