Devilish Cocktails for Halloween
25-10-2014
Bombon party girls have chosen three of their favourite scary concoctions to share with you this Halloween. Add an extra touch by making some black ice - water with black food colouring, or slice a red hot chilli (seeds out) as devil horns for a spicy garnish.
Zombie
Ingredients:
1/2 ounce white rum
1 1/2 ounces golden rum
1 ounce dark rum
1/2 ounce 151-proof rum
1 ounce lime juice
1 teaspoon pineapple juice
1 teaspoon papaya juice
1 teaspoon superfine sugar
Instructions:
Stir together all these ingredients (the juice in the recipe is what mixologist David Embury calls the "mystery ingredient"; it can be pineapple juice, passion fruit nectar, coconut milk, apricot, or cherry brandy -- just about anything this side of Romilar) except the 151 and pour into a 14-ounce glass 3/4 full of cracked ice. Float the 151 as a lid (by pouring it into a spoon and gently dipping it under the surface of the drink). Then, if the spirit moves you, take a match to this mixture; it will burn. Garnish with mint (either straight or dipped in lime juice and then superfine sugar) and/or fruit. (A particularly fetching touch: On a toothpick, impale a lemon slice or pineapple cube between two maraschino cherries and lay this fruit kebab atop of the drink). Supply a straw and, after two, a hammock. After three: a stretcher!
Blue Banshee
A Halloween cocktail that will leave you screaming for more!
Ingredients:
35ml/1¼fl oz citrus vodka
1 tbsp blue curaçao
20ml/¾fl oz white cranberry juice
20ml/¾fl oz white grape juice
2 tbsp granulated sugar
Instructions:
Place all of the ingredients, except the sugar, into a cocktail shaker with a handful of ice and shake well.
Moisten the rim of a glass, then dip the rim into the sugar to lightly coat.
Strain the cocktail into the glass and serve.
Spellbound
Ingredients:
2 oz. Atomic Hot Vodka
1 oz. Sour Apple Schnapps
1 oz. apple juice
Instructions:
Rim martini glass with multi coloured sprinkles. Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake and strain into prepared martini glass. Garnish with a lime wedge.
