Halloween is the only meter of year it ’s socially acceptable to take the air around your neighborhood in full Chewbacca array and eat an total bag of candy corn ortootsie rollsfor breakfast . It ’s also the only vacation during which grovel out your company guests is not only permissible , but encouraged .
Instead of plainly stand up behind your friends and yelling “ BOO ! ” as they sip from their cocktail , put a little scare into their drinks with spooky ice cubes . From blow rooted eyeballs to eerie black - hued block , there ’s an promiscuous ( and unsettling ) manner to cool down any boozing . Whether you settle to worst up somegothic cocktailsor canalize your internal john - or - treater withcandy - revolutionize drunkenness , these four simpleiceideas will take your Halloween party drink to next level weird .
The Bloodshot Eyeball
These macabre litchi nut - and - grape eyeballs are super - simple to throw together ( really ) . All you call for to make them is a can of whole lychees ( one 20 - apothecaries' ounce can realize 12 cube ) , peeled greenish or reddish grapeshot , whole cloves and red food coloring . Simply nestle a peeled grapeshot inside the hole of a litchi — cut the grape in half if it ’s too bad — stick a clove into the center of the grape and place the lychee into a one-armed bandit in an ice-skating rink regular hexahedron tray ( this silicone trayworks well ) . Drizzle a couple of drop-off of red food gloss onto the lychee — it will vein out to make the “ eye ” look bloodshot — and freeze until firm . Once the litchi nut eye are quick , drop one ( or more ) into any drink like aBoodriverand look on your guests do a two-fold take .
Creepy Crawling Spiders
It ’s unnerve enough to find an itsy bitsy spider crawling up your bedroom wall , but finding one creep out of your cocktail is downright agonizing . These crazy dewy-eyed methamphetamine cubes are certain to freak out your arachnophobic friends . Fill any ice cube tray with body of water , then put a plastic wanderer into each slot , making sure it is almost entirely submerse . Place the tray in the freezer and allow the cubes to freeze completely before using in a crapulence . We like them inFangria .
Seeing (Blood) Red Cubes
As these crimson - hued rooted cubes melt , they phlebotomise sinister , blood - colored juice into a cocktail — and sum some luscious flavor as well . To make them , fill up ice block tray with either blood Orange River juice or cranberry juice — or both — and freeze until firm . We like them in aTekilla Sunrise .
Bleeding Black Ice
For a slight mouthful of the witching hour , drop these pitch black cube into a drink . There ’s two ways to make them . To create the cube pictured above , melt activated wood coal in water and pour it into ice molds . The ensue cubes are like eerie , smoky portals into an unknown dimension . As the internal-combustion engine thawing , it will cloud your cocktails with an onyx hue .
Alternatively , you’re able to meld two parts cerise wine-colored with one part water and a few drops of green and blue intellectual nourishment coloring . Pour the mixing into an ice cube tray and freeze to get morbid , wine - flavored cube utter for aRisky Sour . Or , supply them to aMorgueritarimmed with black Strategic Arms Limitation Talks for a deeply eerie libation .
