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I’ve got the perfect Halloween co*cktail for you today! This Blackberry Sage Margarita is perfectly spooky with it’s dark red color, smoking sage, and dry ice if you’re so inclined.
I love creating fun co*cktails and this one has been the most fun for sure. How could it not with smoky dry ice?! It may take a bit of work to track down some dry ice, but it was totally worth it. You know what’s funny? Every person I talked to about the dry ice felt the need to tell me I didn’t need to be playing with it and that it was dangerous. So I’ll do my due diligence here and state the obvious…
DO NOT TOUCH DRY ICE, DO NOT EAT OR DRINK DRY ICE, DO NOT PASS GO WITH DRY ICE.
Seriously folks, dry ice is perfectly safe as long as you use tongs to handle it. It’s also perfectly safe in co*cktails as long as you use food grade dry ice and let it completely dissolve before enjoying your delicious concoction.
(Psst…. You can also make halloween mocktails with dry ice, too! Use coconut cream and coconut milk instead of the cream and milk in those.)
OK, warning/rant over. Let’s chat about this blackberry goodness. I’m a huge fan of any berry but blackberries and sage are such a winning combination and I figured it would be perfect for halloween. If you can’t find dry ice or simply don’t want to use it you can still make it a “smoking” margarita by lighting a dried sage leaf right before serving.
The aroma of sage burning only adds to the sage flavor profile in the drink. Plus it looks pretty spooky too!
Either way you go it will surely impress your Halloween dinner guests, or yourself all curled up with Harry Potter movies and a blanket (ahem, as in me).
RECIPE CARD
Smoking Blackberry Sage Margarita
The perfect Halloween co*cktail! This Blackberry Sage Margarita is perfectly spooky with it’s dark red color, smoking sage, and dry ice if you’re so inclined.
Course Drinks
Cuisine Mexican
Keyword halloween, refreshing, smoking, spooky
Prep Time 5 minutes
Total Time 5 minutes
Author Maya Krampf from WickedSpatula.com
Servings 1
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Ingredients
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- 2 ounces 100% agave silver tequila
- 1 ounce lemon juice
- 8 medium blackberries
- 5 leaves fresh sage
- 1 teaspoon maple syrup
- 1 dash orange bitters
Garnish (optional):
- Dried sage leaves
- Blackberries
- Dry Ice
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Instructions
More TIPS about this paleo recipe in the post above!
Muddle the blackberries and sage together in a co*cktail shaker until broken down and fragrant.
Pour in the tequila, lemon juice, bitters, and maple syrup. Give it a good shake and pour over either a cube of dry ice (if using) or regular ice if using the dried sage leaf. If using the dried sage light the tip on fire right before serving.
Recipe Notes
**IF USING DRY ICE: DO NOT drink the co*cktail until it has completely dissolved 🙂
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Reader Interactions
Susan
ReplyHow many drinks does the current recipe make. I need six.
Lauren
ReplyThis makes one co*cktail
Celina
ReplyLooks great! I’m going to try this for my Halloween luncheon.
Mark Elliott
ReplyHi Lauren,
Such an impressive drink!! I really like that it doubles as a “spooky” beverage for Halloween, And a “frosty” one around the Christmas holiday. The ingredients are very common(and premium), if not on hand, very, very easy to aquire. Using for multiple holiday offerings…..:) with only a slight recipe and name adjustment…brillant ! Thank you for creating and sharing this.
Susan
ReplyHow can you alter this to make pitchers ?
Lauren
ReplyFor a 32 ounce pitcher simply multiply each ingredient by 8.
Jim D
ReplyLauren – that looks so cool. Thanks for sharing! Also never thought about using blackberry and sage together – thanks for the tip. Happy Halloween!
Kristina
Replyha! do not pass go. yep, dry ice is super fun to play with, but you have to WAIT to take that drink 😉 these look fantastic!
Faith (An Edible Mosaic)
ReplyI love the flavors going on in there (blackberry + sage = YUM), and it’s pretty much the coolest drink ever! Totally randomly, I noticed dry ice for sale the other day at a local grocery store and now I’m dying to try this!!
Kathy Hester
ReplyI am completely in love with this. I may make it for my Halloween dinner party drink!
Marye
ReplyI was all ready to comment about how delicious this sounded until I saw the pictures. Oh my gosh. This Margarita is gorgeous and I cannot wait to try it!
