Most of you might know that recently I have been obsessed with the 3 time Emmy award
winning series, True Blood.
Its an amazing series and unless you’ve been living in a cave, you’ve heard about it or seen
it to know what I’m talking about…
So for this years Halloween I’m hosting a True Blood themed party, full of the shows props and
decorations made by myself. Hopefully it will be awesome.
You just can’t go wrong with True Blood.
For drinks I was thinking of something… Bloody, but pretty and easy to achieve at the same time.
So here it is:
Blood rimmed glasses filled with a red cocktail blend. I got the idea from the Hostess with the Mostess.
…and this cocktail will be the Tru Blood drink for my party!
I’ve printed out the Tru Blood labels and sticking them to big glass bottles.
Don’t these just look awesome!?
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INGREDIENTS:
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Blood Dripped – Rimmed Glasses
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup. Karo syrup/glucose/light corn syrup
1/2 cup water
red food coloring
cinnamon (optional)
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Vampire Elixir
2 parts vodka
1 part grenadine syrup
lemon juice
soda water/ginger ale
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DIRECTIONS:
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Blood Dripped – Rimmed Glasses
Combine sugar, syrup and water. Cook without stirring to hard crack stage.
Add food coloring. (Optional: Cinnamon may be added for flavor.)
Turn off heat.
While the mixture is still hot, dunk the top of the cocktail glass into the mixture to create the red rim.
If you need to do several glasses, keep the mixture hot so it lasts longer, by leaving the heat on low.
You can go anywhere from just along the very tip of the rim to part way down the glass.
Flip the glass right side up to cool.
The thick consistency of the mixture will cause “drips” as it hardens on the glass!
This rims approximately 8 glasses.
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Vampire Elixir
Using a cocktail shaker, add in some ice and all of the ingredients.
Shake vigorously, until well blended .
Give it a taste to see if you want it sweeter and pour it gently into your “bloody” glass half way.
Fill it to the top with some soda water or ginger ale.
