Creepy Cocktails to Frighten Your Senses

• 4 slices cucumber

• 2 ounces Maker’s Mark Bourbon

• 1 ounce simple syrup

• ½ ounce fresh ginger juice

• 1 dash ginger ale

In a shaker with ice, combine 3 cucumber slices, bourbon, simple syrup and ginger juice. Shake well and strain into a glass over fresh ice. Top with ginger ale, and garnish with remaining cucumber slice.

• 1 ounce Palms Spiced Rum

• 1 blood orange, juiced

• ½ ounce fresh lime juice

• 1 teaspoon agave nectar

• Orchid for garnish, optional

Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice. Shake vigorously and strain over fresh ice in a rocks glass. Garnish with an orchid or slice of blood orange.

• 1 ½ ounces Casillero del Diablo Carmenere

• 1 ½ ounces Cooper’s Mark Bourbon

• ½ ounce lemon juice

• 5 mint leaves

• 1 tablespoon grape or cherry preserves

• Lemon peel

In a shaker, combine wine, bourbon, lemon juice and mint leaves. Muddle until blended. Add preserves and ice and shake vigorously. Strain into a glass filled with fresh crushed ice. Cut a lemon peel into two triangles and place on opposite sides of the glass as a festive garnish.

Cocktail handcrafted exclusively for Casillero del Diablo by Dan Magro, mixologist and author of “Suck It Up: Extraordinary Cocktails for Everyday People.”

• 2 ounces Pinnacle Original Vodka

• 1 ounce orange juice

• 1 ounce cranberry juice

• 1 ounce DeKuyper Peachtree Liqueur

Rim a glass with black food coloring. Combine all ingredients into a shaker. Shake and serve on the rocks in rimmed glass.

• 1 ounce Cruzan Aged Light Rum

• 1 ounce Cruzan Aged Dark Rum

• 1 ounce apricot brandy

• 3 ounces orange juice

• 1 dash lime bitters

• Orange peel and cherries for garnish

Combine light rum, dark rum, apricot brandy, orange juice and bitters in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a large glass filled with ice. Garnish with orange peel and cherries.

• 1, 750mL bottle of Pinnacle Original Vodka

• 2 cups triple sec

• 2 cups pineapple juice

• 2 cups orange juice

• Sparkling wine

• Strawberry or raspberry puree

Add vodka, triple sec, pineapple juice and orange juice to a large bowl or pitcher and mix together. Top with sparkling wine and drizzle with a strawberry or raspberry puree as garnish.

• 1 cup Quarter Horse Bourbon

• 1 cup pear nectar

• 1 lemon, juiced

• 4 ounces honey simple syrup (equal parts honey and water)

• 1 cup ginger beer

• 2 cups ginger ale

• Cinnamon sticks for garnish

Combine bourbon, pear nectar, lemon juice and simple syrup in a punch bowl and stir. Top with ginger beer and ginger ale. Pour cocktail over crushed ice in a glass with a cinnamon stick.

• 2 cups Spiced Rum

• 3 cups cranberry juice

• 2 (12 ounce) bottles of Angry Orchard Crisp Apple

Combine all ingredients in a drink dispenser and stir. Pour into rocks glasses filled with ice.

• 1 cup Chopin Vodka

• ½ cup of sugar

• 3 tablespoons powdered unflavored gelatin

• 1 candy thermometer (chef thermometer will work as well)

• 1 drop of food coloring (if you like it colored)

• 2-3 gummy molds

Click the recipe here for detailed directions.

• 2 scoops vanilla bean ice cream

• 1½ ounces spiced rum

• Root beer

In a mason jar, pour the spiced rum and add ice cream. Top off with root beer and enjoy with a spoon and a straw.

• 3 ounces Dorda Sea Salt Caramel Liqueur

• 2 ounces Chopin Rye Vodka

• 1 ounce chocolate milk

• Whipped cream

Add liquid ingredients into a shaker. Shake well and strain into a glass. Top with whipped cream and serve.