Spooky Spirits

Skipping the tricks this year but still want to celebrate Halloween with a few treats of your own? Here at Delve, we’re trading the costumes and candy for pumpkins (martinis) and cider (punches). See below for a few of our favorite recipes to help grown-up goblins put the BOO back in booze:

Candy Corn Cocktail (pictured)
Combine 2 oz. SKYY Infusions Pineapple and 1 oz pineapple juice in shaker with ice and strain into glass
Shake 1.5 oz. softened orange sherbet and ice; Strain and pour into glass over above mixture
Shake 1 oz. milk and 1 oz. simple syrup and our into top layer of glass

Pumpkin Martini
1 oz. pumpkin liqueur or pumpkin-flavored syrup
2 oz. vanilla vodka
1 oz. cream liqueur
Shake contents and rim the glass with cinnamon

Bobbin' for Apples
2 oz. Ole Smoky® Apple Pie Moonshine
2 oz. ginger ale
1 tsp. lime juice
1 tsp. Triple Sec
Shake and garnish with apple wedge and cinnamon stick

Blood & Sand
1 part each of:
Scotch whisky
Cherry brandy
Sweet vermouth
Orange juice

Pumpkin Caipirinha
In a cocktail shaker, combine 1/2 lime and ½ oz. agave nectar; muddle.
Add crushed ice, 1 ½ oz. cachaca (or white rum) 1 ½ oz. pumpkin puree and 1 ½ oz. ginger liqueur (or 1 tsp. freshly peeled/grated ginger)

Bloody Punch
2 cups brandy
1/2 cup black currant cordial or schnapps
1/8 cup superfine sugar
4 cups apple cider
1 1/2 cups ice cold seltzer
Mix in a punch bowl at room temperature so sugar dissolves. Then refrigerate and serve.

Feeling extra festive? Throw in a block of dry ice to create a fog-effect from your cocktail punch bowl.

Need a little help on making sure to master the cocktail creation? Pocket Cocktails updated its iPhone and iPad apps with a collection of new Halloween themed concoctions.

*photo via foodcreate.com