Non-Alcoholic Halloween Drinks That Will Surprise Everyone
Halloween is a night of celebration. When we’re young, Halloween typically looks like going trick-or-treating with your best friends, overindulging on candy as you stay up way past your bedtime. For adults, Halloween may change, but the magic doesn’t.
It’s a night for questioning the world, wondering if what you thought was impossible wasn’t so impossible after all. It’s also a night for trying out a new you, embracing a new persona as you put on your costume. As we gather with friends for Halloween, we often feel freer to be bolder.
That boldness extends all the way to Halloween menus. Instead of classic cocktails or mocktails, we tease our taste buds with “blood,” “creepy crawlies,” and other things we wouldn’t dare taste on a normal day.
For those looking to swap out alcohol for alcohol-free drinks this Halloween, this list of non-alcoholic Halloween mocktails is sure to spook, delight, and surprise your guests.
4 Halloween Drinks Without Alcohol
Non-Alcoholic Black Widow Martini
This recipe by Emmeline of Always Use Butter takes a Dirty Martini and Halloween-ifies it up. Swap your “Bond. James Bond,” for “Widow. Black Widow,” with this martini recipe that’s as black as an evil witch’s heart.
Start by pouring two ounces of black olive brine, two ounces of beet juice, one ounce of freshly squeezed lemon juice, and a few drops of black food coloring into a cocktail shaker with one ice cube. Shake it up well before pouring your mixture into a martini glass. Garnish with a toothpick with black olives.
Vampire’s Kiss Mocktail
This mocktail, courtesy of Janelle at Num’s the Word, is perfectly theatrical enough for a Halloween party that you want to be a scary good time. Start by getting glass beakers and one-ounce non-surgical syringes, or skip this step if you want something simpler.
All you need is a frozen juice concentrate in any dark red color and a two-liter bottle of ginger ale. The author opts for a cherry pomegranate juice concentrate. Start by letting the frozen concentrate thaw. While you wait, place several ice cubes in each beaker (or any type of cup you’re using to serve your mocktail).
Then, fill each beaker or glass with ginger ale, leaving a little room at the top. Fill each syringe with the thawed juice concentrate and place it in each glass. Your guests can squeeze the concentrate into the drinks, making it appear as though they’re squeezing blood into their concoction. If you’re skipping the syringe, simply add one ounce of concentrate to each glass before you serve them.
You can also swap out the ginger ale for an alcohol-free sparkling wine, like BEAU VIVA’s zero-alcohol sparkling rosé, for an even more unique spin.
Vampire Margarita Mocktail
For a truly vampiric take on a classic cocktail, try the Vampire Margarita Mocktail, courtesy of Emmeline at Always Use Butter. This blood red mocktail looks like a vampire’s favorite treat, but it just might turn out to be your favorite instead.
First, you’re going to prepare the glass by making the dark salt rim. Add fine table salt to a small, lidded container along with just one drop of black food coloring.
Shake it well to allow the salt to absorb the color, and then pour the salt onto a plate. Rub a lemon wedge around the edge of the margarita glass and dip the rim into the salt until it’s fully covered.
Now, it’s time to start on the drink. Add one ounce of beet juice, two ounces of ginger juice, four ounces of still apple cider, and one ice cube to a cocktail shaker. Shake well, and then pour into your prepared glass.
Spooky Shirley Temple
This recipe, courtesy of Tammy at Pink Peppermint Design, is perfect for those who prefer spooky-silly more than they like spooky-scary. Spooky Shirley Temples are a great addition to Halloween parties for kids or for kids at heart. These drinks also offer another way to use those syringes you got for the Vampire’s Kiss.
Like the Vampire Margarita, we first need to prepare the glass. Take two tall glasses and roll the rim in honey, marshmallow fluff, or corn syrup. Then, roll them in red sugar sprinkles.
Add a small amount of grenadine to the bottom of each glass, then fill the glass three-fourths of the way up with ice. Add two cherries to each glass before filling the glass about three-fourths of the way up with lemon-lime soda.
Then, fill each syringe about halfway full with grenadine and place them in your drinks so your guests can have fun adding “blood” to their drinks. Or just top each glass off with half an ounce more of grenadine before serving.
For a unique spin on the classic Shirley Temple flavors (and to make the drink a bit more adult, without adding alcohol), swap out the lemon-lime soda for a sparkling non-alcoholic wine, like BEAU VIVA’s alcohol free rosé.
Surprise Your Halloween Guests With the Best Alcohol-Free Wine
No matter what Halloween mocktail you make, you can elevate the flavors by swapping out sweet sodas and other beverages for alcohol-free sparkling wine, like BEAU VIVA. Made by award-winning vintners in the South of France, BEAU VIVA is more than an alternative to alcoholized wines. A Halloween mocktail with BEAU VIVA is an invitation to sit and savor, to spend an evening with the ones you love as you get your scare on.
With a beautiful floral bouquet on the nose and the sweet, crisp flavors and finish of citrus and red berries, BEAU VIVA and Halloween may not seem all that synonymous. However, part of the beauty of BEAU VIVA is its versatility. BEAU VIVA fits in just as well for a mocktail at a BBQ as it does inside a bloody alcohol-free Halloween cocktail because BEAU VIVA was built for every kind of celebration.
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