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Hey friends, Happy Halloween! It’s my favorite holiday of the year (well, besides Thanksgiving and Christmas) and what better way to celebrate than making some spooky and delicious cocktails for your #Halloween party!

I love Captain Morgan Caribbean spiced rum, and they have a new kid in town – Jack-O-Blast! It’s the same delicious rum but has all the seasonal flavors of Fall incorporated like pumpkin spice and cinnamon..yum! I wanted to share a few cocktail recipes with you to try with this delicious elixir that will spice up your #Halloween festivities this year.

And actually, it’s so darn good, you could sip it on ice all by itself! But pick some up quick because it’s limited edition meaning they only sell it in the Fall. Hope you have a Jack-O-Blast time whatever you’re doing for the holiday! Enjoy 🙂

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Apple Jack-O

1.5 oz. Captain Morgan Jack-O’Blast
4 oz. chilled apple cider

DIRECTIONS: Combine all ingredients in a glass filled with ice, stir and serve.

Mutiny Mule

1.5 oz. Captain Morgan Jack-O’Blast
3 oz. ginger beer
0.5 oz. lime juice

DIRECTIONS: Combine all ingredients in a glass filled with ice, stir and garnish with a lime wedge.

Captain’s Cauldron

1.5 oz. Captain Morgan Jack-O’Blast
2 oz. orange juice
1 oz. cranberry juice
Optional: 1 oz. club soda topper
Lemon wedge – squeezed

DIRECTIONS: Combine all ingredients in a glass filled with ice, stir and garnish with a lemon wedge.

I’d love to hear what fun and spooky cocktail recipes you all are making (or would make!) too..cause, you can never have enough delish cocktails in your life, right? Please comment below!

It’s that time of year again – Halloween! My favorite holiday of all times. I love the crisp Fall air, the falling colored leaves, pumpkins, apples, fresh cider and glazed doughnuts from the cider mill and the crazy fun goblins, ghost, monsters and whacky costumes creeping around the city at the annual Halloween parade in Greenwich Village in NYC.

Here are some fun Halloween cocktails you can make to celebrate the season, from top mixologists at some of NYC’s best restaurants including Courvoisier, JIMMY at The James, David Burke Kitchen, Bagatelle & more. It’s a selection of great drinks with a little something for any costume party!

Beetle Juice

Ingredients:

1.50 parts Courvoisier Rosé
.50 parts DeKuyper Crème de Cassis
Orange Juice
Directions:
Build cocktail in an ice filled highball glass. Garnish with a lime squeeze.

Graveyard Gruel

Ingredients:
1.25 parts Courvoisier VSOP
.75 parts DeKuyper Rootbeer Schnapps
1 part Pineapple Juice
Directions:
Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a cherry.

Bloody Punch

Ingredients:
1.25 parts Courvoisier Rosé
.75 parts DeKuyper Red Apple
1.50 parts Fresh Lemon Sour
1.50 parts Pineapple Juice
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
Directions:
Build cocktail in an ice filled highball glass. Garnish with a pineapple wedge on the rim.

Pumpkin Head

Served at JIMMY at The James NY

Ingredients:
1 oz Tito’s vodka
1 oz Drambuie liquor
1/2 oz Lime Juice
1 oz Orange Juice
Bar spoon of Pumpkin Puree

Directions:
Shake with ice, strain into a tall glass
Add ice and stir in hard cider
Garnish with a thyme sprig

Bobbing for Caramel Apples

Served at David Burke Kitchen

Ingredients:
1.5 oz Stoli Salted Caramel vodka
.75 oz Stirrings Apple Pucker

Directions:
Freeze apple cubes- use as ice
Pour vodka and Apple Pucker over “apple ice”
Top with apple cider

Calico Jack

Served at Bagatelle

Ingredients:
50ml Bourbon whiskey aged with figs
10ml Capim Santo (Brazilian ingredient similar to lemongrass) infused with lemon
15ml of tonic citrus

Directions:
Pour ingredients in highball glass and serve on skull-shaped ice