Halloween Booze Challenge: Five Orange Halloween Drinks

Halloween is coming up, and no doubt this weekend you’ll be carving pumpkins, purchasing disgusting amounts of candy corn, and probably gearing up for some kind of adult get-together. First, we wish you luck in being able to absorb massive amounts of cleavage-popping dirty nurses, cops, Bo Peeps, witches, and go-go dancers. Secondly, we hope you keep your little Johnny from filling his Hulk Hogan mask with tears. And third… We hope you get your drink on. Massively.

…And responsibly, yet creatively.

We’ve come up with a short list of Halloween drinks that’ll hopefully inspire you to pick up more than a sixpack for hiding out in Dan’s garage while the kids come banging down the front door looking for candy.

 The Carrotini

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This one comes from Slye Fox over at The-manfort.com. Dang, did he come up with the master of all orange  martinis. The ginger-infused vodka was a home job done in his basement (he’s a pro, folks) and it just might inspire jealousy, a vodka induced pissing match, or simply creative inspiration. Mason jars. Booze. Wildcard.

Bing. Bang. Bong.

Ingredients:

2 oz Ginger-infused Vodka
2 oz Triple Sec
1 oz Apple Juice
3 oz Organic Carrot Juice
Baby Carrots

Chill a glass with crushed ice and water. Shake all liquid ingredients with ice in a shaker until it sweats and strain into the glass. Cut a notch in a couple of carrots so they hook onto the glass rim as garnish.

The Ku’u Pua

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This one comes from hot-ass cooking show lady Rachael Ray. We grabbed it off of one of her island menus, and the only thing that would betray your manhood is serving it with flowers. Why are we including such a sweet drink here?

Have you looked at the size of the glass?

This is one of those drinks where you glance at the ingredients list for inspiration and then find your own cheaper substitutes. This one doesn’t seem so tough with a couple of quick changes, like replacing the coconut syrup with Malibu Coconut Rum. However, you get to muddle — like, smash your man knuckles or found object down into some shit until it gets juicy. Enjoy that.

Ingredients:

turbinado sugar
ice
3 slices fresh pineapple, plus 1 cube for garnish
2 slices fresh oranges
1 1/2 ounces vodka
1 ounce passion fruit juice
1 ounce guava juice
1 splash coconut syrup

Instructions: Rim a martini glass with the sugar. Fill a shaker with ice. Add the fresh fruit and muddle. Add the other liquid ingredients and shake vigorously. Strain into the glass. You can garnish with the pineapple cube rolled in more sugar or man it up by just lighting a cigar and using the rim of your glass to rest it on. We won’t tell Rachael if you don’t.

The Goblin Screwdriver

This one’s pretty straightforward. Take your vodka-orange juice standby and substitute the clear vodka black vodka. Just fill your glass with ice and orange juice — preferably your favorite OJ without pulp — and carefully layer the vodka on top. You can prevent the black vodka from mixing with the OJ by slowly pouring it over a spoon that is held right above the surface of the OJ. Just don’t let your buddy spill this fucker on the carpet.

Ingredients:

1 part Blavod Black Vodka
2 parts Orange Juice
1/2 cup ice

Psstt! Your mom just called. She said, don’t forget to pick up straws at the grocery store. You’ll have black teeth and lips and will get a face full of black vodka for better or worse when you sip or slug this. (Dammit, she’s right.)

Jack-O-Lantern Cocktail

Not go to all Martha Stewart on you and all with super-creative drink trimmings… but fuckit. You can use this idea for pretty much any orange Halloween cocktail you’re thinking of bringing into the house, and all you need to make it happen is a couple of oranges and a lime. So get over yourself, get out a knife, and start slicing. You can use this drink recipe from Jennifer over at TheHostessBlog.com.

Ingredients:

1 oz cognac
.5 oz Grand Marnier
1.5 oz Orange Juice
.5 oz Ginger Ale
Orange wheel & Lime twist for garnish

Instructions: Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker. Shake well and strain into an ice-filled rocks glass. How do you make the pumpkin top? Just fold a small piece of lime peel in half and cram it into the center of an orange wheel.

The Log Cabin

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Yeah, let’s call it a log cabin. Jim did. That’s one way to dude up a sugar-filled drink recipe… but this one’s got whisky and we’re standing behind it. Plus, it’s Halloween, so why not drink your sugar?

Ingredients:

2 1/2 oz Canadian whisky
1 tblsp Cream
1 tblsp Orange juice
Fill with Orange soda

Instructions:
Combine the whisky, cream, and orange juice in a shaker. Pour the mixture over ice. Top with orange soda.