28 Best Halloween Cocktail Recipes to Celebrate Spooky Season

This drink might have you feeling like the walking dead after one glass, but it’ll taste revitalizing on the way down.

Ingredients

• 1/2 oz white rum
• 1 1/2 oz golden rum
• 1 oz dark rum
• 1/2 oz 151 proof rum
• 1 oz lime juice
• 1 tsp pineapple juice
• 1 tsp papaya juice
• 1 tsp superfine sugar

Directions

Stir together all the ingredients except the 151. Pour the mixture into a 14-ounce glass three-fourths 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. Garnish with mint or fruit.

Pumpkin pie is an essential autumn dessert. Therefore, a pumpkin-pie martini should be an essential autumn cocktail.

Ingredients

• 2 oz Jeptha Creed Wheated bourbon
• 2 dashes Ne Oublie Black Walnut bitters
• 1 oz egg white
• 1/2 oz spiced simple syrup
• 1 oz pumpkin puree
• Graham cracker crumbs
• Chocolate ganache

Directions

Rim martini glass with ganache and graham cracker crumbles and chill. Add all other ingredients to a shaker without ice and shake. Add ice, shake again. Double-strain into martini glass.

Trust the name on this one. The brain duster contains three ounces of liquor, one of them being absinthe. Yet it’s a surprisingly smooth blend. Just watch how many you have!

Ingredients

• 1 oz rye whiskey
• 1 oz absinthe
• 1 oz Italian vermouth
• 1 dash Angostura bitters

Directions

Stir ingredients well with cracked ice in a mixing glass. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

(Created by Fear City Gin)

A devilish twist on the Negroni from Fear City Gin, this cocktail turns juicy pomegranate and the herbal flavors of gin and Campari into a satisfying and enchanting cocktail.

Ingredients

• 1 oz Fear City gin
• 1 oz Campari
• 1 oz dry vermouth
• 1 oz pomegranate juice

Directions

Add the gin, Campari, dry vermouth, and pomegranate juice to a rocks glass over ice. Stir until cold. Garnish with an orange peel and dying rose for extra drama.

(Created by Yael Vengroff)

The name of this concoction doesn’t mince words. The corpse reviver will certainly light a fire under you that could wake the dead.

Ingredients

• 1 oz Harmony gin or Origen vodka
• 1 oz Lillet Blanc
• 1 oz Cointreau
• 1 oz lemon juice
• 1 oz spring water
• 1 dash absinthe (optional)

Directions

Rinse your glass with absinthe. Build ingredients in a shaker filled with ice and shake until chilled. Strain into a martini or coupe glass. Garnish with a lemon peel.

Spiced-rum fans, rejoice! This spicy autumnal cocktail will warm your soul.

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 oz Kōloa Spice rum
• 1 oz lemon juice
• 1/2 oz maple syrup
• 1/2 oz triple sec
• 2 oz sparkling apple cider
• Ground cinnamon

Directions

Add Kōloa Spice rum, lemon juice, maple syrup, and triple sec to a mixing glass with ice. Stir well, then gently add cold sparkling apple cider. Strain into a wineglass and garnish with a warmed cinnamon stick.

An espresso martini walked into a pumpkin patch ... and came back extra delicious.

Ingredients

Directions

Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with three coffee beans and grated nutmeg.

Tequila and apple cider pair surprisingly well together in this tasty spiced cocktail.

Ingredients

• 2 oz Partida Añejo tequila
• 6 oz hot spiced apple cider
• Heavy cream

Directions

In a small warm glass, add tequila then hot apple cider. Float heavy cream on top. Grate fresh nutmeg over the cream.

Nothing screams fall like apple cider, and nothing screams party like some Champagne. So mix them together and do the monster mash.

Ingredients

• 4 oz brut Champagne
• 2 oz all-natural apple cider
• 1 oz cinnamon whiskey

Directions

Mix cider and cinnamon whiskey in a Champagne flute. Top with Champagne, then stir lightly until incorporated. Garnish with an apple slice.

(Created by Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum)

Who doesn’t love pumpkin pie? Turns out it’s even more delicious when you turn it into a rum cocktail.

Ingredients

Directions

Combine ingredients in a shaker with ice and shake hard so the pumpkin butter mixes with the other liquids well. Stir gently on medium-low heat for 30 minutes.

(Created by Jose Alejandro Ibañez, principal bartender at Employees Only)

This tequila cocktail conjures up images of magic and potions. Luckily it tastes more like a delicious tropical getaway.

Ingredients

• 1 3/4 oz Mijenta tequila blanco
• 1 oz fresh lime
• 3/4 oz mango puree
• 1/2 oz lemongrass/cinnamon syrup
• 1/2 oz Strega liqueur
• 1/2 oz Lejay (crème de cassis) float

Directions

Build ingredients in a shaker, mix, and strain into into a tall glass with crushed ice. Garnish with a witch’s broom made of a cinnamon stick and a sprig of rosemary.

(Created by El Tequileño Tequila)

This drink proves that margaritas are good year-round! In fact, all it was missing was that essential fall flavor of pumpkin spice.

Ingredients

• 2 oz El Tequileño Reposado Gran Reserva
• 1 oz orange liqueur
• 1 oz lime juice
• 2 oz spiced pumpkin puree

Directions

Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake until cold. Strain into a rocks glass over cubed ice.

The name of this cocktail suggests heavy bitter flavors, but it’s actually quite light and refreshing.

Ingredients

• 2 oz dark rum
• 3 oz ginger beer
• 1/2 oz lime juice (optional)

Directions

Fill a tall glass with ice cubes. Add rum. Pour in ginger beer and lime juice. Stir with a barspoon. Garnish with a lime wedge. Enjoy.

Mix together this super-easy two-ingredient cocktail that doesn’t lack complexity and you’ll stay up all night raising the dead.

Ingredients

• 2 oz vodka
• 1 oz coffee liqueur

Directions

Stir ingredients with ice in a mixing glass. Strain into an old-fashioned glass over fresh ice.

Just as the name suggests, this cocktail is as classic as they come. But sometimes the more vintage something is, the better it stands the test of time.

Ingredients

• 2 oz rye or bourbon
• 2 dashes Angostura bitters
• 1 sugar cube
• Club soda

Directions

Place the sugar cube in an old-fashioned glass. Wet it with Angostura bitters and a short splash of club soda. Crush the sugar with a wooden muddler, then rotate the glass so that the sugar grains and bitters give it a lining. Add a large ice cube. Pour in the whiskey, then garnish with an orange twist.

Craving a little sweet treat on Halloween? That’s only natural. But since you’re not knocking on anyone’s door for candy, try this Irish-coffee recipe instead.

Ingredients

• 2 oz Irish whiskey
• 5 oz hot coffee
• 2 tsp sugar
• Heavy cream

Directions

Pour the whiskey, coffee, and sugar into a stemmed, heated glass mug. Stir, then top it off with a thick layer of lightly whipped heavy cream. Don’t stir it in. Optional: Sprinkle some pumpkin spice on top.

If this is the last drink you ever have, you won’t regret imbibing the funky, tart, and easy-to-sip gin cocktail.

Ingredients

• 3/4 oz gin (or genever)
• 3/4 oz maraschino liqueur
• 3/4 oz green Chartreuse
• 3/4 oz fresh lime juice

Directions

Add all ingredients into a shaker. Shake well with cracked ice. Strain into a coupe glass. Garnish with a lime wedge and Luxardo cherry.

This Italian classic is bitter, complex, and the perfect accompaniment to your Halloween-night horror-movie marathon.

Ingredients

• 1 oz London dry gin
• 1 oz Campari
• 1 oz vermouth rosso

Directions

Add the ingredients together into a mixing glass. Stir well with cracked ice. Strain into a glass over cubed ice. Garnish with a twist of orange peel.

Who can resist an espresso martini? The intoxicating combination of coffee liqueur and vodka makes this drink a win for any occasion.

Ingredients

• 2 oz Grey Goose vodka
• 1/2 oz Mr Black coffee liqueur
• 3/4 oz simple syrup
• 1 1/2 oz fresh espresso

Directions

Shake ingredients with ice and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with two or three coffee beans.

Pay homage to New Orleans, one of the most haunted cities in America, by whipping up a traditional Sazerac.

Ingredients

• 1 sugar cube
• 2 1/2 oz rye whiskey
• 2 dashes Peychaud’s bitters
• 1 dash Angostura bitters
• Absinthe

Directions

In an old-fashioned glass, muddle a sugar cube with a few drops of water. Add several small ice cubes, then rye whiskey, Peychaud’s bitters, and Angostura bitters. Stir well. Roll a few drops of absinthe around another chilled old-fashioned glass until its inside is thoroughly coated. Pour off the excess. Strain the contents of the first glass into the second. Garnish with a twist of lemon peel.