Spider Cocktail for Halloween with a Licorice Spider Drink Garnish

This spider cocktail is perfect for your next adult Halloween party. It has a licorice spider garnish that is equally spooky and tasty!

Using creative Halloween cocktail garnishes on holidays drinks is a great way to set the mood, and this spider cocktail for Halloween is no exception.

Since spiders are a symbol of Halloween, the licorice spider climbing over the edge of this vodka cocktail makes the drink fit in with any Halloween themed party!

Keep reading to get the recipe for this spider cocktail with step by step photos. To see a tutorial of this Halloween drink and spider cocktail garnish being made, you can watch this YouTube video.

Spider cocktail recipe

This cranberry and vodka based cocktail is similar to a Cosmopolitan. The cranberry juice makes this cocktail sweet, tart, and delicious!

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To make this Halloween cocktail with vodka, you will need the following ingredients:

• 2 oz (60 ml) vodka
• 2 oz (60 ml) cranberry juice
• Splash of ginger ale
• Black sanding sugar

This drink doesn’t contain any ice, so to keep it cool, you’ll want to chill your martini glass before you make it.

When you’re ready to make this Halloween vodka cocktail, moisten the rim of your martini glass and dip it into some black sanding sugar. Give it a good swirl to create the black rim on your drink, as shown below.

Using a cocktail jigger, measure 2 oz (60 ml) of vodka and 2 oz (60 ml) of cranberry juice. Add them to a cocktail shaker and shake with ice. Then use a hawthorne strainer to strain the spider cocktail in your martini glass.

Once it’s in the glass, top with ginger ale, and the cocktail is complete. You’ll want to pour the ginger ale after you’ve shaken the other ingredients, so it doesn’t fizz up in the shaker.

All this spider cocktail needs now is its Halloween drink garnish.

Making the licorice spider garnish

To make this cute and spooky licorice spider garnish, you’ll need the following supplies:

• Black licorice wheels
• Edible candy eyes
• Black gel frosting

To make this Halloween cocktail garnish, unroll two licorice wheels so you can cut them into pieces. You’ll need eight pieces that are 4 inches long, and one piece that is 6 inches long.

Pinch four of the 4″ licorice strips together to create the spider’s legs on one side of its body. Then pinch together the other four 4″ licorice strips together to make the legs on the other side.

Overlap these two sets of spider legs and wrap the 6″ piece of licorice around them to hold the spider legs together and create the spider’s body.

Once you’ve wrapped the longer piece around, you can secure it by tucking it underneath one of the loops you’ve made on the underside of the spider’s body, as shown in the photo below.

Each spider will also have two edible candy eyes. You’re going to attach the eyes to the spider garnish with black gel frosting.

Add a little bit of the frosting on the back of each edible eye and center them on the spider’s body. This frosting will act as an adhesive.

With that, your Halloween garnish is complete! Place the legs of the spider over the edge of the Halloween cocktail so it looks like it is trying to climb out. So much fun!

This Halloween inspired cocktail is fruity and tart with a smooth finish. Making this spider cocktail is a fun way to set a spooky mood for Halloween!

More Halloween cocktail ideas:

If you enjoyed this spider cocktail and garnish, you might like these other Halloween drink ideas with creative cocktail garnishes:

• Ghostbuster cocktail – This drink for Halloween is garnished with spooky whipped cream ghosts. 
• Crow’s Blood drink – Bloody eyeballs garnish this champagne cocktail.
• Bloody Mary cocktail recipe – This traditional Bloody Mary has a devil garnish made from a lime.
• 20 spooky Halloween cocktail recipes – Get the party started with these eerie cocktails, many of which are paired with creative Halloween drink garnish ideas. 

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