HOLIDAYS
HOLIDAYS
Nothing shrieks "Halloweeeeeen" like cocktails with creepy, crawly garnishes.
Entice friends at your Halloween Party with Chocolate Tarantulatinis, Frozen Strawberry Spider Bites, or potions they mix themselves at a Mad Lab Cocktail Bar where edible eyeballs and mini body parts are the garnishes of choice.
You're sure to liven up the crowd, even the zombies, with these festive Halloween Treats!
While consuming real bugs may be a delicacy in certain countries, we’veopted for candy critters to give drinks a hair-raising effect.
- Prepare Martini glasses for this specialty drink by coating the rims with melted chocolate.
- Drop a candy tarantula in each glass.
- Place Chocolate Tarantulatini ingredients on the bar (recipe below).
- Give guests the option of chocolate candy cockroach garnishes as well!
Ingredients
- 1 oz. vodka
- 2 oz. Godiva Chocolate liqueur
- 1 oz. crème de cacao
- Melted chocolate chips for glass rim
- Candy tarantulas
Steps
- Melt chocolate chips in the microwave.
- Dip the rim of a Martini glass in the melted chocolate.
- Add ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice.
- Shake and strain into the chocolate-rimmed Martini glass with a candy tarantula.
Put an extra bite into your cocktails by decorating drink glasses withFondant Fangs. Fondant is edible sugar clay that is sometimes usedinstead of icing on cakes.
- Set up the Drac Attack ingredients on the bar (recipe below).
- Place the Fondant Fang glasses nearby (fang instructions below).
- Invite guests to mix up their own sweet sanguine cocktail in a Count Dracula inspired glass.
Ingredients
- 1/4 Cup frozen strawberries in syrup
- 1 oz. strawberry schnapps
- 2 oz. light rum
- 1 oz. fresh lemon juice
- 1/2 Cup crushed ice
- Candy Spider Sacs
Steps
- Add all ingredients into a blender and blend until smooth.
- Pour into a Margarita or Daiquiri glass and float a candy spider sac on top.
- Place the Fondant Fang glasses nearby (fang instructions below).To Make Fondant Fangs:
- Sprinkle cornstarch on your work surface.
- Roll out prepared white fondant just like you would roll out cookie dough.
- Use a knife to cut out 3-inch wide Dracula fangs.
- Line up the top edge of the fangs with the top rim of a wineglass.
- Apply a little water on the back of the fangs and adhere them to the glass.
- Accent fang tips with red icing gel to give them that "fresh bite" look.
- Invite guests to mix up their own sweet sanguine cocktail in a Count Dracula inspired glass.
The garnish on this Halloween Treat is about as gory as it gets. Top off frozen cocktails with candy spiders that have sweet oozing sacs.
- Place the Frozen Strawberry Spider Bite ingredients on the bar (recipe below).
- Set up Margarita glasses and a blender near the glasses.
- Display candy spider sacs in a grand apothecary jar or fun container.
- Invite guests to blend a cocktail, pour it in a glass, and float a spider on top!
Ingredients
- 1/4 Cup frozen strawberries in syrup
- 1 oz. strawberry schnapps
- 2 oz. light rum
- 1 oz. fresh lemon juice
- 1/2 Cup crushed ice
- Candy Spider Sacs
Steps
- Add all ingredients into a blender and blend until smooth.
- Pour into a Margarita or Daiquiri glass and float a candy spider sac on top.
Bring out the mad scientist in your guests by setting up a bar as a lab so everyone can mix their own cocktails.
- Put standard cocktail ingredients in food-friendly lab containers likebeakers, test tubes or flasks and arrange them on the bar.
- Place food injectors in the containers so guests can draw the liquid and inject it into their cocktail glasses.
- Make eyeball radishes (pictured) to garnish Bloody Marys or classic Martinis.
- Go for the gross-out factor with sweet cocktails by offering mini Organ Harvest Gummy Candies as garnishes.
- Give cocktails an eerie green accent with green glow straws.
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