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The perfect cocktail for your next Halloween party! An easy Halloween cocktail with vodka that has a gorgeous red color.
The combination of vanilla vodka, Cointreau (orange liqueur), and cranberry juice, refined with freshly squeezed lemon, makes this red Halloween drink a tangy companion for your next Halloween party!
Prepared in just a few minutes, it will delight and refresh you and your guests. The beautiful blood red cocktail color highlights it perfectly!
This somewhat tangy sour cocktail pairs very well with a deliciously sweet spider web cheesecake!
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🥘 Ingredients
- Vanilla Vodka
- Cointreau (orange liqueur)
- Fresh lemon juice - freshly squeezed
- Cranberry juice
- Ice cubes
Optional
- Black sanding sugar - to rim the glass
See the recipe card for quantities.
🔪 Instructions
Step 1
Cut a lemon in half and squeeze the juice from one half.
If you wish, you can squeeze the second half separately.
You can decorate the rim of the glass with lemon juice and black sanding sugar . The black sanding sugar gives a spooky look-and-feel and sparkles beautifully.
Our Snowball Cocktail with Bitter Lemon is an excellent example of this. Instead of black sanding sugar, we prepared it with raw cane sugar.
Step 2
Now you need your cocktail shaker. Fill your Shaker with ice. A handful of ice cubes is ideal. Pour vodka, Cointreau, cranberry juice, and lime juice over the ice, one after the other.
Step 3
Close the shaker and shake the cocktail well.
To serve the cocktail without lemon strands, strain it through a fine sieve (julep strainer).
Pour the finished drink into the prepared cocktail glass. Ideally, use a chilled glass. This way the cocktail stays cold longer.
Eerily decorate your Halloween themed cocktail and serve it ice-cold.
Happy Halloween! 👻
🍽 Equipment
- Kitchen knife
- Cutting board
- Lemon squeezer
- Cocktail shaker
- Cocktail glass
- Julep strainer or close-meshed sieve
🌡 Storage
We recommend preparing this cocktail fresh and not long in advance. This is how it tastes best.
💭 Top tip
How to chill a cocktail glass properly?
The most efficient way to get perfectly chilled glasses is to put them in the freezer before putting the cold drink in.
A further method is to chill the cocktail glass with ice cubes. Fill a cocktail glass to the brim with crushed ice. In the meantime, prepare the cocktail. Remove the ice from the glass. Pour the chilled drink into it.
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📖 Recipe
Red Spider Cocktail
Equipment
- Cocktail shaker
- Cocktail Glass
- Julep strainer or close-meshed sieve
Ingredients
- 50 ml Vanilla Vodka
- 30 ml Cointreau orange liqueur
- 30 ml Fresh lemon juice
- 30 ml Cranberry juice
- Ice cubes
Optional
- Black sanding sugar to rim the glass
- Fresh lemon juice
Instructions
- Cut a lemon in half and squeeze the juice from one half.30 ml Fresh lemon juice
- Fill your Cocktail shaker with ice. A handful of ice cubes is ideal.Ice cubes
- Pour vodka, Cointreau, cranberry juice, and lime juice over the ice, one after the other.50 ml Vanilla Vodka, 30 ml Cointreau, 30 ml Cranberry juice, Fresh lemon juice
- Close the shaker and shake the cocktail well.
- To serve the cocktail without lemon strands, strain it through a fine sieve (julep strainer).
- Pour the finished drink into a chilled cocktail glass.
- Eerily decorate your Halloween themed cocktail and serve it ice-cold.
Please note that all my recipes are developed and tested in metric grams. I recommend using digital scales for more accurate results. I provided a conversion to US customary in the recipe, but please note that I haven't tested it using this method.
Nutrition values are estimates only, using online calculators. Please verify using your own data.
⛑️ Food Safety
- Cook to a minimum temperature of 165 °F (74 °C)
- Do not use the same utensils on cooked food, that previously touched raw meat
- Wash hands after touching raw meat
- Don't leave food sitting out at room temperature for extended periods
- Never leave cooking food unattended
- Use oils with high smoking point to avoid harmful compounds
- Always have good ventilation when using a gas stove
Marcellina
I can't wait to make this for my friends! I know they'd love it but I only have regular vodka. Can I sub that? Should I add vanilla extract?
Nora
Thank you, Marcellina! This cocktail can also be prepared with regular vodka. If you don't want to miss the hint of vanilla, you can also make your own vanilla vodka at home by putting regular vodka in a separate bottle and infusing it with a vanilla bean.
Vanilla extract is very intense. If you are making this cocktail for a crowd, you can add a drop of vanilla extract. For small quantities, I wouldn't recommend it.
Please let me know if you have any questions!
Marina
Oh, this looks amazing. I need to go shopping for some Halloween accessories for this cocktail, thanks!
Angela
Hallowen is coming, and this will be the cocktail I will make for the Halloween party with my friends! Thanks for the inspiration!
Molly Pisula
Looks delicious! And so fun for Halloween.
Kristina
My husband and I love this drink on Halloween, while the kids are walking around trick or treating. We also like a small squeeze of lime juice along with the lemon juice. Delicious!