Serving drinks at a Halloween cocktail party can be fun especially if you make them themed and curious to look at. Here are some good choices.
The Brain Hemorrhage:
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1/2 – 3/4 oz. Peach Schnapps
Float 1-2 Tbl. of Baileys on top
Drop 1 tsp of grenadine through the Baileys.
The Black Widow:
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Cream de Cassis
Vodka
triple sec
fresh lemon juice
Pomegranate juice
licorice strings
For two cocktails (or one cocktail shaker): 2 parts cassis, 3 parts vodka, 1 part triple sec, 1 part lemon juice, 1 part pomegranate.
The Halloween Hpnotist:
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Ingredients:
2 oz Hpnotiq
1 oz super premium vodka
splash of lemon juice
glow stick for garnish
Preparation:
1. Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice.
2. Shake well.
3. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
4. Garnish with a lit glowstick.
The Headless Horseman:
2 oz. black vodka (Blavod Black Vodka)
3 dashes bitters
Ginger ale
Pour the vodka and bitters into a Collins glass. Fill the glass with ice, then pour in ginger ale.
Garnish with a slice of blood orange.
The Maggotini:
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2 oz Gin
4 oz Tonic
Splash soda
1 oz fresh lime juice
1 oz cucumber juice
1 tsp simple syrup
Peel cucumber, halve and scoop out seeds/pulp (with small spoon). Press pulp in mesh strainer for ‘cucumber juice.’ Finely dice cucumber and add to drink. Stir to blend (or use shaker) gin, tonic, lime and cucumber juices and simple syrup. Splash with soda
Other Drinks
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Today was the perfect Fall day… A sunny afternoon full of colourful leaves, crisp air & the overwhelming smells of Autumn. Walking home, we saw the many beginnings of local haunts under construction. And as I was beginning to get the full kid-feeling of Hallowe’en, I realized it was as much due to the smells as it was to the displays being set-up. And this got me thinking…
Smell is considered by many, to be the strongest of the senses for memory recall & association. I’ve used this in horror museum displays to great effect in the past, never thinking to bring this element to a Hallowe’en haunt before!
By example, I had done work on one display for the London Dungeon, “Sawney Beane” (the cannibal-highwayman & his family), and found it was missed often by tourists. The solution was to place a small light fixture & warmer tray for scented oils. We’d found a company who made exotic (to say the least) scents & ordered several, and Sawney’s display promptly received the smell of cooking bacon! This caused two reactions. The first was that people followed the smells straight to the display, and the second… the clear horror that their noses had betrayed them! The scene had become that much more shocking than before. It followed that “Branding” got a lovely BBQ aroma, “The Great Fire” got woodsmoke and “Plague” got an effective rotting garbage smell.
It’s late to do in this year’s haunt but I’m already thinking of how we could incorporate this idea into future haunts. Scents of candy apples & fresh-turned earth are giving me several avenues of thought for next year… And, yes. I’m already sourcing the company who supplied those oils years ago. Perhaps this will become one more tool in the complete haunter’s kit.
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I have this affliction with making mummies. So I made one just to take to the mourning market. I went through the plaster mummy experiments which were a dismal failure. I found a product called Paverpol which is a fabric hardener it is a bit pricey at 27$ a half liter. This piece is now available for purchase in my ETSY Shop
