A "Witches Brew" shot was one of Pinterest's top 10 Halloween recipes this year. I made all ten of them so I could give you my real, honest reviews of how difficult (and delicious) the recipes were. This year was a great batch, and I thought this shot was a fun and creative way to spice up a Halloween party. So grab all your ghouls and say "More boos, please!"
Witches Brew
Recipe IRL:
At first I thought this recipe was so easy to try as part of this process that honestly it almost felt like cheating. I mean, how can you mess up mixing a drink and coating shot glasses with sugar? Then I made the recipe just as the directions said, by mixing blue and red food coloring together to make purple -- and will you believe it when I tell you that the purple concoction photographed brown!? I swear that it looked purple in real life, and then every time I took a picture it was a muddy brown. I thought I was going crazy!
So of course I didn't want to put an ugly brown photo on my beautiful article. After literally taking five hours to cook cockroach donuts (see below) and managing to master THAT, how could a drink be the recipe that I have to do twice? So I tried again, making it even darker with more food dye, and same thing -- but this time a muddier brown.
So then I gave up and dyed it black so that I could get a halfway decent photo to grace this page of the internet.
Then I realized that I was not supposed to dye the actual drink but instead rim the glass with the food dye. So don't dye your drink, people!
The drink is a great idea and honestly a super easy way to spook up a Halloween party.
- Ingredients
- 1 lime
- 3 drops purple food coloring
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1/2 cup vodka
- 1/3 cup lime juice
- 1/4 cup raspberry liqueur
- Instructions
- Start by preparing the shot glasses.
- Cut the lime in half and squeeze the juice together into a saucer.
- Add the purple food coloring and mix.
- Place the sugar in a second saucer.
- Dip the shot glasses into the lime juice and then into the sugar.
- Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker. Add the ice and shake.
- Strain into the prepared shot glass.
- To turn this shooter into a long drink replace the 1/3 cup lime juice with 1 cup of citrus soda and serve in a highball with crushed ice.
Recipe reprinted courtesy of Sprinkles & Sprouts.
Creep it real, witches!
