Hosting a Halloween bash? The kids can keep the candy while you treat the grown-ups to a fiendishly good holiday drink. These cocktails from Borracha Mexican Cantina, STK Los Angeles and Bottiglia Cucina Enoteca are bound to make your Halloween party a spooky hit!
Borracha’s One-Eyed Willy
Ingredients
- 2 oz. Botran Reserva Rum
- 1 oz. Cruzan Aged 151 Rum
- 1 oz. pineapple juice
- 1 oz. fresh lemon juice
- 1 oz. passionfruit puree
- ¾ oz. hibiscus syrup
- ½ oz. Giffard Orgeat Liqueur (Almond)
Method
Add all ingredients into mixing tin. Add ice and shake vigorously. Strain into skull glass over crushed ice. Garnish with pineapple top and hollowed half lime with 151 Rum on fire.
Borracha’s Heat of the Moment
Ingredients
- 2 slices Fresno chile
- 2 oz. Espolon Reposado Tequila
- 1 oz. passionfruit puree
- ½ oz. fresh lime juice
- ½ oz. agave syrup
Method
Add all ingredients into mixing tin. Add ice and shake vigorously. Strain over fresh ice into a big martini glass. Garnish with half cinnamon sugar rim, Fresno chili horns and lime spiral.
STK LA’s Green Goblin
Ingredients
- 2.75 oz Absolut Elyx
- .5 oz fresh lime juice
- .75 oz simple syrup
- 2 slices of jalapeno
- 4 basil leaves
Method
Add jalapenos and basil leaves into the mixing glass. Muddle. Add vodka, lime juice and simple syrup. Shake and double strain into a martini glass. Garnish with a jalapeno slice.
Bottiglia’s Blackberry Sage Tea Negroni
Ingredients
- 1 oz. Bulldog Gin
- 1 oz. Blackberry Sage Tea Infused Campari
- 1 oz. Cocchi di Torino
Method
Add all ingredients into mixing glass. Add ice and stir for 20 seconds, then strain over blackberry sage ice sphere. Garnish with orange peel wrapped around ice, skewered blackberry and sage sprig.
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