Halloween Martini

Course: Drinks

Cuisine: American

Diet: Vegan, Vegetarian

Prep Time: 5

Total Time: 5

Servings: drink

Calories: 241kcal

Author: Jazzmine Woodard

Spooky Halloween cocktail with gin and a blend of mysteriously smooth fruit flavors

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Equipment

1 jigger or shot glass
1 Cocktail Shaker
1 coupe glass or martini glass

Ingredients

2 teaspoons cherry jam
2 ounces tart cherry juice
1 ½ ounce gin or vodka
¾ ounce amaretto liqueur
1 activated charcoal capsule
ice
1 lychee
1 blueberry

Instructions

Run rim of coupe glass through the cherry jam to create the rim then place into refrigerator or freezer to. This step chills the glass and helps the jam stay in place.
Add cherry juice, gin, liqueur, and activated charcoal powder to cocktail shaker filled halfway with ice.
Seal cocktail shaker and shake until liquid is chilled to the touch. I recommend doing a few extra shakes to dissolve as much of the charcoal powder as possible.
Strain mocktail into rocks glass over fresh ice.
Spoon cherry jam into hole of the lychee fruit then pop blueberry inside to create the eye. Add to drink as garnish.

Notes

Preparation

If the jam is too thick, microwave it for a few seconds to loosen it up before making the rim.

I like to carefully thread a cocktail pick through the edible bloody eye to hold everything together and help it "float" on top of the drink. You can also use a toothpick for this purpose.

Serving

To make shots, shake up the drink as usual then divide the liquid into three shot glasses.

And to turn this into a Halloween punch add eight ounces of the cherry juice, six ounces gin, three ounces amaretto liqueur, and powder from four activated charcoal capsules to a pitcher over ice and stir to dissolve the powder. Add the Halloween cocktail garnish by the glass. Serves four.

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