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A Sweet And Spooky Guide: Discover the best cocktail and candy pairings to sweeten up your Halloween

Halloween is quickly approaching which means that sometime over the next few days, you are going to eat candy. What better way to spend October 31 than to pair your favorite Halloween candy with the best cocktail! So what drink goes best with all that candy? To celebrate Trick or Treat festivities this year we are shifting to libations involving port wine. Picture a fine wood port that pairs perfectly with chocolate and caramel desserts, a bottled vintage to go with Twizzlers and Skittles and even the ideal combination for Candy Corn. We have listed the best cocktails to pair with your favorite Halloween candy. After handing out all those treats , take this time to sit back, grab a drink, and keep all the mini-Snickers to yourself. Happy Halloween!

Perfect Treats, No Tricks: Discover Best Cocktails To Pair With Halloween Candy To Sweeten The Spooky Season

A Sweet And Spooky Guide: Discover the best cocktail and candy pairings to sweeten up your Halloween

Port of Manhattan & Snickers

Ingredients:

1 oz Croft Reserve Tawny Port
2 oz rye whiskey
3 dashes Angostura bitters

Method:

Combine all the ingredients into a cocktail shaker and fill with ice. Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a cherry.

Port -Groni Cocktail & Reese’s

Ingredients:

Method:

Add all the ingredients to a rocks glass and fill with ice. Stir until cold and garnish with an orange half-wheel.

Port Coffee Cocktail & Reese’s

Ingredients:

2 oz Croft Reserve Tawny Port
2 oz Cold Brew Coffee
1 oz Irish Cream Liqueur

Method:

Add the Croft Reserve Tawny Port, cold brew coffee and Irish cream liqueur to a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake, then strain into a martini glass. Garnish with coffee beans.

Taylor Fladgate 10-Year-Old Tawny & Reese’s

This 10-year old Tawny involves ripe berry fruit with a delicate nuttiness with notes of chocolate, butterscotch and fine oak wood. It is smooth and silky on the palate and full of ripe fig, and jam flavors.

Fonseca BIN27 & Kit Kat

Because of its rich fruity nose, crammed with pure blackberry and cassis, BIN 27 will pair best with Halloween candy like dark chocolate Kit Kats, Dark Chocolate Hershey’s and Dark Chocolate M&Ms.

Taylor Fladgate Late Bottled Vintage & Twizzlers

Late Bottled Vintage Ports are bottled after being aged in oak vats for 4-6 years. It highlights notes of fresh blackcurrant and strawberry aromas with subtle notes of licorice and spice. The rich yet balanced black fruit flavors will make a great combo with Twizzlers, and Skittles.

Discover the best cocktails to pair with your favorite Halloween candy. Sweet, spooky, and perfectly mixed for a frightfully fun night

Crimson Shadow & Twizzlers

By Crystal Mendoza of Death & Co.

Ingredients:

1.25 oz Fernet-Branca
½ oz Carpano Antica Sweet Vermouth
½ oz Pedro Ximenez Sherry
½ oz Strawberry Purée
1/2 oz Lemon Juice

Method:

Add all ingredients to a shaker with crushed ice. Whip shake vigorously, then strain into a glass filled with crushed ice. Garnish with black licorice sprinkles.

Taylor Fladgate Chip Dry & Candy Corn

The sweet creaminess of the Candy Corn combined with this rich but dry white wine is the ideal Halloween candy pairing. Involving notes of fresh fruit with mellow aromas, this crisp finish is a great balance with sugary candy.

Peppermint Pattie & York Peppermint Patties

By Zak McMahon of Lemon

Ingredients

½ oz Demerara Syrup
½ oz Selvarey Chocolate Rum
½ oz Caffe Borghetti
1 oz Brancamenta
1 oz Rye whiskey
6 mint leaves

Method:

Starting with the mint leaves, build all ingredients in a Julep Cup. Add Crushed ice. Swizzle vigorously. Top and pack down with more crushed ice. Garnish: Mint bouquet, grated dark cacao over ice. Serve with a mini York Peppermint Pattie.

Hard Start & Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Bars

Ingredients:

¾ oz. Fernet-Branca
¾ oz. Brancamenta

Method:

Add all ingredients to a shot glass and enjoy!

Vampire’s Bubbly & Black Licorice

Ingredients:

3 oz. Benham’s Gin
1/2 oz. lemon juice
1 tsp. grenadine
Castello del Poggio Prosecco
Black Licorice

Method:

Place licorice and 1-2 ice cubes into a wine glass. Fill with the gin, lemon juice and grenadine. Top the glass with Castello del Poggio Prosecco.

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Spooky Peach Punch & Candy Corn

Ingredients:

3 cups ice
1 cup Diplomatico Planas rum
1/2 cups peach liqueur
1/4 cup lime juice
500 ml ginger ale
1 bottle Castello del Poggio Moscato
Candy corn
Lemon and lime slices for garnish

Method:

In a large punch bowl, combine Diplomatico Planas rum, peach liqueur, lime juice and ginger ale.nWhen ready to serve, add bottle of Castello del Poggio Moscato to the bowl and stir. Garnish with lime, lemons and candy corn.