Gruesome Halloween shooter recipes

October 8, 9:55 AMKansas City Cocktails ExaminerAngie Rayfield

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What is it about Halloween? At every Halloween party, there will be at least one person with a glass of something that looks so revolting, it's hard to come up with any reason a normal person would drink it. Most of the time, the drink has a name as awful as it looks.

There's no good reason to drink any of these shooters. Each of them takes advantage of what is usually the least appealing characteristic of Irish cream - if not mixed carefully, it curdles. These shooters look terrible, and it's hard to imagine that they taste any better. Maybe they're improved by excess Halloween spirit.

Maggots

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• ½ ounce vodka
• ½ ounce peach schnapps
• ½ ounce Irish Cream
• ½ ounce Kahlua

Pour all ingredients into a rocks glass in the order given, but do not mix. Once all ingredients are in the glass, shake slightly. The Irish cream will curdle and look like maggots.

Writhing Maggots

• 1/3 shot Irish cream
• 1/3 shot Mandarine Napoleon
• 1/3 shot sweet vermouth

Build in a shot glass but do not mix, just shake slightly if needed to curdle the Irish cream. The look is very similar to the Maggots shot. The flavor? You're not drinking it for the flavor.

Brain Hemorrhage

• 1 ½ ounce peach schnapps
• ¼ ounce Irish cream
• splash of Grenadine

CocktailTimes.com dubbed this shot the Worst Cocktail of the Century. Pour the schnapps into a shot glass. Slowly add the Irish cream, allowing it form a curdled mass in the schnapps. (This is the brain, floating in formaldehyde.) Dribble the grenadine directly into the center of the glob of Irish cream. As the amount of grenadine increases, it will eventually burst through the Irish cream and ooze to the bottom of the glass, creating the “hemorrhage”.

Enjoy the Halloween fun!