New Book: WitchCraft Cocktails

Witch’s Cosmo Credit: WitchCraft Cocktails

Are you looking for unique cocktail recipes for Halloween? Check out WitchCraft Cocktails by Julia Halina Hadas. Two Fun Cocktail Recipes from the book are below: Witch’s Cauldron and Witch’s Cosmo. Happy Halloween! 🍸

Witch’s Cauldron
What’s a witch without their mixing cauldron? Based on the infamous Scorpion Bowl, the deep red hue of this fall fruit punch will draw eyes to your magic work. Together, apple, pomegranate, and blood orange offer energies of divination, love, wealth, and fertility. It’s a perfect witch’s blessing to serve at a party! Garnish with a flamed orange wheel.
Energies: Divination, Luck, Love, Blessings, Spirituality
SERVES 1
1 1⁄2 tablespoons apple brandy
1 1⁄2 tablespoons dark rum
1 tablespoon lime juice
1 tablespoon Grenadine
1⁄2 tablespoon pomegranate liqueur
1 jigger (11⁄2 ounces) blood orange juice
1 tablespoon apple juice

DIRECTIONS:
Place all ingredients in a cocktail shaker. Add ice and shake until chilled. Close your eyes and breathe deeply as you shake, focusing your intention energy into empowering the ingredients. Strain into a martini glass. Imagine the magical essence of the seasonal pomegranate, blood orange, and apple fusing together as you bless the concoction for all who drink it!

Witch’s Cosmo
Famous for its pink hue, the Cosmopolitan is an exemplary cocktail of balance. With protective cranberry, cleansing rosemary and lime, and elevating orange, this simply delicious enchantment is all a witch needs to balance out after a long day! Substitute the lime garnish for more rosemary if preferred.
Energies: Protection, Cleansing, Balance
SERVES 1
1 jigger (11⁄2 ounces) vodka
11⁄2 tablespoons cranberry juice
1 tablespoon lime juice
1⁄2 tablespoon orange liqueur
1⁄2 tablespoon Rosemary-Saffron Syrup
1 small lime peel, for garnish

DIRECTIONS:
Place all ingredients except lime peel in a cocktail shaker and add ice. Shake firmly, shaking away the stress of the day and any worries. Once the shaker is chilled, double strain the cocktail into a martini glass. Express lime peel over the top of the cocktail, twist, and drop in.

​Excerpted from WitchCraft Cocktails by Julia Halina Hadas. Copyright © 2020 by Simon & Schuster, Inc. Interior photographs by Harper Point Photography. Used by permission of the publisher. All rights reserved.