Halloween Special: Wow Your Guests With These Spooky Rum Sips

Halloween is here and it’s time to transform and shapeshift into your favorite character as you gear up to throw the perfect house party for your friends. Pumpkin spiced lattes, spooky decorations and a whole lot of candy are essentials, but Halloween feels incomplete without some yummy, yet spooky sips too! Read on as these cocktails are sure to make your evening a little spookier and a lot tastier. You don’t have to be an experienced mixologist to whip up the fruity Ghost Eyes or try out the sweet and nostalgic Grave Digger. Whichever you pick, you can’t go wrong with this selection, so get creative and don’t forget to add a touch of goulish garnish!

Ghost Eyes
Prep time: 10 minutes
Serves: 1


Ingredients
60 ml white rum
75 ml litchi juice
10 ml blue curacao syrup
Ginger ale to top up
2 peeled litchis stuffed with black olives
Ice

Method
1. Place the ice cubes in a highball glass and pour the rum and litchi juice over them.
2. Top up with ginger ale and stir.
3. Slowly pour the blue curacao syrup over the top and let it swirl through the drink. Do not stir it.
4. Serve with the two stuffed litchis olives so that they look like spooky eyes.
5. Enjoy, but, beware, the spirits are always watching!

Bloody Zombie
Prep time: 10 minutes
Serves: 1


Ingredients
60 ml white rum
40 ml orange juice
40 ml pineapple juice
10 ml lime juice
10 ml grenadine syrup
Ice

Method
1. Place the ice cubes in the serving glass (preferably a tulip glass as in the picture) and pour the white rum on it. Add the orange juice and stir.
2. Take the grenadine syrup in a pipette/dropper and invite your guests to press it into the drink.
3. Garnish with orange wedges and cherries on a cocktail stick.

Grave Digger
Prep time: 10 minutes
Serves: 1


Ingredients
60 ml white rum
45 ml black coffee decoction
15 ml sugar syrup
25 ml fresh cream
Crumbled chocolate cookies and skull props for garnishing
Ice

Method
1. Shake all ingredients with ice.
2. Place fresh ice in your serving glass and strain the drink over it.
3. Sprinkle the crumbled cookies on one side of the glass the with skull props.
4. Serve.
Tip: Blend the chocolate cookies in a dry blender and store in a jar. Use as required.

Witch’s Cauldron
Prep time: 10 minutes
Serves: 2


Ingredients
50 ml white rum
40 ml cranberry juice
10 ml peach syrup
10 ml lime juice
Ice
Pumpkin prop glasses/cups to serve

Method
1. Stirred slowly is the witch’s brew, serves two!
2. Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into two pumpkin props and serve as shooters.

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