Vampire Kiss Cocktail

Curved glass with the red cocktail in it in front of a martini glass

The Vampire Kiss cocktail is a robust, slightly sweet, and vodka-based cocktail that guarantees to make the perfect spooky Halloween cocktail. The blood-red color makes this delicious drink an instant standout at your next holiday party!

Course Cocktails

Cuisine American

Keyword vampire kiss cocktail, vampire kiss drink, vampire kiss martini

Prep Time 5

Total Time 5

Servings cocktails

Calories 234kcal

Author Elaine Benoit

Equipment

Ingredients

4 ounces raspberry vodka
2 ounces chambord (or black raspberry liqueur)
3 ounces cranberry juice (unsweetened if you can get it, if not see notes below)
.50 ounce grenadine (if the cranberry juice is sweetened, either omit the grenadine or use 2 teaspoons tops)
3 ounces champagne (dry)
2 maraschino cherries

Instructions

Get your cocktail shaker, measuring glass, cocktail spoon and glassware. Rinse 2 cherries to remove the syrup and spear one each on martini picks.
2 maraschino cherries
Add raspberry vodka, chambord, cranberry juice and grenadine to the shaker.
4 ounces raspberry vodka, 2 ounces chambord, 3 ounces cranberry juice, .50 ounce grenadine
Cap the shaker and shake for 15 seconds.
Uncap shaker and add champagne and gently stir with the cocktail spoon.
3 ounces champagne
Cap the shaker and strain and divide the liquid between the two glasses. Add the cherries in the glasses.
Sip
Smile
Enjoy

Notes

Helpful tips

If you're only making a few of these cocktails, I recommend buying the small bottles of champagne; unless of course, you're planning to drink the rest of a full bottle.
If you want to infuse your own homemade raspberry vodka instead of using store-bought (which might have added sugar), you'll need to plan ahead: it takes 5 days for the vodka to infuse properly.
I use Chambord black raspberry liqueur, but you can use any brand you prefer.
I recommend unsweetened cranberry juice for all my cocktails (so I can control their sweetness) but if you can't find it in the store, then use less grenadine (one teaspoon per cocktail) or even omit it, which I strongly recommend.
You will put all the ingredients in the cocktail shaker EXCEPT the champagne, which goes in only after you've shaken together the other ingredients. Champagne is bubbly, so you don't want to shake it. After you add it, take a cocktail spoon and gently stir it in before pouring the drink into the glasses.
I choose to use regular maraschino cherries instead of my beloved Luxardo cherries in this cocktail, because I want their vibrant red to match the color of the drink.
Although I find this garnish too sweet, but if you want, you can put red sugar on the rim. Here's how: wet your finger with some simple syrup and rub it around the rim. Pour a small amount of the sugar on a small plate. Dip each glass in the red sugar, making sure each glass has an even red sugar rim. Shake off any excess sugar and set aside.

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