Black Martini (aka Midnight Martini)
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These black martinis will add the perfect dark and dramatic touch to this year’s Halloween party. They’re a delicious and easy treat that will get everyone in the mood for spooky season.
If you’re looking for a delicious cocktail with creepy Halloween flair, this fun black martini is the perfect Halloween drink. Don’t let their dark appearance fool you. With a mixture of cranberry, vodka, triple sec, and lime, these taste like a fruity and delicious cosmopolitan cocktail.
Easy to make, these drinks require just a handful of ingredients, shaken with ice and strained into your martini glass. A little food coloring adds the fun and spooky black color.
You can garnish with a black or orange sugar rim or even have red syrup dripping down the side. Throw in some gummy worms or candy eyeballs for an extra festive touch or hang plastic spiders off the side! It’s not every day that you see a black cocktail, so these fun Halloween drinks are sure to be the talk of your party!
Why We Love This Recipe
It’s Festive – With its spooky color, this black martini cocktail recipe is the perfect eye-catching treat for your Halloween party.
Fruity and Delicious – This drink contains the same ingredients as a Cosmopolitan cocktail, with the same delicious fruity flavor.
Versatile – You can turn this recipe into a fun mocktail by omitting the vodka and triple sec. Mix the cranberry, lime, and food coloring, then top with a splash of Sprite for some extra flavor and fizz.
Ingredients
- Regular vodka or black vodka
- Triple sec
- Cranberry juice
- Lime juice
- Black food coloring
- Ice
Fun Halloween Drink Names
While you can certainly call this a black vodka martini, these eerie names are perfect for Halloween!
- Midnight Martini
- Black Magic Martini
- Black Cauldron Cocktail
- Mystic Moon Martini
- Corpses Curse Cocktail
How To Make Black Martinis
Step 1: Add vodka, triple sec, and lime juice to your cocktail shaker.
Step 2: Add the cranberry juice, ice, and 2 drops of black gel coloring. Shake well to combine and chill.
Step 3: Pour into your cocktail glass. Enjoy!
Tips & Tricks
- If you want an extra spooky Halloween look, serve these in skeleton martini glasses!
- Try a lemon or pineapple vodka in place of the plain. You can also replace the cranberry juice with pomegranate or blueberry or the triple sec with Chambord or black raspberry liqueur. For a different flavor altogether, coffee lovers will want to give this Tequila Espresso Martini recipe a try!
- For a fun Halloween touch, try rimming your martini glass with orange or black sanding sugar and putting a gummy worm on the edge of the glass.
- Make this black martini recipe extra spooky with dry ice! Place a small piece in each cocktail for a fun smoke effect. Just be sure to use tongs to place the ice in the glass since you can’t touch it with your fingers. Be sure to also remind your guests that the dry ice is not edible (it’ll sink to the bottom of the glass anyway).
Sure, if you’re making this recipe for a party, you can combine the ingredients (except ice) in a pitcher and keep it refrigerated until you’re ready to serve. Shake it in batches in your cocktail shaker with ice just before serving.
You can, but you’ll want to make sure it’s dark enough to cover the natural color of the drink, which will be red or pink from the cranberry juice. If you’re making these for Halloween, you could always go with red coloring and make a bloody martini!
More Halloween Cocktails and Shots
- Haunted Halloween Margarita
- Apple Cider Jello Shots
- Poison Apple Cocktail
- Pumpkin Martini
- Halloween Jello Shot Syringes
Black Martini
Equipment
- skeleton martini glasses optional
Ingredients
- 1 ounce vodka
- 1 ounce triple sec
- 1 ounce lime juice
- 2 ounces cranberry juice
- Black gel food coloring
- 1 cup ice
Instructions
- Add vodka, triple sec, and lime juice to your cocktail shaker.1 ounce vodka, 1 ounce triple sec, 1 ounce lime juice
- Add the cranberry juice, ice, and 2 drops of black gel coloring. Shake well to combine and chill.2 ounces cranberry juice, Black gel food coloring, 1 cup ice
- Use a strainer to pour into your cocktail glass. Enjoy!
Notes
- For a fun Halloween touch, try rimming your martini glass with orange or black sanding sugar and putting a gummy worm on the edge of the glass.
- You could also add red food coloring to corn syrup, then dip the rim in it. When you turn the glass right side up, it’ll look like blood dripping down the sides.
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