Autumnal Halloween Cocktail Recipes That Your Wedding Guests Will Love

Halloween is nearly upon us so to celebrate we thought we would share a Halloween cocktail recipe or two; perfect for a Halloween wedding. To be honest they look wonderful for any autumnal wedding – or indeed any wedding! For the teetotals amongst you (or the drivers) simply swap out the booze!

 

Honey and Pomegranate Cosmopolitan

With Rowse Honey

Serves 3

 

Ingredients:

4 tbsp pomegranate juice drink from a carton

4 tbsp orange juice

4 tbsp freshly squeezed lime juice (3-4 limes)

2 tbsp Rowse Clear Honey

6 tbsp vodka (optional)

Handful of ice cubes

Twist of orange peel, to garnish (optional)

 

Method:

1. Honey and pomegranate makes a great alternative to the classic cosmopolitan. You can leave out the vodka for a mocktail. This amount makes 2-3 cocktails depending on the size of glasses.
2. Put all of the ingredients apart from the orange peel into a cocktail shaker with the ice. Shake vigorously then strain into two or three cocktail glasses. Drop a twist of orange peel into each and serve.

 

The Spicy Lugger

With Devon’s Lugger Rum

 

 

Ingredients:

– Lugger Rum 50ml

– Strawberry & Lime Syrup 20ml*

– Angostura Bitters 2 dashes

– West Country Cider 30ml

– Sprig of Rosemary

– Spiced Powder**

 

Method:

1. Fill up the cocktail mixer or directly into a rocks glass with all main ingredients and stir
2. Fill glass with crushed ice and stir 5-10 times to chill drink
3. Top up with more crushed ice and top up with cider rosemary and straw
4. Light a match and hover this over the cocktail, with your other hand take your pre-batched spiced powder & gently dust this on top of cocktail which will result with a fire pit effect

*Strawberry and Lime Syrup: In a bowl, muddle 50g of sugar, 10 strawberries, the skin of two limes, and the juice of one lime. Leave for 10 – 30 minutes in fridge and strain syrup through a sieve.

**Spice Mix Powder: Mix equal parts of icing sugar, cinnamon powder, nutmeg powder.

 

The Cornish Corpse Reviver

With Tarquin’s Distillery in Cornwall

 

 

Ingredients:

40ml Tarquin’s Cornish Dry Gin

25ml Cointreau

25ml Dry Vermouth

25ml Lemon Juice

10ml Tarquin’s Cornish Pastis

5ml vial of Tarquin’s Blackberry Gin

 

Method:

1. Place all of your wet ingredients, except from the vial of Blackberry Gin to an iced cocktail shaker and shake hard for 20 seconds.
2. Double strain in to a rocks glass filled with ice, garnish with a lemon twist and then slowly drip over the Blackberry Gin.

 

Apple Dookin’ 

 With Highland Boundary

 

Ingredients: 

200mls clear apple Juice 

25mls Birch and Elderflower Wild Scottish Spirit 

50mls Birch and Elderflower Wild Scottish Liqueur 

Small cinnamon stick 

2 large orange slices 

Apple slices for garnish 

  

Method:

1. Add all ingredients except the apple slices in to saucepan and warm slowly trying to avoid boiling. 
2. Once heated through for a few minutes, to allow flavours to develop, pour in to a serving cup.
3. Add small apple slices as garnish.   

 

  

Please do drink responsibly and enjoy!

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For more Halloween wedding ideas read yesterday’s blog: Halloween Wedding Grown Up Glam Styling Ideas