12 Adult Halloween Drinks to Set the Mood

(Editor's Note: These recipes and imformation are provided by BevMo!, which has a store in Laguna Niguel.) 

Looking for inspiration for that perfectly spooky cocktail or spine-chillingly tasty beverage to serve your goblins, ghosts, witches this Halloween? Look no further, BevMo!’s Top 12 Halloween cocktails are here to scare your taste buds into tasty submission.

Candy Corn Martini                                                                    

• ¼ cup candy corn                                       
• 4 ounces Grey Goose Vodka                               
• BevMo! Tonic Water
• Garnish with orange sprinkles            

Black Cloud Martini

• ½ cup Boylan’s orange soda                                           
• 1 cup orange juice
• 1 shot Bauchant Orange Liqueur
• 2 shots Blavod Black Vodka
• 2 licorice wheels

Ghost Goblet

• 3 ounces UV Cake Vodka                               
• 2 ounces half & half
• 1 scoop vanilla ice cream                             
• 1 cup ice
• Garnish with 1 Peeps Ghost marshmallow

Bleeding Heart Martini                                                            

• 2 ounces Dolin De Chambery Dry Vermouth
• 8 ounces G’vine Floraison Gin
• 4 Pickled Baby Beets, and Mezzetta Pickles Cocktail Onions each placed on a cocktail skewer
• Ice cubes

Blood Orange Shots                                                    

• 1 1/2 cups fresh blood-orange juice (from 7 to 8 blood oranges), chilled
• 6 tablespoons Solerno Blood-Orange Liqueur

Witches Brew                                                                                 

• 1 cup water, as needed
• 2 (1.5 fluid ounce) Stirrings Grenadine Syrup, or as desired (optional)
• Large plastic cauldron (from party store)
• 2 gallons orange juice
• 2 (2 liter) bottles lemon-lime soda
• 1 liter Three Olives Vodka
• 2 bottles Charles Ninot Sparkling Wine Brut (but one bottle and get the second for 5 cents!)
• 2 gallons orange sherbet
• 1 cup peeled green grapes (optional)

Bloody Tooth Cocktail                                                            

• 1 1/2 ounces Bullet Straight Rye Whiskey
• 1 1/2 ounces pomegranate juice
• 1 ounce Stirrings Simple Syrup
• 1/2 ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice
• Ice cubes
• Pomegranate seeds, for garnish
• Lemon twist, for garnish

Black Lagoon Cocktail                                                                 

• 2 ounces Skyy Vodka

• 1 ounce of Blue Curacao Liqueur
• Martinelli’s Lemonade
• Ice

Ghost in the Graveyard                                                                

• 2 ounces Absolute 100 Proof Black Vodka
• 2 ounces creme de cacao or coffee-flavored liqueur
• 1 scoop vanilla ice cream
• Pinch of finely grated nutmeg, for garnish

Bloody Mary                                                                                      

• Zing Zang Bloody Mary Mix
• 2 ounces of Belvedere Bloody Mary Vodka
• Celery stalks, for garnish
• Scallions, dark-green parts only, for garnish

Pina Ghoulada                                                                                

For the "blood:"

 Stirrings Grenadine Syrup

For the drink:·       

20 ounces Langers Pineapple Juice·        

15 ounces of Coco Real Cream of Coconut·        

1/2 cup heavy cream·       

 1 cup orange juice·       

 10 ounces Kraken Black Spiced Rum 

Dark and Stormy Death Punch    

• One 20-ounce can lychees in heavy syrup
• 1/4 cup thinly sliced peeled fresh ginger
• 16 brandied cherries
• 1/4 cup superfine sugar
• 1/2 cup fresh lime juice
• 12 ounces Mount Gay Rum Eclipse
• Three 12-ounce bottles Bundaburg Ginger Beer
• Ice cubes