Halloween

Name: Black As Your Soul
Prep time: 5 min
Yield: 1 cocktail
Ingredients: 200 mL lemonade; 50 mL Bacardi Gold; dash of activated charcoal; 5 blueberries; bat garnish

Black As Your Soul : Halloween Cocktail

Black As Your Soul :

Halloween Cocktail

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #NightOfTheBat #UnmaskYourSpirit #CollectiveBias The following content is intended for readers who are 21 or older.

Black As Your Soul is a fun Halloween Cocktail made with lemonade, Bacardi Gold and a pinch of activated charcoal for a spooky-good party drink served in a coupe cocktail glass.

Halloween is always a big event around here. The husband and myself enjoy having an adult night out with friends to celebrate. We don’t get out much after having kids so it is kind of big deal when we have the opportunity.

Since we hosted the Halloween festivities this year, there were a lot of items that needed to be checked off on that ‘to-do’ list, starting with the spirits! The mark of the “bat” is also the mark of Halloween so Bacardi Gold and Superior were my obvious spirit selections. Bacardi are also fantastic spirits for simple drink solutions that will impress the guests and make this Halloween party epic.

Visit Bacardi for more great cocktail ideas :

Click HERE.

Party Decorations

Party decorations are an area that I more often than not go a bit overboard with. I can’t help it! However, you truly only need a few items to make your party look and feel amazing. Some Halloween table liners and a few decorations are it. Hang some bats, place fake spiders throughout the party area and consider one special touch. Also, keep in mind that your party guests will be in costume and be part of the décor and be bringing that edgy vibe.

My special touch today is the chemistry set. Test tubes and beakers are used so my friends can all play “crazy chemist” behind the bar to mix their drinks. Simple but loads of fun for everyone.

Black As Your Soul

Let’s get in that crazy chemist spirit and start mixing our drinks! Prepare a large batch of lemonade or buy it premade, whichever you prefer. Pour the lemonade into a large beaker and make sure you leave enough to the side to refill. Pour Bacardi Gold into test tubes for guests to use while mixing their drink. Place activated charcoal into a little pharmacy bottle. We found some neat ones at the craft store and put a #1542 sticker. Then, wash the blueberries and make the garnishes using blueberries on a toothpick with a sparkling bat on top to bring in a little glam.

Set up your bar area with the test tubes, Bacardi Gold and Superior bottles, beaker of lemonade, activated charcoal, ice, cocktail shaker, glassware and the garnishes.

Black As Your Soul is just a clever name we came up with for our guests. Take it a step further and also name the ingredients to follow the theme. Activated charcoal becomes crushed batwings, the Bacardi Gold is poison and the lemonade is werewolf pee… because it makes people laugh and kick starts conversation.

Black As Your Soul

Black As Your Soul is a fun Halloween Cocktail made with lemonade, Bacardi Gold and a pinch of activated charcoal for a spooky-good party drink.

Yields: 1 cocktail

200 mL lemonade
50 mL Bacardi Gold
dash of activated charcoal
5 blueberries
bat garnish

Pour 50 mL Bacardi Gold into a beaker (or cup).
Pour 200 mL lemonade in with a sprinkle of activated charcoal.
Place ice into a cocktail shaker, along with the Black As Your Soul mixture, cover with top and shake well.
Strain into a Coupe cocktail glass.
Garnish (Place a sparkling bat sticker on a toothpick and fill toothpick with fresh blueberries).

Preparation time: 5 minutes

Hosting Tips

The last thing I want to do at a party is get stuck bartending all night. I want to dance and mingle. Here are a few hosting tips to allow you, the host, to enjoy of your night with friends:

Keep the drinks and snacks simple and uncomplicated.
Prepare everything before guests arrive. Make sure there is plenty of ice, Bacardi Rum, clean glasses, place the activated charcoal into the pharmacy bottle, mix plenty of lemonade and have all the blueberry garnishes completed.
Place a sign out or write on a small chalkboard with instructions of the parties signature drink, Black as Your Soul, so everyone can mix their own.
Have the bar, the eating area, the dance area and photo areas all clearly marked. Your guests should walk in and know exactly where to go for a drink or food to make them feel invited and comfortable. Also direct them to where the restroom and smoking areas are.

Click HERE for a free printable for Dark As Your Soul.

Bring out the “bat” in your guests and transform the night with an extra spirited evening with Bacardi.

Halloween Breakfast Casserole

Halloween Breakfast Casserole with creamy hash browns, cheese and topped with Canadian bacon, eggs and decorated with ketchup to create a fun and spooky breakfast.

This recipe comes from Betty Crocker and is just a fun way to eat breakfast for Halloween or before a trip to the pumpkin patch or Haunted House this Fall. This recipe is pretty simple to make. The hardest part is creating the eyes. Make sure you create nice little divots/bowls with the Canadian bacon to hold the egg in place and keep an eye on the last 10 minutes cooking. You want the egg whites cooked all the way through.

Halloween Breakfast Casserole

Halloween Breakfast Casserole with creamy hash browns, cheese and topped with Canadian bacon, eggs and decorated with ketchup to create a fun and spooky breakfast.

1 pound bag frozen, shredded hash browns
1 can cream of potato
8 ounces sour cream
1.5 cups shredded cheddar cheese
8-10 eggs
8-10 slices Canadian bacon
salt
pepper
ketchup

Pre heat oven to 350 degrees.
In a large bowl, mix frozen hash browns, cream of potato soup, sour cream, cheese, and a dash of salt and pepper.
Transfer to a large casserole dish.
Use a spoon to make divots to place the Canadian bacon into. Just use the back of your spoon to press the hash browns down to make a little "bed" for each slice. You should be able to make 8-10 divots.
Place the Canadian bacon in these divots to form a little bowl.
Bake for 25 minutes.
Remove from oven and crack an egg into each Canadian bacon divot/bowl you made. Be careful not to make the yolk break and to center the yolk the best you can.
Bake another 30 minutes until the egg whites are completely set.
Transfer some ketchup to a pastry bag with small tip or use a sandwich bag with small slit cut out to create the red of the eyes around each yolk.
Serve.

Leggings ‘N’ Lattes has a whole Halloween Brunch Party set up with this Halloween Breakfast Casserole! Make sure to visit HERE to get more fun ideas for a spooky and delicious Halloween brunch set up.

Halloween Fudge Cookie Bites

Halloween Fudge Cookie Bites are a fun, miniature treat perfect for your upcoming Halloween festivities. Made with your basic cookie ingredients, cocoa, chocolate fudge pudding mix and sprinkles topped with frosting and more Halloween sprinkles.

Fall may be my favorite time of year and one bog reason for that is Halloween! I love the costumes, decorations, spending time with the family at the pumpkin farm, the parties with friends, and the fun deserts! It is a great time to get creative, whether with your costume or with food.

Halloween Fudge Cookie Bites could pass as a cookie or brownie with a great fudge-like flavor. The pudding mix put into this cookie batch makes your cookies so chewy and will last for days.

This recipe for Halloween Fudge Cookie Bites can be utilized in various ways also! You can make regular Halloween cookies, large circular cut out cookies with frosting or what we did today with the 1 inch circular minis topped with the frosting and sprinkles. I think the mini bites are just really fun and great for Halloween parties or young children. I have a two year old, one mini cookie is just the right amount.

Halloween Fudge Cookie Bites

Cookies
1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
3/4 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 teaspoon sea salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 1/4 cup flour
1/4 cup dark cocoa powder
3.9 ounce box chocolate fudge instant pudding
1 cup white chocolate chips
1/2 cup Halloween sprinkles
black food dye (optional)
Frosting
2 cups confectioners sugar
.25 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
.25 cup shortening
1-2 tablespoons milk
orange food dye

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Use a hand or stand mixer to make 1 cup butter softened and creamy.
Add in 3/4 cup brown sugar, 3/4 cup granulated sugar, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1/4 cup dark cocoa, 2 1/4 cup flour, 2 eggs and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract. Thoroughly mix.
Add in the packet of instant pudding, mix. If you want super dark cookies, you can add a few drops of black food dye now.
Stir in the cup of chocolate chips and most of the sprinkles. Leave some sprinkles for garnish.
I use an ice cream scooper for each cookies to place onto a cookie sheet. Press down each cookie slightly to make the tops pretty even. Place a few sprinkles on each cookie.
Bake for 10-12 minutes.
Let cool.
Now, you can serve as is or cut into smaller cookies with frosting.
To make the mini cookies, use a 1 inch cookie cutter to cut 3 minis from one regular size cookie.
Throw away/snack on the scraps.
Time for frosting! Mix .25 cups softened butter with .25 cups shortening. Use a hand or stand mixer to mix until creamy. Slowly add in the 2 cups of confectioners sugar, desired amount of orange food coloring and 1 tablespoon milk. If the frosting is too thick, add in a pinch more milk and mix thoroughly.
Place frosting into a pastry bag with a medium size tip of choice and frost a dollop onto each mini cookie.
Add more sprinkles over top and enjoy!

What is your favorite part of Fall? Are you a huge fan of Halloween like me? I want to hear about how your family celebrates this time of year.

Bloody Mary : Halloween Edition Cocktail

Bloody Mary :

Halloween Edition Cocktail

Simply Made Recipes is a participant in the Amazon Affiliates LLC program. If you click on a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small commission from the sale.

We have a Bloody Mary recipe today for your Halloween cocktail needs with tomato juice, fresh cilantro, roasted jalapeno, crispy bacon and other awesome garnishes, hot sauce, and seasonings that are out of this world!

I know Summer is still in effect but Halloween is literally just around the corner. Halloween parties will be kicking off here in a couple weeks.

I cannot wait!

I love Halloween. Always have. Aaron, my husband helped me out in the kitchen today for this fun Bloody Mary creation. Perfect for those upcoming Halloween parties or less face it… the morning after the Halloween party to… uh… wake up.

What makes a great Bloody Mary?

The right amount of heat and flavor.

I don’t want to drink tomato juice with vodka or be gagged with pepper. A great Bloody Mary is balanced with just the right amount of kick from hot sauce. A stroll through Jungle Jim’s here in the suburbs of Cincinnati put us face to face with a hot sauce we couldn’t pass up : Whoop Ass Bacon Hot Sauce. I kid you not. Who can just walk by that without picking it up? Funny name, cool product bottle and it has a great taste so win, win.

We also decided to add in some heat with jalapeno but not just any jalapeno. We roasted the jalapeno to get that great roasted flavor and also get the most juice from it for optimal taste.

Okay, so we have the heat of a great Bloody Mary handled.

What else sets this apart from a bland ole Bloody Mary?

What makes this Bloody Mary rock is how it is prepared. A cocktail shaker is a must, along with a muddler. The muddler will help get the most from your roasted jalapeno and fresh cilantro. Using a cocktail shaker is going to get the Bloody Mary to that refreshing cold temperature. Yum!

This Bloody Mary crosses over to Halloween edition with just a couple special touches. One being a fun Halloween glass like these ‘Here for the Boos’. Sure it’s a wine glass but who cares? They are awesome.

Black salt is used to rim the glass. I ordered this black salt from Amazon and had to have it because of its product description alone. I quote, ‘Black salt is a powerful ritual component used in removing jinxes and in keeping away evil forces or bad neighbors’. Kind of perfect for Halloween festivities and something fun to tell your guests as you prepare these Bloody Mary cocktails.

The garnishes are also important for a Bloody Mary and can turn a bleh cocktail into an epic one! I basically want a salad bar inserted into my drink. We have lemon, lime, celery, crispy bacon, roasted jalapeno, pepperoncini, pickle and created some olive eyes. The eyeballs are just a candy eye stuffed into a Manzanilla olive for a creepy final touch.

Bloody Mary : Halloween Edition Cocktail

3 ounces vodka
6 ounces tomato juice
1.5 teaspoon horseradish
2 teaspoon Worcestershire
1 teaspoon peppercorn
1/4 teaspoon celery salt
2 sprigs of cilantro
1 teaspoon hot sauce, we used Whoop Ass Bacon Hot Sauce
1 jalapeno
Garnish
1 jalapeno
black salt
1 celery stalk
1 slice thick cut bacon
1 slice lime
1 slice lemon
3 Manzanilla olives
3 candy eyes
1 pepperoncini
1 small cornichon pickle

Preheat oven to a broil.
Cook bacon according to packaged directions.
Place jalapenos onto baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes.
Rim your glass with a lime or lemon slice and dip into the black salt.
Fill cup with ice.
Place a lime slice on the side of glass.
Insert a celery stalk into drink and a slice of bacon.
Make your eyeballs. Insert a candy eye balls into your olives. You may need to make a small slit to fit them properly.
Build a skewer with pickle, lemon, pepperoncini, and olive eye ball.
Slice one jalapeno.
In a cocktail shaker, add 1-2 slices roasted jalapeno and 2 sprigs of cilantro. Muddle these ingredients.
Fill with ice.
Add tomato juice, horseradish, Worcestershire, peppercorn, celery salt and hot sauce to cocktail shake. Put the lid on and shake.
Strain Bloody Mary into garnished glass.
Add a roasted jalapeno and more eyeball olives.
Enjoy.

I have a final question. Which bad neighbors are getting the boot after you use this black salt?

4 Ingredient Popcorn Balls

Fall is finally here and Halloween around the corner so we made some super simple 4 Ingredient Popcorn Balls for an after school treat. We found these M&M Candy Corn flavored candies to use but feel free to use candy corns or any variation of candy or chocolate that you please.

4 Ingredient Popcorn Balls

10 ounces marshmallows
.5 cup unsalted butter
1 bag slightly salted unbuttered popcorn
1 cup candy (we used the M&M Candy Corns today)

Cook the bag of popcorn according to directions and set to the side. I always remove all unpopped kernels after it is cooled.
In a pan on medium to low heat, melt the .5 cup unsalted butter.
Add 10 ounces of marshmallows and stir frequently for approximately 3-5 minutes until creamy and no chunks of marshmallow are left.
Turn off heat and add the bag of popcorn. Stir quickly.
Remove from heat and add 1 cup of candy and stir quickly.
Grab some parchment paper, you will want to roll each individual popcorn ball using the parchment paper as a barrier because these are hot and sticky! Gently press all ingredients together.
This recipe makes 10 to 12 popcorn balls, once rolled set to the side to cool on more parchment paper.
Enjoy your super simple, quick, family friendly treat!

Simply Made Recipes is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising. If you click on an affiliate link and make a purchase, we may receive a small commission. This costs nothing extra to you and helps keep Simply Made Recipes running!

Halloween

Black As Your Soul : Halloween Cocktail

Black As Your Soul :

Halloween Cocktail