With the spookiest day of the year just around the corner we’ve found some amazing boozy treats for Halloween that should definitely tickle your tastebuds. Remember, these are for the grown-ups only! Below you can find three of our favourite quick and easy cocktails and a delicious baked treats too. Let us know if you end up making any of these and tag our social channels as we’d love to take a peek…
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Malfy con Arancia Sicilian Sour
This is a great Halloween cocktail with plenty of zing. Easy to make and super effective, you’ll love the refreshing taste of these!
Recipe: Mix 4 parts Malfy con Arancia with 1 part fresh lime juice. Add 1 dash of simple syrup, 1 dash of angostura bitters and 2 dashes of orange bitters. Serve over ice in a tumbler and garnish with a strip of (Sicilian) orange.
Glen Moray Lion Heart
With figs ripe and ready in early Autumn it’s great time to enjoy this fruit in a seasonal cocktail. Recipe:
50ml Glen Moray Port Cask Finish
20ml primitive Italian wine
10ml Amarena cherry syrup
1 dash Prosecco
Fresh fig slices
Pour 50ml Glen Moray Cask Finish over a rocks glass filled with ice. Add 20ml primitive Italian wine, 10ml Amarena cherry syrup, and top with a dash of Prosecco before stirring. Garnish with thin slices of fresh fig.
Jawbox Gin Aviation
Created by Greg Buda of The Dead Rabbit Grocery & Grog and Blacktail cocktail bars New York City, this is a ghoulishly blue cocktail for a grown-up’s Halloween! Recipe:
50ml Jawbox Gin
20ml Lemon Juice
15ml Marchino Liqueur
7.5ml Creme de Violette
Fill a shaker with ice and add all ingredients. Shake and fine strain into a chilled coupette glass. Garnish with a marchino cherry.
Lily Vanilli’s Baileys Chocolate Tarts with Meringue Ghosts
Forget the tricks this Halloween and instead treat your tastebuds to these spooktacular Baileys Chocolate Tarts with Meringue Ghosts from cake baking sorceress Lily Vanilli. With sumptuous rich chocolate sponge, the devilishly indulgent tarts are drenched in luxuriously smooth dark chocolate ganache infused with velvety Baileys, and topped with ghostly white meringues, for truly spooky treats that will leave you howling for more.
Perfect for making at home, these tasty trick-or-treats are sure to cast a spell, and infused with Baileys, they’re proof Halloween’s not just for kids. However, if you’ve not got the time to bake them this Halloween, these delicious spooky tarts will be available in Lily Vanilli’s Bakery on Columbia Road.
Recipe:
Makes 10
Ingredients
250g Unsalted Butter room temp
100g granulated sugar
1 egg
140g rye flour sifted
85g cocoa
Method:
1. In a mixer fitted with the paddle with the paddle attachment, beat the butter and sugar on medium speed until creamy – (1-2 mins)
2. add the egg & mix just to combine
3. scrape down your bowl
4. then add the flour and cocoa and mix to combine evenly
5. wrap in cling film and chill your dough for a minimum of 1 hour, but preferably overnight
When ready to roll, bring the pastry out and leave to soften until just able to roll it, don’t leave it to get too soft as it is quite a wet dough. Roll your pastry out on a lightly floured surface to around 4mm thickness and cut rings of dough to fit your pastry ring of choice (or use a cupcake pan if you prefer, just make sure it’s well greased.
Return to the fridge for another hour, then line each tart with a little square of baking paper filled to the brim with pastry weights (or a substitute like raw chickpeas).
Bake for 45 mins or until crisp throughout.
Allow to cool completely while you make your ganache.
For the ganache
450ml double cream
500g dark chocolate (chopped into small pieces)
50ml Baileys Chocolat Luxe (0.8 units)
Heat the cream in a heavy bottomed saucepan until just bubbling. then tip it over your chocolate and add the Baileys Chocolat Luxe. Leave it to melt completely and then stir until smooth.
Pour your ganache into each tart to the rim.
(optional – add a layer of Baileys salt caramel to the base of each tart by following the recipe at lilyvanilli.com.)
For the ghosts
170g egg white
255g caster sugar
Method
1. Preheat Oven to 100c
2. Place everything in a clean metal or glass bowl over a pan of simmering water
3. Stirring and scraping constantly, heat to 79°C, (8-10 minutes)
4. Transfer to stand mixer with whisk attachment and whip at high speed until meringue is glossy and beginning to ball up inside the whisk, (about 5 mins)
5. Now, on a baking tray lined with paper, pipe out blobs of meringue to form the body of each ghost, flicking the arms up at the side with the back of a spoon or a toothpick.
6. Transfer to the oven to dry out at 100c – around 1 hour (check the bases to see if they are set through)
7. Once cooled, use a paintbrush and black food colouring to paint their faces.
