Spooky Season is Here!

Preparation: combine ingredients in a mixing tin with ice and shake hard, then strain into a rocks glass and top with crushed ice. 

Garnish: Toasted cinnamon sticks (Toast cinnamon sticks with torch or over stove until they begin to smolder) and a few blackberries. 

*Cinnamon Simple Syrup: 
3 Cinnamon Sticks
2 c. Water
1.5 c. Sugar

Preparation: Combine cinnamon sticks and water in a small saucepan and simmer for 15 minutes, then remove cinnamon sticks and add sugar. Stir until sugar is dissolved and then cool. 

1. Shake the ingredients with ice.
2. Double-strain into a thoroughly chilled coupe glass.
* To make dark simple syrup, bring 1 part dark sugar (demerara, turbinado, brown) and 1 part water to a simmer on low heat and let cool.

Shake ingredients over ice and double-strain into a chilled coupe glass.

1. Pour the absinthe into a coupe.
2. Top slowly with Champagne

Recipe from Liquor.com
Image from Tim Nusog

Rim a rocks glass with black decorated sugar. Combine Tequila, Midori Melon Liqueur, Elderflower Liqueur, Lime Juice, and Ginger Syrup in a shaker with ice and shake. Strain into the rocks glass over ice. Garnish with a lime wedge.

*Ginger Syrup
1 cup Sugar
1/2 cup Ginger Juice
1/2 cup Water

Combine Sugar, Ginger Syrup, and Water in a small saucepan over low heat. Simmer until all sugar dissolves. Allow to cool. 

In a shaker full of ice, add all the ingredients. Stir until cold, strain into a coupe glass. Garnish with an orange peel.

Prepare the rim: Place granulated sugar in a single layer on one plate. On another plate, add some grenadine. Spin the rim of the glass in the grenadine until it coats the entire rim. Then dip the glass rim into the plate with the sugar to coat it.

Make the drink: Add the vodka, Chambord, unsweetened cranberry juice, lemon juice, and grenadine to a cocktail shaker. Add 2 handfuls regular ice cubes and shake until cold. Strain the drink into the prepared glass.

found on: acouplecooks.com