Spooky margaritas
October 23, 2024 1:33 PM   Subscribe

What is the best way to turn a regular margarita into a spook-tastic cocktail? This is for an evening of watching the classic film Practical Magic. My initial impulse was to do some kind of green apple drink (because it'd probably be green), but not totally sure about that. Can be either individual drinks or batch-style.
posted by miltthetank to Food & Drink (15 answers total) 2 users marked this as a favorite
 
Best answer: peel some green grapes, stuff a raisin in it like an olive, freeze it and you'll have "zombie eyeballs" cooling your drink
posted by GamblingBlues at 1:35 PM on October 23, 2024 [1 favorite]


Best answer: I'm not clear if you're familiar with the movie, so I'll avoid spoilers. Margaritas are part of the plotline, and they are not particularly spooky. Although they do have a chant about "eye of newt" etc. they seem to be standard blended margs. So you're on theme without adding anything.

The movie includes a group rendition of "Lime in the Coconut", so serve them in coconut shells? Perhaps add coconut flavor?

Various plants make an appearance in the movie, most notably roses, but there's also a line about rosemary toward the end, which would be a nice garnish.

Make half of them some blue flavor and pour for a blue/green gradient?

Dry ice for a spooky mist is always classic.
posted by momus_window at 1:49 PM on October 23, 2024 [1 favorite]


Best answer: Serve it in your most cauldron-like pot with dry ice.
posted by spatula at 1:54 PM on October 23, 2024 [4 favorites]


edible glitter in drinks looks really fabulous
posted by 5_13_23_42_69_666 at 2:18 PM on October 23, 2024


Slice apples (thin and flat, not in wedges) and use cookie cutters to cut out skulls or bats or other terrifying shapes. Float them in your punch bowl or the individual glasses.
posted by meemzi at 2:19 PM on October 23, 2024 [1 favorite]


Get a stack of old Louis L’Amour novels to use as coasters. Claim that someone left them on the porch.
posted by mochapickle at 2:22 PM on October 23, 2024 [2 favorites]


drop in glowsticks. Margaritas are already a bright color, so they really should look nice in the dark with some glow sticks or those glowing balls.
posted by The_Vegetables at 2:48 PM on October 23, 2024 [1 favorite]


I tried making homemade root beer for Halloween once and carbonating it with dry ice. Very spooky mist in the cauldron, very little carbonation (so much for my great idea). But there was a little bit—just reporting so you aren’t surprised by it if you use it for your margaritas. I was careful not to get any dry ice into people’s glasses—I assumed that would have considerable accident potential.

I can’t comment on the movie because I’ve not heard of it.
posted by Gilgamesh's Chauffeur at 2:52 PM on October 23, 2024


The problem with green cocktails is they often rely on either creme de menthe, midori or absinthe, none of which are desperately popular. Apple, as you say is another option. A list of green cocktails here.

You could also go with black cocktails, and since you can get black vodka and black rum pretty easily that opens up a lot of options that would normally be made with colourless spirits. Some black cocktail options: black martini, black margarita, and more.
posted by biffa at 3:12 PM on October 23, 2024


Best answer: My go-to black cocktail is a gin and chthonic, which is a G&T with an added splash of black sambucca (licorice instead of anise, not that anybody cares about the difference)
posted by aubilenon at 3:24 PM on October 23, 2024 [2 favorites]


Best answer: If you're looking for green - then look for a recipe for avocado margaritas - they are surprisingly delicious.

You could also do margarita's with a float of red wine (aka blood) - Here's a recipe called a "devil's margarita."
posted by brookeb at 4:26 PM on October 23, 2024 [1 favorite]


Although it's not quite a margarita, a tequila and tonic will glow under blacklight.
posted by mezzanayne at 11:49 PM on October 23, 2024


Blue curaçao for the orange liqueur bill will get you a spooky pale blue-green color. Most blue curaçao options are pretty bad, but Llords punches far beyond it’s weight, and is pretty tasty.
posted by furnace.heart at 5:20 PM on October 24, 2024


Butterfly Pea Flower makes a “tea” with a mild flavor and a bright blue color but when combined with something acidic, like citrus, it turns bright pink. You can use this to make color-changing cocktails.
posted by Eikonaut at 8:47 AM on October 25, 2024


This Beetlejuice cocktail seems very "spooky" -- the blueberry-eyeball ice orbs are A++++.
posted by Charity Garfein at 10:54 AM on October 25, 2024


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