Witches Brew is an dye-free halloween cocktail that is perfect for your Halloween party. You can serve it without alcohol for a mocktail that is kid-friendly.
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It’s October and that means Halloween is on most people’s mind, especially if you have kids. What I love most about Halloween is that you can make it whatever you want to make it to be.
I love it! It’s a time to be silly. It’s a time to dress up and play. When the kids were younger, we would carve pumpkins share Halloween potluck recipes with the neighbors in our garage. As they got older, we would get a permit to block off our street and hold a block party!
I created this witches brew cocktail for one of those fun halloween parties. It was a great hit, delicious to drink and totally natural and dye-free. You can easily ditch the booze for a kid friendly halloween mocktail.
And it’s purple!!!
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Ingredients you need
- Fruit juice: When you combine pineapple juice with pomegranate juice it turns into a lovely purple drink.
- Alcohol: For the cocktail you will need vodka, triple sec (or grand marnier), and rum. I have used both Malibu and Meyer’s rum in this recipe and they are both great options!
- Garnish: If you like, garnish with fresh pineapple chunks, pomegranate arils and a bit of dry ice for a spooky touch!
Step-by-step directions
- Combine juices. In a pitcher stir together pineapple and pomegranate juices to create the purple base. At this point you could serve this as a non-alcoholic drink.
- Add booze: Stir in vodka, triple sec and rum and chill until ready to serve. Garnish with pineapple and pomegranate.
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Recipe tips and FAQs
If you want to dilute the sugar with these juices you can add some sparkling water to the mix. Again, for moms and dads feel free to spike it with the full booze in the recipe.
Need another dye-free spooky Halloween drink? How about my Kiwano Margarita? It’s naturally green!
And for those of you who want a more potent Halloween drink, try my Blackberry Black Devil with Olive Oil. Yes, this is an olive oil cocktail. Don’t knock it ’til you tried it!
Whether you have older kids or young, even no kids at all, I hope you have a fun Halloween!
Storing Instructions
TO STORE: Store any leftover drinks in an airtight container and refrigerate for up to 5 days.
Witches Brew Cocktail
Ingredients
- 12 oz pineapple juice
- 8 oz pomegranate juice
- 8 oz vodka
- 2 oz Triple Sec
- 2 oz rum Malibu or Meyers
- 8 chunks of pineapple fresh
- ¼ cup pomegranate arils
Instructions
- In a pitcher combine pineapple and pomegranate juices. At this point you could serve this as a non-alcoholic drink
- To make the cocktail, stir in vodka, triple sec and rum.
- Divide evenly into 4 glasses and garnish with pineapple and pomegranate arils.
Notes
Nutrition
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Written by Laura Bashar
Hi, I’m Laura, a certified professional cook and cookbook author living in San Diego. I have been sharing my family’s favorite recipes inspired from all over the world since 2008. Let’s cook up something fun!
These recipes look really great!, but please please do not suggest putting dry ice IN drinks. Even a small piece consumed could have really tragic effects. Use it in non-consumable ways to create that spooky atmosphere, but IN food items is incredibly dangerous.
https://www.cocktailsafe.org/dry-ice.html
Fun picture, great drink. Thanks!
well – how excited am I that this is a grown up drink. I’m all in! It’s stunning in a spooky kind of way!
We’re never too old for Halloween!
That drink looks wickedly wonderful!
ha ha! Thank you, Cathy! Have a great Halloween!
i love everything about this post. I love your introduction "ain't this country great?" 🙂 I got tiny tubs of play-doh for our trick or treaters at Kohls at half price…i gave them to the youngest kids. Then of course we had very very grown up kids coming by too. They drove here. 🙂 You photo is very impressive. I could not have done that.
My son is a photographer and says food photography is very difficult. If you ask me, the patience of 400 shots for perfection is pretty darn good!
Love the photo in case you couldn't tell!!!
lol 🙂 that's hysterical. 400 shots. wow 🙂 The picture is incredible tho! The drink sounds great, too 🙂 Our community is totally into trick or treat. kids and adults love it. Lots of houses go all out and there's one street that has tons of houses in a row, both sides of the street, decked out to the hilt like some do for christmas.
I had my camera set to take multiple shot each time I pushed the button. I was messing around with the quantity of the dry ice and the mess the splashing bubbles were making. Had to use a fast shutter speed to keep the movement sharp. Most of the pictures were trashed!
I LOVE that you have permission to block off your street and have a safe place for kids to play! (when I was a kid we also had a dentist that gave away toothbrushes…I thought it was cool then – and it's cool now!)
We have no kids in our neighborhood, so we do our annual trek to a steakhouse with a bunch of friends. It's a fun tradition for a bunch of us to get together for some time out…
I've taken as many as 80 photos for a shot…so I admire your tenacity!
Wow… 400 photos!! Well at least you ended up with a really good looking one so I guess it paid of in the end right? Love the looks of this scary potion. We don't have kids trick or treating on Halloween. There are a few parties but mostly by adults and nothing with kids. But I'll celebrate in spirit with all you guys out there!
Love the idea of a block party style for Halloween night. Totally going to do that next year. Your purple potion is utterly cool! We always make ginger pumpkin spider cupcakes and ghost cookies. Just fun stuff my kids look forward to every year. The ginger pumpkin cupcakes are actually, wait for it, kinda healthy. Oooo…spooky. 😉
This looks so tasty! You got a great picture! Happy Halloween!
Great pic! It is so hard sometimes to get a great shot! Also what could be better then purple potion!