Blood Sucker Halloween Cocktail Recipe
This vampire-friendly cocktail uses strawberry or raspberry puree to add streams of "blood" down the sides of the glass.
Photo by Steve Murello
By:
Ed Beaden
Ingredients:
1 1/2 oz. Bacardi "0"
1/2 oz. Cointreau
2 oz. pineapple juice
1 Tbs. strawberry or raspberry puree
Preparation:
Pour rum, Cointreau and juice into a shaker with ice. Shake mixture, then pour into a rocks glass. Dip the end of a drinking straw into the berry puree, hold the tip of your finger over the other end and use the straw to squirt puree into the bottom half-inch of the drink, where it will sink in red blobs. Do not stir.
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