Spooky Sips 2025: Chic Halloween Cocktails for a Stylishly Sinister Night

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Halloween parties don’t have to mean plastic cups and candy corn. This year, elevate your evening with cocktails that are as sophisticated as they are spooky. Think jewel-toned elixirs, smoky mezcal infusions, and blood-orange twists served in crystal coupes. Whether you’re hosting an intimate gathering or a full-on masquerade, these spooky sips prove that elegance and edge can (and should) share the same glass.

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  • 1 ¾ oz Green Apple & Pink Peppercorn Infused El Siliencio Espadín

  • ½ oz Lime Juice

  • ½ oz Yuzu & Lemongrass Cordial

  • ⅓ oz Dolin Dry Vermouth 

  • 1 oz Filtered Water

  • Dash of Scrappy Grapefruit Bitters

Add all ingredients into a shaker with ice and shake until well-chilled.  Strain into a glass and garnish with a salted rim if desired.

Haunted Pumpkin Smash 

  • 2 parts Redemption High Rye Bourbon  

  • ½ part Lemon Juice  

  • ½ part Simple Syrup  

  • 2 barspoons Pumpkin Butter  

Combine all ingredients into a shaker tin and shake with ice until chilled and diluted. Double strain  into a rocks glass over cracked ice and garnish with a toasted marshmallow. 

Tres Agaves Very Superstitious 

Shake all ingredients hard, without ice. Add ice and shake until chilled. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass decorated with a chicken feather and garnish with a maraschino cherry

Spooky Spritz

  • 1 oz NOLET’S Silver Gin

  • 1.5 oz Ketel One Botanical Grapefruit & Rose

  • 0.25 oz Blood Orange Liqueur

  • 0.5 oz Fresh Lime Juice

  • Splash of Agave Nectar (to taste)

Assemble in a wine glass or balloon over ice, stir, and top with a splash of Ginger Beer.

Spooky Munster Martini

  • 3 or 4 mint leaves, plus a sprig for garnish

  • 1.5 ounces Staple Gin

  • .75 ounce Green Chartreuse

  • .75 ounce St-Germain liqueur

  • .75 ounce lime juice

Muddle mint leaves at the bottom of a cocktail shaker. Add the remaining ingredients and ice. Shake and strain into a chilled martini glass or coupe. Garnish with mint sprig.

Solsticio

  • 1 oz Mezcal Unión Uno

  • 1 oz Feijoa Extract

  • 0.25 oz Lime Juice

  • 0.5 oz Simple Syrup

  • 2 oz Butterfly Pea Tea

  • 2 dashes Orange Bitters

Mix ingredients together and pour over ice into a rocks glass. Garnish with an orange wedge.

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Chill the glass – place a coupe in the freezer or pack with ice, discarding the cubes just before serving.

Combine cognac, crème de cacao and cream in a cocktail shaker filled with clear ice. Shake vigorously until the shaker tin is frosted and the mixture feels luxuriously silky. Strain through a fine strainer into the chilled coupe to preserve its creamy texture. Garnish your cocktail with a light dusting of fresh, grated nutmeg to release warming spice aromas.