The Best Halloween Cocktails to Make in 2026

Halloween is the one night of the year when your drink is allowed to be as extra as your costume. This year's crop of spooky sips leans into the drama: a Corpse Reviver with a whisper of absinthe, a poison apple that shimmers with gold glitter, a jet-black espresso martini from Miami, and a margarita with cranberry and jalapeño heat. Five cocktails, zero tricks. All treats.

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Corpse Reviver

• 0.75 oz Cointreau

• 0.75 oz The Botanist gin

• 0.75 oz Lillet Blanc

• 0.75 oz fresh lemon juice

• 1 dash absinthe

  Combine all ingredients in a shaker. Add ice and shake until well-chilled. Strain into a glass.

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Poison Carmel Apple

Cocktail by @afullliving

• 2 oz Empress 1908 Indigo Gin

• 0.5 oz caramel syrup

• 0.5 oz fresh lemon juice

• 1 oz apple cider

• 1 oz pomegranate juice

• Pinch of edible gold glitter (optional)

• Caramel sauce, to rim

  Add all of the ingredients to a cocktail shaker with ice and shake until chilled. Strain into a glass rimmed with caramel sauce.

  Note: If serving with dry ice, handle it with gloves and tongs, and let it melt completely before sipping.

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Cereal Killer

• 1.5 oz Breckenridge Honey Whiskey

• 0.5 oz Breckenridge Espresso Vodka

• 6 oz Count Chocula cereal milk

• 1 oz chocolate syrup

  Method: Shake all ingredients with ice. Strain and serve over ice.

  GARNISH: Marshmallow whip ghost inside glass. Crushed Count Chocula cereal rim.

  *Cereal milk: add 1 cup Count Chocula cereal and 2 cups milk to a sealed jar. Shake and refrigerate for an hour. Strain out cereal and return milk to the refrigerator.

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Naughty & Spice

• 1.5 oz Tres Agaves Blanco Tequila

• 3 oz Tres Agaves Spicy Jalapeño Margarita Mix

• 1 heaping tablespoon organic cranberry sauce

• Fine salt (rim)

• Sliced jalapeños & cranberries (garnish)

  Add base ingredients into a shaking tin and fill with ice. Shake for 10 seconds and strain into an ice-filled rocks glass. Garnish with sliced jalapeños & cranberries.

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