5 Spooky-Easy Halloween Spritz Cocktails you’ll love
Easy to make, delicious Halloween spritz cocktails based on Italy’s most famous cocktail: spritz! Fun Halloween drink ideas for a Halloween party for the grown ups
Spritz is most commonly associated with lazy summer days on Italian terraces, but its bubbly prosecco base and the infinite variations it lends itself to, also make it perfect as a Halloween drink.
In this post, I share 5 ideas for a seasonal Halloween twist to your spritz cocktails that you can easily make at home and are a guaranteed success.
Easy party idea! Serve them as a welcome cocktail while your guests graze from your delicious and perfectly themed Halloween charcuterie board!
These are all alcoholic drinks as they use prosecco as a base. These are intended for adult, responsible consumption only. We advocate quality over quantity: always drink responsibly.
Classic Halloween Aperol Spritz
The first Halloween spritz idea I bring to you is the classic Aperol Spritz recipe: with its bright orange color, it i basically already Halloween in a glass!
All you need to do is dress up your glass with easy props and the spooky factor is guaranteed!
Ingredients: Aperol, Prosecco, soda water, ice.
- 3 parts of prosecco, chilled
- 2 parts of Aperol
- 1 part soda or tonic water
- Ice cubes
- Orange slice as decoration
- Serve with orange or black straw
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Classic Halloween Campari Spritz
The second Halloween spritz idea I bring to you is another classic, the delicious and boozy Campari Spritz.
Campari spritz swaps Aperol with Campari which is stronger, a little less sweet and a beautiful red color. For this to scream Halloween, you only need a themed glass or black straw!
- 3 parts of prosecco, chilled
- 2 parts of Campari
- 1 part soda or tonic water
- Ice cubes
Halloween Spritz Bellini
A bellini is one of the nicest Italian cocktails you can get and it is simply made my mixing prosecco and peach pulp (or juice, if easier).
The cocktails has a delicate orange color that can easily be turned Halloween-y with a black straw, bat cocktail stirrer or seasonal ice cubes.
Ingredients: Prosecco, Peach Juice
- 1 part prosecco
- 1 part peach juice
The Midnight Mimosa Spritz
You can never go wrong with a mimosa at a party and making a mimosa look halloween-y is super easy!
Swap standard juice with blood orange juice (or mix half and half), use Halloween stirrers or a rim of black sugar for guaranteed effect.
Ingredients: Aperol, Prosecco, soda, orange juice.
- 1 part prosecco
- 1 part blood orange juice
Vampire Spritz
Of course, orange and red are only two of the elements of the perfect Halloween palette: purple and black are also perfect for Halloween and give vampire vibes with very little effort!
Ingredients: Prosecco, blackcurrant juice, soda
- 3 parts prosecco, chilled
- 2 parts blackcurrant
- 1 part soda or tonic water
- Ice
- Blackberries or similat dark berries as decoration
How to add a Halloween twist to your spritz cocktails: quick prop ideas to make your spritz cocktails Halloween perfect:
- Freeze plastic spiders inside ice cubes, then use them in the drink. Super effective and easy!
- Plastic spiders, bats, or skeleton hands as stirrers.
- Dry ice (for that spooky fog effect)
- Orange & black straws
- Garnishes shaped with tiny cookie cutters (pumpkin, bat, star). Easy to shape foods you can safely add as decorations are apple slices and cucumber.
- You can use marhsmallows to create spooky ghosts: use toothpicks to then place them across the glass rim
- Experiment with black food coloring to create black sugar to decorate the rim of your glass
