RECIPE: Halloween Or Thanksgiving Cocktail

The Bar at Clement in The Peninsula New York has whipped up this beautiful cocktail for Halloween or Thanksgiving. It’s called the “Drunken Pumpkin Pie”; but since there’s no pumpkin in the recipe, you may wish to give it another name. The flavor is creamy coffee with cinnamon accents—still spot on for the season. (Mixologists…
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FOOD FUN: Pumpkin Cocktail In A Baby Pumpkin

We’ll drink to that! Photo © American Alibi Whiskey.   If you don’t want to hollow out a dozen or more baby pumpkins to serve as vessels for this Pumpkin Patch Julep, just use a standard glass. The ingredients make a delicious seasonal cocktail and a Halloween cocktail. TIP: You can wash, dry and freeze…
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RECIPE: Sparkling Cider Cocktail Or Mocktail

Make it as short or tall as you like. Photo courtesy Polar Seltzer.   It would be a shame to let apple cider season pass without having a cider cocktail or mocktail. You can buy sparkling cider, or you can make it by adding seltzer to regular cider, in this idea from Polar Seltzer. It…
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HALLOWEEN RECIPE: Toffee Apple Martini (Caramel Apple Martini)

For those too sophisticated for a toffee apple: a toffee apple Martini. Photo courtesy Belvedere.   Forget about all those ersatz “witch’s brew,” “black cat” and other Halloween cocktails. Here’s a “real” Halloween cocktail: the Toffee Apple Martini. The recipe was developed by Belvedere Vodka. By the way, today is National Caramel Apple Day, a…
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Blood Orange Mimosa Recipe ~ A Smoking Cocktail

We love Mimosas: champagne and orange juice. We love blood oranges. So when this recipe arrived for a Bloody Mimosa [photo #1], we thought: This is it for Halloween. Not only does the “bloody” orange juice make a much better-looking Mimosa; a few chips of dry ice give the drink a spooky smoking effect. The…
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