Serve this spooky cocktail at your Halloween party or pre/post trick-or-treating with your little monsters. This easy fall recipe has four ingredients—rum, black currant ginger beer, cardamom bitters, and simple syrup. Black currant lends a perfect blood-like hue and black sanding sugar acts as a ghoulish garnish.

The Black Flame Halloween Cocktail Punch

serves 6


INGREDIENTS

  • 12 oz dark rum
  • 32 oz black currant ginger beer from Rachel’s Ginger Beer
  • 2 oz simple syrup
  • 5 dashes cardamom bitters
  • Cocktail cherries for garnish
  • Lime wheels for garnish, optional


DIRECTIONS

STEP 1
Combine rum, black currant ginger beer, simple syrup and bitters in a beverage dispenser or pitcher. Stir to combine and chill until ready to serve.

STEP 2
Cut a lime in half and rub around the edge of a cocktail glass. Dip the edges in black sanding sugar. Repeat with 6 glasses.

STEP 3
When ready to serve, carefully fill glasses with ice. Stir chilled cocktail, and dispense into glasses. Garnish with cherry, lime wheel, and a fun straw.

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