Between the “eyeball” ice cubes and the blood stained rim, the BooTini adds a sinful and seasonal twist to a classic cocktail. Even your most blood-thirsty guests will feel like the undead as they sip their way to Halloween happiness.
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Hi, I'm Evette Rios, here on eHow.com, and Halloween is just around the corner and you need some cocktails for your guests and I've got just the thing. This is the BooTini and I'm going to show you how to make it. So I've got the drink already mixed up. It's a BooTini. It's Vodka, pomegranate juice and lime juice. So I've got that already mixed up, ready to go. I'm going to post those ingredients on line so you can make it at home and then I've got my ice cubes which are going to be eyeball ice cubes and for that I'm using lychees. These are just canned lychees. You can get these at any grocery store, usually in the Asian food aisle, they've got them in there and then the maraschino cherries. So what you're going to do is you're going to grab a lychee and they're so super gross. They just, I mean they're delicious but they look disgusting and then you're going to put your cheery in there and then you've got a little eyeball and you're going to freeze these. I've got a bunch here that I've already frozen, get them nice and hard, so freeze them overnight if possible and these are going to be your ice cubes in your drink. So I'm just going to put one of those in each of my glasses here and I'm serving them in martini glasses but you know, you could serve them in anything. Frankly I feel that the martini glasses are a little bit of a liability when you're having a party because they inevitably get broken, I'm not sure who invented them, Mr. Martini, but I've got some icing here. This is going to be the blood for the blood rimmed glasses because on Halloween you've got to up the drama. So that's what you'd use and I love this stuff because it's got a squeeze bottle so it's really easy and you're just going to kind of go around the edge and drop it down like that so you've got some blood drops. It's just so perfect and it's super fun. I'm telling you, guests really appreciate when you go the extra mile like this. So once I've got it all, ooh, bloodied up on the outside like that, you can actually put this also, if you want to, put it in the freezer and it will kind of firm up on you. So you will have less drippage. I'm just going to pour my drink right in there. Oh yeah, and there you go, so cheers to that, let's give it a shot, um, that's great, I love it. Well I'll be drinking more of that later but I'm Evette Rios, here on eHow.com and keep coming back because we have loads more Halloween tips just for you.