Best Halloween Cocktails: Simple & Spooky Cocktails for October Party

If Halloween is your favorite time of year, you're not alone! We have put together a selection of the greatest Halloween-themed whiskey cocktail recipes so you may sip them throughout the spooky season. 

Rather than settling for the ordinary, choose the best Halloween cocktails to wow your guests at your haunted house party!

Best cocktails for Halloween

Corpse Reviver No. 2

Invented in the 1870s, this popular hangover recipe is said to even raise the spirits of its original drinkers thanks to its wonderful blend of Lillet Blanc, orange liqueur, London dry gin, and lemon juice. 

If served in an absinthe-rinsed glass, it's a great option for brunches as well as Halloween parties.

Corpse Reviver No. 2

Pumpkin Sazerac

The most well-known drink in New Orleans, the Sazerac, is a spirit-forward blend of cognac, rye whiskey, sugar cube, and bitters that is served in an absinthe-rinsed glass. 

This recipe uses spiced pumpkin syrup in place of the sugar cube and calls for a base of cognac or rye whiskey.

Pumpkin Sazerac

Jack-O-Lantern

Although it doesn't taste like pumpkin pie, it certainly has that appearance. This wonderful Halloween cocktail is made with cognac, orange liqueur, and orange juice, and is finished with ginger ale. 

All you need for a fantastic garnish that takes it from ordinary to extraordinary—perfect for Halloween—is an orange and a lime.

Jack-O-Lantern

Black Widow

The mysterious and menacing black widow is nothing more than a vodka cranberry recipe with a Halloween theme. You will need to make your own black vodka or obtain Blavod in order for it to work.

Black Widow

Mad Eye Martini

This amazing drink has a great flavor and the typical light blue tint of Hpnotiq, along with a delicate lychee touch. 

While the membrane-like aspect of the lychee fruit offers a great base, making the eerie garnish is very easy and may take some practice to get the right appearance.

Mad Eye Martini

Grave Digger

This unusual cocktail will wake you up when paired with the best Halloween movies of all time.

Grand Marnier, coffee liqueur, vanilla-infused brandy, and freshly made espresso topped with crushed Oreo cookies and whipped cream are all included within the glass.

Grave Digger

Candy Apple Cocktail

Bobbing for apples is a classic pastime that may be made even more amazing by providing an apple-licious drink to everyone at the event. 

This is a sweet cocktail with an apple taste that combines caramel-flavored moonshine with sparkling cider, apple liqueur, and cranberry juice.

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Candy Apple Cocktail

Skeleton Key

A great choice if you're looking for a light and enjoyable beverage is Skeletal Key.  An easy bleeding garnish of ginger beer and elderflower tops off this best Halloween cocktail. Take that bitter bottle away!

Skeleton Key

Autumn

This recipe combines applejack, pear brandy, amontillado sherry, maple syrup, and apple bitters to capture the tastes of the season. 

To make a Hot Toddy variation of the cocktail, just combine the ingredients, top with boiling water, and garnish.

Autumn

Wolf Bite

Serve your friends a round of Halloween shots and the amazing Wolf Bite, one of the best Halloween cocktail recipes. 

It's a crazy scientist's experiment gone wrong, but you have to see this entertaining shot of melon liqueur and absinthe before it goes down. It has a blood-red covering.

Wolf Bite

Peanut Butter Cup

This sweet and creamy beverage resembles a liquid peanut butter cup. Mix chocolate liqueur, peanut rum, chocolate vodka, and cream. Put your Reese’s stash to good use as the garnish.

Peanut Butter Cup

Zombie

Numerous cocktail recipes draw their names from frightening evening events. Among them, the original zombie is well-liked; it differs somewhat from the zombie punch. 

These traditional fruit-and-rum-filled tropical drinks will keep the party going late into the night.

Zombie

Frog in a Blender

Some drinks are just marketing gimmicks. The frog in a blender is one of those, and this slushie made of vodka and cranberries is a very interesting concept. 

Remember that not blending it as finely as a margarita will preserve all the chunky green lime chunks and give the impression of a witch's brew.

Frog in a Blender

Your cocktail's look and taste are also determined by the type of glass you choose, in addition to the ingredients and recipe you use. 

But different kinds of drinks call for different glasses; a coupe or martini glass goes nicely with a Collins or Highball glass, for instance.