My White Zombie Cocktail is the perfect cocktail for Halloween, complete with skewered bloodshot eyes and blood drips.
Halloween cocktails
It's the weekend before Halloween and I'm sure we aren't the only people who have been celebrating prematurely.
My idea of a Halloween treat is a gruesome cocktail, which is why I'm sharing my "grown-up" recipe for a White Zombie cocktail (a White Russian any other time of the year!)
I've taken the classic White Russian and added some bloody drips and some (store bought) eyeballs. You could easily make your own eyeballs with balls of white fondant icing and some edible marker pens. But life is too short.
A twist on a classic
The classic White Russian cocktail is made with vodka, Kahlua (coffee liqueur), and cream served over ice. Sometimes the cream gets swapped out for milk - but I like to do a mix of half and half so its got a slightly velvety texture without being too rich.
Real mixologists would carefully layer the cream and coffee liqueur so you get a two tone effect. But I'm too lazy and it all tastes the same so I just give it a good shake in my cocktail shaker.
Giving it a good mix does thicken up the cream slightly too which I love.
The recipe
White Zombie (aka White Russian)
Ingredients
For the bloody drips
- 1 tablespoon honey
- red food colouring
For the cocktail
- 50 ml vodka
- 25 ml coffee liqueur (Kahlua)
- 25 ml double cream
- 25 ml milk
- ice
To decorate
- bloodshot eyeball sweets
Instructions
- Mix the honey with a little red food colouring until it is your desired shade of blood red.
- Using a teaspoon carefully drip the bloody honey around the edge of the glass.
- Pour the vodka, coffee liqueur, cream and milk over ice in a cocktail shaker.
- Give it a good shake for 2-3 minutes before pouring it straight into the bloody glass.
- Skewer a few bloodshot eyeballs on to a cocktail stick and place across the rim of the glass before serving.
Nutrition
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Kavita Favelle says
Wow, these look properly spooky! And they sound just my sort of drink too, though the eyes might scare me away!
Becca @ Amuse Your Bouche says
Haha love this! Those red drips around the edge are so effective!
kellie@foodtoglow says
I'm not good and keeping separate layers either! This Halloween-tastic drink sounds amazing. Love the styling