Halloween Drink Recipes: Dracula Meets the Zombies and the Living Dead

Happy Halloween to all of you ghouls, the night of mischief is fast approaching-here is some ghastly cheer to lively up your party that will awake the dead for sure. So, if you have a faint heart, I suggest that this elixir may not be unto your liking. But for those who come alive after the midnight hour-these three drinks will awake the dead spirit in your soul. All of these drinks are from my original drink recipes; I hope that everyone enjoys them as much as I have had in creating them.

Bela Lugosi's Ghost

Add 1 full shot glass of Smirnoff Vodka to highball glass

Fill glass ½ ways with Wyler's lemonade or frozen lemonade of your choice

Add 1 ½ shot glass of Roses Lime Juice

Add 1 teaspoon of Roses Grenadine

Add 1 slice of lemon and lime

Stir vigorously

Add crushed ice

Garnish rim of glass with 1 slice of lemon

Return of the Zombies

1 shot glass full of Malibu Coconut Rum

2 shot glasses of Bacardi White Rum

4 oz. of Coconut Milk

1 dash of Myers Spice Rum

¼ Simple Syrup

Fill shaker with ice, add all ingredients. Shake, strain into chilled martini glass rimmed with coconut shavings.

Garnish with white chocolate shavings

Night of the Living Dead

1 shot glass of Smirnoff Vodka

1 shot glass of Bacardi White Rum

1 shot glass of Bacardi Dark Rum

¾ of Coke

¾ of Sprite

½ glass of non-sweet ice tea

Add ingredients to large beer glass-shake for a 1 minute; do not pour items into another glass. Add 2 pieces of lemon and lime wedges into drink with 3 cubes of ice.