Cast a spell on the classic margarita and whip up a Halloween upgrade.

Ingredients to make Black Magic Margarita

1. 1 tablespoon of black sanding sugar 

2. 1 cube of ice

3. 60ml of silver tequila (You won’t go wrong with Herradura Blanco and Milagro Silver Tequila, brands you can always rely on.)

4. 30ml of triple sec (The Liqueurful’s Federica Liquor of Oranges    will be a perfect option.) 

5. ¼ cup of freshly-squeezed lime juice

6. Red, blue and green food colouring

7. Fresh lime slices to garnish

How to make Black Magic Margarita

• Start by rimming your rock glass with a lime slice, then dip it into the black sanding sugar.
  

• Pour the tequila, triple sec and lime juice into the glass and stir.
  

• Add the food colouring in small consecutive drops till you achieve the desired black hue.
  

• Drop in a cube of ice and leave on a slice of lime for garnish.
  

• Serve.

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Turn lychees into creepy eyeballs in this cocktail recipe while enjoying that punch from any full-body sake. 

Ingredients to make Eyeballed Lychee Sake

1. 1 cup of sake (For that rich sake flavour, go for the undiluted Saito Junmai Ginjo Genshu 17.5% or Saito Ginjo 12Yo Aged 16.5%.)

2. 1 can of lychees in syrup

3. 1 packet of blueberries

4. Strawberry jam

5. 6 to 8 dried roselle flowers

6. ¾ cups of sugar

7. 2 cups of water

8. Ice cubes

How to make Eyeballed Lychee Sake

• To prepare the roselle syrup, mix the water and sugar in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Drop in the roselle flowers and stir. Reduce the heat and let the mixture simmer for about three minutes until you achieve a slightly thickened consistency. Strain the mixture through a measuring cup and keep in the fridge to cool.
  

• Separate the lychee from the syrup, leaving the latter in a jug for use later. Pat the lychees dry and keep aside.
  

• Mix the sake and lychee syrup in equal portions.
  

• Once lychees are dry, add strawberry jam inside the lychee and around the pits. Then, place a blueberry inside each lychee.
  

• Fill ¼ of a cocktail glass with the roselle syrup and add ice cubes.
  

• Pour in the lychee-sake mixture over a spoon to create an ombre effect. The mixture should cover up to ¾ of the glass.
  

• Place the lychee eyeballs on top of the ice cubes. 
  

• Serve.

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Mystify your guests with the celestial magic of the moon with this Halloween rendition of the martini, maybe one with a higher alcohol content. Make your pick between gin and vodka.

Ingredients to make Full Mootini

1. 50ml of gin or vodka (Classic brands work wonders – go for the Tanglin Singapore Gin or the Absolut Citron. Alternatively, experiment with sake.)

2. ½ teaspoon of charcoal powder

3. 25ml of lime juice

4. 100ml of pineapple juice

5. 25ml of freshly-squeezed lime juice

6. 25ml of soda water

7. Ice

8. Sphere ice

How to make Full Moontini

• Freeze spherical moulds with water to prepare large sphere ice.
  

• Dissolve charcoal powder in the pineapple juice.
  

• Add above mixture, gin or vodka, lime juice and ice to a shaker and shake hard to combine.
  

• Pour alcohol mixture into a chilled coupe glass and add soda water to taste.
  

• Add one large sphere of ice and let it float.
  

• Serve.

Of course, the list is endless – turn up the nightmare on whiskey street by combining single malt Scotch favourites like Twenty Third Street Hybrid Whiskey with rum and coffee liqueur. Or, surprise your guests with a spiced wine concoction, starting with the 2020 Sierra Foothills Old Vine by Zinfandel, and deliver that fiery punch with a dash of cinnamon. Pair the blood-red Sangria with a white wine alternative, combined with limoncello and apple juice, and not forgetting that green colouring for that bewitching Halloween hue.

Clearly, ideas are plenty, which means there’s no limit to your creativity when it comes to experimenting with all the wines & spirits you can have at hand. What’s better? Simply lock in <PREDRINKS15> when you cart out on iShopChangi to enjoy 15% off our duty-free alcohol, capped at S$60. Stock up on the bottles for your party, or prepare your pre-drink mixtures before heading out!

But, don’t leave us out of the party – snap your creations this Halloween and share them with us on iShopChangi’s Instagram and Facebook pages.

Holler trick or drink!