It’s time to pick your poison! This Crow’s Blood Drink is a red Halloween cocktail which is made even more gruesome by the addition of a lychee eyeball garnish.
This Halloween champagne cocktail is a seasonal variation of the classic champagne cocktail, which dates back to the 1800s. The drink traditionally consisted of a sugar cube with bitters which was topped with cognac and champagne.
This Crow’s Blood champagne cocktail turns the original drink blood red, and has a scary Halloween cocktail garnish. If you’re hosting a party and want to set a mood with Halloween drinks, this spooky cocktail is for you!
You can get a printable recipe for this Crow’s Blood Halloween drink, with step by step photos below. Or if you’re a visual learner, you can watch this Halloween cocktail being made in this YouTube video.
Crow’s Blood cocktail ingredients
This blood red cocktail is very impressive looking, and super easy to make. For this Halloween drink recipe all you need are the following ingredients:
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- 1 sugar cube
- 4 dashes of angostura bitters
- 2 oz (60 ml) unsweetened cranberry juice
- 2 oz (60 ml) champagne or Prosecco
For the Halloween cocktail garnish that sits on the rim of this red Halloween drink, you need the following ingredients:
Making the Crow’s Blood Halloween drink recipe
To start, you’ll want to make sure that your martini glass, cranberry juice and champagne have been chilled. The drink doesn’t have ice in it, so starting with a chilled glass and ingredients will ensure it stays cold longer.
Take a sugar cube and drop it into your chilled martini glass. Then add four drops of angostura bitters to the sugar cube. The bitters add both color and depth of flavor to this Halloween drink with champagne.
Pour 2 oz (60 ml) of cranberry juice into your glass and fill to the top with champagne or Prosecco (leaving room for the Halloween drink garnish).
The amount of sparkling wine you need will depend on the size of your martini glass. I used about 2 oz (60 ml) of champagne to make each of my Halloween champagne drinks.
Making the lychee eyeball garnish
One of the fun things about Halloween cocktails is the items that can be used to garnish them. Fruits and vegetables can all be put to good use when coming up with ideas for Halloween cocktail garnishes.
Today, we’ll be using whole lychees and large black olives along with a bit of red food coloring to make pairs of gruesome bloodshot eyes to garnish our spooky champagne cocktails.
The lychees have a large cavity in them that is the perfect size for the black olives. To make the eyeball, just stuff each whole lychee with an olive.
They are starting to look like eyes, but for Halloween, let’s go all out and give the eyeballs a bloodshot look. Take your bottle of red food coloring and drop a few drops on the lychee fruit.
The red food coloring dyes this Halloween garnish so it looks like bloody eyes, but if you’re not careful the dye will stain your hands. You can always used rubber gloves to prevent this.
The food coloring on the eyeballs also adds a bit more red to the color of this Halloween champagne drink, making it appear very blood-like.
Turn these lychee eyeballs into a cocktail garnish, by pushing a cocktail skewer through two of them. Then position them on top of the cocktail glass.
Depending on your glassware, cocktail skewers may not be long enough to fit across the glass. If you have martini glasses with a wide diameter, you can cut a bamboo skewer to size and use that instead of the cocktail skewer.
You can also just drop the eyeballs into the drink itself. This method of garnishing is a good way to serve this spooky drink if you to make a large batch of it and serve it as a Halloween champagne punch.
Guests can just scoop up the eyeballs and the Crow’s Blood champagne drink with a ladle and serve themselves. This Crow’s Blood cocktail is super easy to make, but is sure to impress your guests.
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Crow's Blood Halloween Drink With Lychee Eyeball Garnish
Halloween drinks with champagne are a great idea because the bubbles give the drinks a little bit of movement, which looks almost magical!
This Crow's Blood champagne cocktail recipe is sweet and tangy. It is garnished with lychee eyeballs for a blood-curdling Halloween drink that your party guests will love.
The recipe below is for one drink, but you can easily adjust the quantity if you want to make a larger batch of champagne Halloween drinks.
Ingredients
Crow's Blood Halloween drinks:
- 1 sugar cube
- 4 dashes of angostura bitters
- 2 oz (60 ml) unsweetened cranberry juice, chilled
- 2 oz (60 ml) champagne, chilled
Lychee eyeball cocktail garnish:
- 2 whole lychees, drained
- 2 black olives, pitted and drained
- Red food coloring
Instructions
Making these champagne Halloween cocktails:
- Put a sugar cube in a chilled martini glass.
- Add four drops of angostura bitters to the sugar cube.
- Pour in 2 oz (60 ml) of unsweetened cranberry juice.
- Top with champagne (roughly 2 oz or 60 ml), leaving about an inch at the top for bubbles and room for the garnish.
- Garnish with lychee eyeballs and serve.
Making the lychee eyeballs Halloween garnish:
- Drain lychees and pitted black olives.
- Put a whole black olive in a lychee fruit.
- Repeat step 2, so you end up with two lychees each stuffed with an olive.
- Drop several drops of red food coloring the lychee fruit to give the eyeballs a bloodshot look.
- Push a cocktail skewer (or bamboo skewer cut in half) through the eyeballs and position them on the top of the cocktail.
- Enjoy!
Notes
Since these Halloween cocktails with champagne are served without ice, it's important to chill the martini glasses before you make them, so they stay cold as long as possible.
Just as food coloring can stain lychee fruit, it can also stain your fingers if you touch it. You can wear rubber gloves to avoid this.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield:
1Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 133Total Fat: 1gSaturated Fat: 0gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 1gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 62mgCarbohydrates: 13gFiber: 0gSugar: 11gProtein: 0g
Nutritional information is approximate due to natural variation in ingredients and the cook-at-home nature of our meals.