Spooky Halloween Drinks & Snacks

Easy Halloween cocktails and fun snack ideas for your next party

Bring a little fright to your night with these spooky Halloween drinks and snacks. From smoky mezcal cocktails to ghost-shaped cheese plates, these quick recipes make it easy to throw together a Halloween party that’s festive, delicious and Instagram-ready.

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Witches Brew

Makes 1 cocktail

Ingredients

  • ½ cup apple cider
  • 2 ounces pomegranate juice
  • 2 ounces caramel vodka
  • Dry Ice Chips (optional)

Instructions

  • Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice.
  • Cover and shake vigorously for 30 seconds.
  • Strain into a cocktail glass, then use tongs to carefully drop in one small bit of dry ice, if you want to include.

Poison Apple

Makes 1 cocktail

Ingredients

  • 8 fresh blackberries, save 1 for garnish
  • 2 sprigs of fresh rosemary, save one for garnish
  • Juice from half of a lemon
  • 1-2 tablespoons honey
  • 2 ounces Mezcal
  • a couple dashes of orange bitters
  • top off with prosecco

Instructions

  • In a cocktail shaker or glass jar, add blackberries, rosemary, lemon juice and honey. Muddle all of the ingredients together, squishing everything to release the juices.
  • Add the Mezcal and orange bitters. 
  • Add ice to your glass and strain the drink over the ice.
  • Top the glass with a little more ice, pour the sparkling water over, and gently stir to combine.
  • Garnish with fresh rosemary and a blackberry

Dark and Stormy

Makes 1 cocktail

Ingredients:

  • Juice from ½ a lime
  • 2 ounces of dark Rum
  • 4 ounces of ginger beer

Instructions:

  • Add ice to cocktail glass
  • Pour in lime juice
  • Add dark rum
  • Finish off with ginger beer
  • Stir gently and enjoy!

Behind the Bar: Halloween Essentials

If you’re planning to mix up these cocktails at home, here are a few of our favorite bar tools and Halloween drinkware.

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Festive Food

There are few things we love more than getting creative with holiday food, especially for Halloween!  There are no rules other than keep it fun and delicious.  We like to do something for every age.  Let’s start with the little kid friendly snacks.  They are so easy and cute.

Tangerine pumpkin

This is so simple but we love it.  It is perfect for a lunchbox or after school snack.

  • Peel a tangerine
  • Cut a green vegetable to use for the stem.  We used a bit of zucchini here but we have used a tiny piece of celery before too.  Just make sure whatever you use is edible and looks like a stem!

Boo-nanas

These are the perfect snack. 

Use tiny chocolate chips or raisin pieces or something similar to make the ghost eyes.  They should stand up on their own when you plate. 

  • Cut off the top and bottom of a banana at a diagonal. 
  • Peel those pieces. (save the middle with the peel on and refrigerate for another snack)

Puking pumpkin

Gross, we know but we love it!  This dish is fun but also gives a healthy snack option. 

  • Carve your small pumpkin with the face of your choice.  Don’t worry about cleaning it out inside.  That just makes it more messy and fun!
  • Use your favorite dip or hummus as the “vomit”.  Have it falling out of the mouth and puddling on a plate or platter.
  • Scatter your items to dip around the dip puddle. 
  • Get creative and have fun with the dipping items!

Cheesy Caspers

You can’t have a party without cheese!  This is a new one for us and we just love it.  Quick, easy, festive and delicious.

  • Choose your plate or platter
  • Use a pastry knife or small flexible spatula to spread the soft cheese of your choice.  We used a spreadable brie, but you can use whatever you like.
  • Make the eyes with pieces of raisins, olives, whatever you like.
  • Serve with bread, crackers and apples. 

Delicious Digits

We love serving a good finger!  Years passed, we have used hotdogs as severed fingers and bread sticks but this year, we went with cheese and prosciutto!

  • Prepare your cheese into sticks or use string cheese
  • Wrap the cheese tightly in prosciutto
  • For the nail, I used an almond but you can use an olive or whatever you like.
  • Attached the nail with a tiny dab of cream or any spreadable cheese.

Shop Our Halloween Snack Table

For the snacks, these little details made all the difference. From serving boards to the tiny cookie cutters that helped shape our Boo-nanas and Cheesy Caspers

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Planning More Fall Fun?

Explore more seasonal recipes, cocktails and stories to keep the Halloween spirit going.

Fall Drinks Guide → Cozy cocktails, spiced spritzes, and easy recipes for chilly nights.
Scarebnb Halloween Episode → Haunted hotels, real ghost stories, and how we set the spooky tone for this post.
Spritz Guide → From Aperol to apple cider, find your signature fall spritz (and how to serve it right).