10/12/2026
PURPLE PEOPLE EATER COCKTAIL
A fruity Halloween cocktail with blackberry, citrus, and a spooky candy eye.
Ingredients
* 1½ oz vodka
* 1 oz blue curaçao
* 1 oz cranberry juice
* ½ oz grenadine
* ½ oz fresh lemon juice
* 1 oz lemon-lime soda
* Ice
* Purple or black sanding sugar, for the rim
* Lemon wedge, for the rim
* 3 blackberries and 1 candy eyeball, for garnish
Instructions
1. Rub a lemon wedge around the rim of a rocks glass, then dip it into the sanding sugar. Fill with ice.
2. Add vodka, blue curaçao, cranberry juice, grenadine, and lemon juice to a cocktail shaker filled with ice.
3. Shake for 15 seconds, then strain into the prepared glass.
4. Top with lemon-lime soda and gently stir.
5. Thread the blackberries onto a cocktail pick. Nestle a candy eyeball on top and lay the pick across the rim, adding the eye just before serving.
For the prettiest purple: Use cranberry juice rather than cranberry cocktail, and measure the grenadine carefully—extra red syrup can turn the drink burgundy.
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