Want your trick-or-treating loot in a cocktail glass instead of a bag? Metro has you covered! Here are creepy cocktails to put a spooky spin on any party.
Bobbing for Apples Time Martini
Ingredients:
2 oz. Absolut vodka
2 oz. apple juice
½ oz. simple syrup
5 sprigs of fresh thyme
1 large green apple, peeled and made into spheres with a melon baller
4 sprigs fresh thyme (for garnish, optional)
How to prepare:
—Created by Sara Legenhausen
Ghost Buster
Ingredients:
1¼ oz. Karma tequila
1 oz. fresh pear nectar
½ oz. homemade sweet and sour
¼ oz. H. Walker pear Schnapps
1 lime wedge (squeezed)
1 dash Amoretti pumpkin spice edible perfume
Garnish:
Bosc pear, hand-carved (see photo)
Cinnamon powder
White sugar
How to prepare: In the mixing glass, pour Karma Tequila and pear nectar (make sure you are using pear nectar and not pear juice — otherwise your drink will be runny and flavorless instead of smooth and slick). Next, add the homemade sweet and sour (mix 16 ounces of fresh squeezed lemon juice with 16 ounces of simple syrup). Finish by adding the pear Schnapps, Amoretti and a squeeze of a lime wedge (plus the lime) in the mixing glass. Fill the shaker with ice, pour the mix from the mixing glass into the shaker and shake your Ghost Buster. Pour into a cocktail glass rimmed with cinnamon sugar, and then garnish with a carved pear.
—Created by Karma Tequila
The Witch’s Eye
Ingredients:
3-4 fresh grapes
1½ oz. Pisco
Sparkling sake
1 frozen whole grape (garnish)
How to prepare: Muddle the grapes; add in Pisco, and strain contents into flute glass. Top with sparkling sake and add a frozen whole grape as a garnish.
— Created by Zengo
Spider’s Kiss
Ingredients:
1 oz. Absolut vodka
1 oz. Midori liquor
½ oz. lemon syrup
Chocolate syrup
Grenadine
Chocolate covered orange for garnish (optional)
How to prepare
—Sabina and Lorraine Belkin
Ingredients:
1½ oz. Svedka Vanilla
¾ oz. whole milk
¼ oz. simple sugar syrup
1 tsp. pumpkin pie syrup
¼ tbsp. fig jam
How to prepare: Shake and strain into a martini glass and garnish with ground nutmeg on top.
— Created by 1OAK