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Sour Apple Pucker Drink – Green Halloween Cocktail Recipe

Say hello to the Frankenstein Martini. This green Halloween cocktail recipe brings together Frankenstein’s two main colors – black and green – in one delightfully ghoulish drink.

It’s so fun to use color in Halloween drinks. There is nothing quite as spooky as a Halloween cocktail using a colored liqueur as a base for the recipe.

Today, we’ll be using Sour Apple Pucker, as the star of this cocktail. This liqueur is an apple-flavored Schnapps with a taste similar to green apples (like Granny Smith’s). It is often drunk as a shot or used in cocktails.

Today, we will be combining it with vodka and Sprite! This devilishly eerie Halloween drink is the perfect way to start your adult Halloween party.

Green Halloween cocktail recipe with a black coffin and pumpkin with gummy worms.

Ingredients for the Frankenstein Halloween martini cocktail recipe

This spooky recipe is ready in just a few minutes. You will need the following items to make this green Halloween drink:

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Fresh lime with tube of black sanding sugar.

How to make the apple pucker vodka drink

Part of the appeal of this Halloween drink is the green and black color combo. Let’s start by making the black rim.

Preparing the glass for this Frankenstein drink

You will need black sanding sugar sprinkles, a lime, and a small plate to rim the glass.

Martini glass upside down on a white plate with sanding sugar.

Cut slices of lime and run them along the glass rim. This will add some lime juice to the edge which will allow it to pick up the black sanding sugar.

Place the sanding sugar on a plate in a fine layer and dip the lime-rimmed martini glass into the sprinkles. Swirl the glass.

Martini glass with black sugar rim.

Tada! The glass is ready for the other ingredients.

Mixing the dark green cocktail

This drink is stirred, not shaken, and could not be easier to make. Add ice to a mixing glass. Then pour in the vodka, Sour Apple Pucker, and Sprite.

Sour apple liqueur has the light green Granny Smith color and will make a pale green drink. Add a couple of drops of green gel food coloring to enhance the color of this drink and make it more Frankenstein-looking.

Stir the ingredients in the mixing glass with a long handled bar spoon, and, once chilled, gently strain into your martini glass. That is all there is to making this Frankenstein Halloween martini.

Green food coloring next to a green martini drink with a black rimmed glass.

If vodka isn’t your spirit of choice, swap it out with Patron tequila for a Frankenstein Halloween margarita.

Garnishing the Frankenstein martini cocktail

This Halloween drink recipe already has a spooky thing going for it with the two colors but you could dress it up even more to put your guests in an even more eerie mood.

Halloween cocktail recipe: Frankenstein cocktail with three dark chocolate spiders.

Some additional Halloween garnish ideas:

  • Use spider chocolate molds and fill them with some melted chocolate. Position the spider legs on the base of the glass as an extra treat.
  • Drape one or two gummy worms over the edge for a ghoulish effect.
  • Drop in a couple of candy eyeballs and watch your guests shriek!
  • Fill a plastic syringe with some Frankenstein blood and add it to the drink as a chaser.

The color sets the mood instantly, and the right Halloween cocktail garnishes add the perfect finishing touch!

Green Halloween martini with words Garnishing a Frankenstein martini.

Frankenstein Halloween drink profile

  • Type of drink – Spirit-forward
  • How to serve – Up in a rimmed martini glass
  • Preparation – Stirred
  • Strength – Medium
  • Difficulty – Easy
  • Cocktail type – Halloween themed

Tasting the easy Halloween cocktail

This green vodka drink is tart and sour with a hint of lime. Depending on the garnishes you use, it will taste sweet, rich or even more tart.

Halloween cocktail recipe: Green Halloween drink in a martini glass with a black rim.

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More Halloween cocktail recipes to try

If you enjoyed this spooky drink, be sure to also try these Halloween cocktails:

Red drink in a martini glass with bloody eyeballs.

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Green drink in a martini glass with words Frankenstein martini - creepy Halloween cocktail recipe.

Yield: 1 Frankenstein Halloween drink

Sour Apple Pucker Drink - Green Halloween Cocktail Recipe

Green drink in a martini glass with a pink napkin at base.

This fun Halloween cocktail recipe is called the Frankenstein drink. It uses Frankenstein's two colors - black and green.

It is presented in a martini glass with a black sanding sugar to create a spooky effect.

Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 15 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 ½ oz. vodka
  • 1 oz. Sour Apple Pucker
  • 4 oz. Sprite
  • 2-3 drops of green gel food coloring (optional)
  • ¼ cup black sanding sugar sprinkles
  • 1 lime for the glass rim

Instructions

Prepare the glass:

  1. Cut a lime and run it around the glass rim. Make sure to coat the rim well with lime juice.
  2. Add a shallow layer of black sanding sugar sprinkles on a plate.
  3. Dip the lime rimmed glass into it and swirl it around so that the edge is coated in black sanding sugar sprinkles.

Make the cocktail:

  1. Put ice in a mixing glass.
  2. Add the 1 ½ oz. vodka, 1 oz. sour apple pucker, and 4 oz. of Sprite.
  3. To make the drink more dark green, add 2-3 drops of green food coloring.
  4. Stir the ingredients in the mixing glass with a long handled bar spoon until chilled.
  5. Gently strain into your prepared glass.
  6. Enjoy! Please drink responsibly.

Notes

    Instructions

      Nutrition Information:

      Yield:

      1

      Serving Size:

      1

      Amount Per Serving: Calories: 445Total Fat: 2gSaturated Fat: 0gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 18mgCarbohydrates: 93gFiber: 7gSugar: 72gProtein: 2g

      Nutritional information is approximate due to natural variation in ingredients and the cook-at-home nature of our meals.

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      Kelly

      Wednesday 23rd of October 2024

      How do you make a large batch of these Frankenstein martinis?

      Carol

      Friday 25th of October 2024

      Decide how many people you want the drink for and multiply the ingredients to match this.

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