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It’s a Halloween Happy Hour!
This blackberry bourbon cocktail was developed for maximum taste and spooky color without using any food coloring or hard-to-find coloring ingredients.
It’s perfect for your Halloween festivities – whether you’re walking trick-or-treaters around the neighborhood, passing out candy to costumed kiddos, or watching your favorite scary movie.
Makes 1 cocktail
2 oz bourbon
1 oz honey syrup
0.5 oz ginger liqueur
2 dashes orange bitters
4-5 blackberries
0.5 oz fresh orange juice*
Muddle blackberries and orange juice in a cocktail shaker until all of the blackberries are crushed.
Add 3-4 ice cubes to the shaker.**
Add honey syrup, bourbon, ginger liqueur, and orange bitters.
Shake well.
Strain through a fine mesh sieve into a glass. (Be patient here! With all those fresh blackberries in your shaker, this step will take longer than usual.)
Enjoy!
Tips on Blackberry Bourbon Cocktails
- Fresh squeezed orange juice is important in this recipe! Buy the fruit, not the bottle of juice (no matter how fresh or fancy it is!).
- You need just enough ice to chill your drink. Don’t load the shaker with ice or it’ll take even longer to strain your cocktail. There’s a lot of blackberry pulp in there!
Snack Pairing

Enjoy your Blackberry Bourbon cocktail with some salty homemade potato chips.
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Blackberry Bourbon Halloween Cocktail
- Prep Time: 5 min
- Cook Time: 0 min
- Total Time: 5 min
- Yield: 1 cocktail 1x
Description
This blackberry bourbon cocktail was developed for maximum taste and spooky color without using any food coloring or hard-to-find coloring ingredients.
Ingredients
2 oz bourbon
1 oz honey syrup
0.5 oz ginger liqueur
2 dashes orange bitters
4-5 blackberries
0.5 oz fresh orange juice*
Instructions
Muddle blackberries and orange juice in a cocktail shaker until all of the blackberries are crushed.
Add 3-4 ice cubes to the shaker.**
Add honey syrup, bourbon, ginger liqueur, and orange bitters.
Shake well.
Strain through a fine mesh sieve into a glass. (Be patient here! With all those fresh blackberries in your shaker, this step will take longer than usual.)
Enjoy!
- Category: Cocktails
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