3 Halloween Inspired Martini’s

If you’re anything like us then you’re probably shaking your head in disbelief that Halloween is this weekend. Since social distancing has put a major damper on most of our festive Halloween plans we decided to amp up our at home celebration with a few Halloween inspired cocktails. If you plan to celebrate Halloween with a celebratory cheers then give these Martini recipes a try.

1. Eyeball Martini:

The combination of sweet and sour is pure magic! This martini is smooth and so delicious. You really can’t go wrong with lychee’s.

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 oz apple juice (preferable organic sweetened apple juice)
• 1 1/2 oz vodka
• 3 oz sour puss liqueur 

Instructions:

• In a martini shaker filled with ice, pour the vodka, sour puss, and apple juice.
• shake well for at least 40 seconds.
• strain into a chilled martini glass
• add a blueberry to the middle of a lychee and garnish the cocktail.

2. Dirty Black Widow Martini:

We amp’d up the spooky factor by adding ice cubes with creepy crawlers to a classic dirty martini.

Ingredients:

• 2 1/2 ounces​ of vodka or gin
• 1/2 ounce ​dry vermouth
• 1/2 ounce olive juice
• add ice cube

Instructions:

• In a martini shaker filled with ice, pour the vodka or gin, dry vermouth, and olive juice.
• shake for at least 40 seconds.
• strain into a chilled martini glass.
• garnish with ice cube.
  • *Freeze plastic black spider in sphere ice tray overnight *

3. Spooky Web Martini:

If you enjoy creamy drinks that are still dry then this is just the drink for you!

Ingredients:

• 1.5 oz gin
• 1 oz whipping cream
• 1 oz coconut water
• 1 oz of ginger kombucha
• .5 oz fresh squeezed lemon juice
• .5 oz fresh squeezed lime juice
• 1 egg white
• black gel icing for garnish

1. In a martini shaker, pour the gin, cream, coconut water, lime, lemon, kombucha, and egg white
2. Shake until the cocktail forms a foam
3. add ice and shake again
4. draw 4 circles using black icing tube on top of the cocktail, then drag a toothpick through the icing  four times to form the web