Whether you celebrate Halloween, All Saint’s Day, or Day of the Dead, you need a solid cocktail to go along with it. Here’s a selection of our favorites from the year, along with a recipe for Caramel Pumpkin Monkey Bread. It’s quick and yummy for any celebration you have planned.

First we start off with two wine cocktails, both of which come from Apothic.

Apothic Midnight Blossom
2 oz. Apothic Dark red blend wine
1/2 oz. crème de violette
¼ oz. elderflower liqueur
2 blackberries, muddled
3 oz. champagne

In a cocktail shaker, pour Apothic Dark first, followed by liqueurs and muddled berries. Strain and serve into a champagne flute. Top with champagne and a lemon twist. (If you want to be fancy, take a lemon peel slice–cut into a round–and then cut out a Jack O’ Lantern face in it; a cut at the bottom will allow you to slide it onto the glass rim.)

Dash of Fire
1 ½ oz. rye whiskey
1 ½ oz. Apothic Inferno whiskey barrel aged red wine
1/4 oz. sweet vermouth
4 cherries, muddled
dash of bitters (we used Critter Bitters from Seven Stills)

In a cocktail shaker, muddle cherries, bitters, and sweet vermouth. Add ice and shake until chilled. Strain and serve into a martini glass. Top with a cherry and splash of cherry juice.

Dia de los Muertes Blood Orange Sour
courtesy of the Tuck Room, NYC
2 oz. infused Pelotón de la Muerte Artisan Mezcal
1 oz. blood orange juice (or ½ oz. blood orange puree)
½ oz. black lime juice
½ oz. agave syrup

Shake and strain into a black-salt-rimmed, ice-filled rocks glass.

Note: Infuse 750 ml. bottle of Mezcal overnight with the zest of 7 limes of 3 crushed black limes. Black Salt is a black lava Salt from Hawaii, which tastes like a beautiful mineral salt.

Pumpkin Spice Negroni
created by Mia Mastroianni, Soho House West Hollywood and Bar Rescue
1 oz. Campari
1 oz. Bulldog Gin
3/4 oz Frangelico
1/2 oz. pumpkin puree infused syrup
egg white

Combine all ingredients and dry shake. Re-shake with ice and strain into a small pumpkin (or coupe). Garnish with a light dusting of cinnamon and pumpkin seeds before serving.

Reyka’s Passion Fruit Potion
courtesy of Reyka Vodka
¾ part Reyka Vodka
¾ part gin
¾ part passion fruit syrup
½ part Peychaud’s bitters
¼ part lime

Combine all ingredients together in a cocktail shaker. Shake, strain, and garnish with a grilled peach slice.

To make passion fruit syrup
3/4 cup Goya passion fruit juice
1/4 cup lime juice
1 cup sugar

Combine and stir until sugar is dissolved.

Blood Bath
by SakéOne
3 oz. Tombo Saké
6 black raspberries (fresh or frozen)
1/2 oz. simple syrup
1/4 oz. lemon/lime juice

Pour Tombo over ice in a shaker, then add berries and remaining ingredients. Shake vigorously. Serve in sugar rimmed martini glass.

The Angry Spell
courtesy of Angry Orchard
4 oz. Angry Orchard Crisp Apple (or the new Pear) Hard Cider
1 oz. white rum
3/4 oz. lime juice
1/2 oz. ginger syrup
1/2 oz. Creme de Cassis or Creme de Mure

Add white rum, lime juice and ginger syrup to shaker. Strain into Collins glass with ice. Top with Angry Orchard Crisp Apple and Crème de Cassis. Garnish with a lime wheel and blackberries.

To make ginger syrup
1 cup finely chopped fresh ginger
2 cups sugar
2 cups water

Combine in a small sauce pan. Heat and stir until the sugar is dissolved. Allow to cool before using and strain out any ginger bits.

The Velvet Vampire
courtesy of Kelly Fell, The Duke and Elephant Food and Spirits
2 oz. Old Overholt Rye Whiskey
2 tsp. St-Germain Elderflower Liqueur
1 1/2 oz. pumpkin juice
1 tsp. house made hibiscus juice (infused with lemon and orange)
1/2 oz. fresh lime juice
1/2 oz. simple syrup
1/2 oz. ginger juice

Combine all ingredients in shaker with ice. Shake. Serve in chilled glass with ice.

Pumpkin Spice Shotte
courtesy of Captain Morgan
1 oz. Captain Morgan Jack-O’Blast pumpkin spiced rum
1 oz. Captain Morgan LocoNut coconut rum
2 oz. cold brew (We used coffee but you could also use a stout beer.)
whipped cream
cinnamon
caramel sauce

Combine Jack-O’Blast, LocoNut, and cold brew in a shaker with ice. Pour into 2.5 oz. shot glass and top with whipped cream, cinnamon, and a caramel drizzle.

Nightmare
courtesy of Cakewolf.com
1 part absinthe
1 part coffee flavored liqueur
1 part crème de cacao

Build in a mug and top with strong coffee.

Brockmans Black and Gold
courtesy of Brockmans Gin
2 oz. Brockmans Gin
1/2 oz. Drambuie
1 oz. lemon juice
.75 oz. honey and heather syrup
2.5 oz. pineapple juice
3 drops of black food coloring
gold edible glitter

Shake all liquid ingredients and serve over cubed ice in a Hurricane Glass. Apply one spray of edible gold glitter to the top half of the glass to stand out against the black food coloring. Garnish with a lemon wedge fan.

Pumpkin Caramel Monkey Bread
courtesy of Pillsbury.com
½ cup granulated sugar
2 Tbsp. pumpkin pie spice
4 cans (16.3 oz. each) Pillsbury Grands! Flaky Layers refrigerated Original biscuits
1 cup packed brown sugar
¾ cup butter
¼ cup canned pumpkin (not pumpkin pie mix)

Heat oven to 350°F. Spray 6-cup (9-inch) fluted tube cake pan or angel food (tube) cake pan with cooking spray.

In large food-storage plastic bag, mix granulated sugar and pumpkin pie spice. Separate each can of dough into 8 biscuits; cut each biscuit into quarters. Place 6 to 8 biscuit pieces in sugar-spice mixture; shake well. Continue to add more biscuit pieces to sugar-spice mixture until all are completely coated. Place biscuit pieces in pan.

In 1-quart saucepan, melt butter, brown sugar and pumpkin over medium heat. (We added a tablespoon of brandy.) When mixture begins to boil, cook and stir 1 minute. Pour over biscuits in pan.

Bake 35 minutes or until golden brown. Cool in pan 10 minutes. Place plate upside down over pan; turn plate and pan over. Remove pan. Serve warm. This is great with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top!