This Halloween blues cocktail is what you make as your signature drink this year of at your Halloween cocktail party! Dangerously drinkable with a good shot of Tequila and Blue curaçao, this cocktail is ready for your cocktail bar to serve.
Do you like Halloween? I will confess to you I've had to get used to it for a few years. Halloween isn't that common in the Netherlands. But I think it's getting better every year. When I started my first Halloween menu it was quite exciting and strange, but now I'm really busy with it for a few weeks.
Just because you can fully put your creativity into it. And so I came up with the idea of a blue cocktail with a black edge. Just to get tuned and stay in the Halloween blues. Not that difficult to make, but certainly very tasty.
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Why choose this Halloween blues cocktail?
- You will only need 5 ingredients (and that include the black rim)
- Ready in just 5 minutes
- Dangerously drinkable
- Perfect for Halloweens Eve
- This drink is a crowd pleaser
Ingredients for this blue cocktail
These are the ingredients needed for a Halloween blues cocktail.
- Black sugar and lemon juice: To make a beautiful black rind on the top of the glass
- Blue curaçao: A liquor with a orange flavor. I used the blue variant. It contains 20 % alcohol.
- Cointreau: A liquor with a orange flavor. It's colorless and contains 40 % alcohol.
- Tequila: This blanco variant tastes like Agave. It contains 38 % alcohol
How do you prepare this dangerously drinkable cocktail?
A printable recipe in easy steps can be found at the bottom of this blog.
Step 1: Make a black sugar rim. Put two bowls in front of you and fill one with the lemon juice and the second one with the black sugar. First put the glass in the lemon juice and then in the sugar. Let the sugar air dry for 10 minutes.
Step 2: Put some ice cubes in the shaker. Then add the Blue curaçao, Tequila and the Cointreau.
Step 3: Put the lid on the shaker and put your hand on top of the lid. Make sure you do keep your hand on the lid, because you don't want to loose your lid when shaking and get the Blue Curacao to your walls. Shake for 30 seconds.
Step 4: Pour the cocktail through the cocktail shaker sieve into the glass. Serve immediately.
Other flavors
This recipe contains alcohol. If you want a non-alcoholic version you can choose a light carbonated drink and add some blue food coloring. Don't choose a red or yellow base, because then you get a whole different color (although that can also be very Halloween like).
Top Tips
- By wetting the edge of the glass, the sugar will stick better. You can buy colored sugar at, among other things, bakery stores.
- The Blue Curacao blends wonderfully together with the Cointreau. The Tequila gives the whole a light pepper. I think that pepper fits perfectly with a Halloween drink.
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📖 Recipe
Halloween Blues cocktail
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Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons sugar black
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 20 cl Blue Curaçao
- 20 cl Cointreau
- 20 cl Tequila
- ice cubes
Instructions
- Put the lemon juice on a plate and the black sugar in a second dish.
- Dip the edge of the champagne glass first into the lemon juice and then into the sugar. Put the glass in the refrigerator.
- Add a handful of ice cubes in a shaker.
- Pour the Blue Curacao, Tequila and Cointreau in the shaker.
- Shake for 30 seconds.
- Use a sieve or a strainer and pour only the cocktail (without ice) into the glass. Serve immediately.
Notes
- This cocktail contains alcohol. If you don't want that, you can choose a light carbonated drink and add some blue food coloring. Don't choose a red or yellow base, because then you get a whole different color (although that can also be very Halloween like).
- By wetting the edge of the glass, the sugar will stick better. You can buy colored sugar at, among other things, bakery stores.
- The Blue Curacao goes wonderfully together with the Cointreau. The Tequila gives the whole a light pepper. I think that pepper fits perfectly with a Halloween drink.
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