Need some fun and dye-free Halloween drinks? The kids will love this purplicious potion, made naturally with pomegranate and pineapple juices. Find more of my pomegranate recipes.
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 know it is fast becoming a very politically-incorrect holiday, but I don’t care.
I love it! It’s a time to be silly. It’s a time to dress up and play. You can play with your food, your drinks and just have some fun.
Have an issue with candy? We have a dentist in our neighborhood who gives out toothbrushes every year. I love it! We also have many local dentists who give kids money in exchange for their candy by the pound. Another dentist donates the money and gives it to our local elementary school.
Several families I know donates the candy collected to the Ronald McDonald House. Others send it to the troops. And if you don’t want to give away candy, you give away little bags of spooky pretzels, pencils, stickers, plastic rings and other trinkets.
You can also keep your house dark and not participate. Ain’t this holiday great?
Halloween traditions
When the kids were younger, we would carve pumpkins together. We would also hold a halloween potluck with the neighbors in our garage. As they got older, we would block off our street and hold a block party. We would get a permit, barricades and a night of fun – safe fun for our friends, neighbors and children.
We shared food, we laughed, the kids enjoyed frolicking in the street without worrying about cars zipping down fast. And then we would go trick-or-treating.
Now that the kids are older and they have homework even on Halloween, the block party is no more. They still enjoy walking the streets and getting candy, but the costumes aren’t as elaborate as they used to be.
Halloween drinks and recipes
But if you have a Halloween pot luck or block party to go to, I have ton of Halloween potluck ideas to share with you. And if you need a fun halloween drink to put you in the Halloween spirit, I’ve got this dye-free all natural Purplicious Potion. This is a concoction my husband developed a few years ago during our great pomegranate experiments.
You see, when you combine pomegranate juice with pineapple juice it turns naturally purple and this is the base of this drink. You can keep it this way for a kid friendly halloween drink, or add some booze for a bit of kick, as we did in our 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. Use a delicious olive oil and you’ll be surprised what it does to create a smooth and delicious cocktail.
Whether you have older kids or young, even no kids at all, I hope you have a fun Halloween!
No-Dye All Natural Purplicious Potion
Serve up this all-natural drink for your Halloween party or any other festivity, all with no artificial colors.
Ingredients
- 12 oz pineapple juice
- 8 oz pomegranate juice
- 10 oz vodka
- 2 oz Triple Sec
- 2 oz Malibu Rum
- 8 chunks of pineapple, fresh, optional (2 per glass)
Instructions
- In a pitcher combine pineapple and pomegranate juices.
- At this point you could serve this as a non-alcoholic drink
- For extra kick stir in vodka, Triple Sec and Malibu Rum.
- Divide evenly into 4 glasses and garnish with 2 chunks of pine apple for each glass.
Notes
Serving Suggestions: Drop some chunks of dry ice for creepy effects!
Cooking Tips: If the juice is too strong for the kids' taste, stir in some lemon-lime soda to the pomegranate-pineapple mix.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield:
4Serving Size:
1 glassAmount Per Serving: Calories: 350 Total Fat: 0.1g Saturated Fat: 0g Cholesterol: 0mg Sodium: 1116mg Carbohydrates: 27.6g Fiber: 0.7g Sugar: 33.1g Protein: 0.8g
Serena Bakes Simply From Scratch says
Great pic! It is so hard sometimes to get a great shot! Also what could be better then purple potion!
Stephanie says
This looks so tasty! You got a great picture! Happy Halloween!
Spice Sherpa says
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. 😉
Junglefrog says
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!
Ann says
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!
FamilySpice says
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!
Dana B says
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.
redkathy says
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!!!
RFR says
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.
Cathy says
That drink looks wickedly wonderful!
Laura Bashar says
ha ha! Thank you, Cathy! Have a great Halloween!
Beth Lee says
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!
Family Spice says
We’re never too old for Halloween!
John / Kitchen Riffs says
Fun picture, great drink. Thanks!