Creepy Halloween Drinks

October 30, 7:12 PMSF Wine and Drinks ExaminerLiza Zimmerman

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Add some eyeball-inspired olives to your Martini.
Eyeball olives.

Tomorrow's holiday is not just for the kids. While they are out filling their candy bags treat yourself to some ghoulish cocktails. Here are six fun drinks and cocktail accessories you can enjoy for a festive evening at home:

1) Buy a batch of dry ice to place on your bar to that will smoke and look like a witch's caldron. Please be incredibly careful when handling dry ice.
2) Freeze water in latex gloves and float hand-shaped ice in your punch bowls.
3) Make olives for Martinis that look like eyeballs by stuffing a red-and-white stripped radish with an olive. It really does look a lot like an eyeball.
4) Mix up a classic drink like a Zombie to fete the festivities:

1 ounce fresh lime juice
1 ounce unsweetened pineapple juice
1 ounce orange juice
2 ounces dark rum (I love Barbancourt from Haiti)
½ ounce apricot brandy
½ once passion fruit syrup
1 teaspoon sugar
1 slice of orange for a garnish

Shake everything together over ice and strain into a chilled highball glass. Garnish with the orange slice.

5) Drink a black-colored Martini made with Blavod vodka, the only black vodka on the market.

6) Prepare a gory-named drink like the Bloody Fabulous to help you recover the next day:

3 46-ounce cans of tomato juice
1 bunch cilantro
1 bunch Thai basil
10 minced garlic cloves
8 red and green jalapenos, sliced

Mix all the ingredients together and let them marinate for two to three days. Add two ounces of Veev to each cocktail.
 
Happy Halloween,

Liza the Wine Chick