The Mad Scientist Is A Fun Halloween Cocktail
Every Halloween, my mom had a huge party. My three older brothers were in charge of the decorations and music. They recorded creepy sounds like a creaking door and a mad scientist laughing. They used fake blood, plastic spiders and bats. They also used cheesecloth for spiderwebs, bloody cloths and ghosts.
While my brothers were transforming our house, mom was busy in the kitchenmaking “lady finger” sandwiches, mummy dogs and bloody brain dip. She made punch for the kids and a signature cocktail for the adults. Our guests said she created a fun Halloween cocktail that got better every year!
Until I threw my first Halloween party, I had no idea what big shoes I had to fill. It takes a lot to pull off a haunted house for Halloween! During the party, the kids hand out candy at the door and help me in the kitchen, while my husband plays bartender.
This year, our fun Halloween cocktail is The Mad Scientist. Another great cocktail, any time of the year, is my Pomegranate Martini!
Not only is this fun Hallooween cocktail visually appealing, it is delicious too! The Mad Scientist puts together two of my favorite flavors; orange and black raspberry. When I was a bartender, I used these two tasty liqueurs in many a shot!
So, when I was trying to come up with a fun drink for this year’s Halloween party, I put them together, along with some lemon lime soda and some cranberry juice we had on hand. BAM!! We had this year’s fun Halloween cocktail! Add some dry ice and you will have all your guests in awe!
Ingredients
- 1/2 ounce Blue Curacao
- 3/4 ounce Chambord
- 1 ounce vodka
- Equal parts Cranberry Juice and Lemon Lime Soda
- Dry ice
Instructions
- Mix your first three ingredients in a cocktail shaker with regular ice. Strain into your glass (or beaker!!) Fill glass with equal parts Cranberry Juice and Lemon Lime Soda. Add *dry ice just before serving.
- *Do not handle dry ice with your bare hands. It can cause severe burns or frostbite. Use tongs to add dry ice to your drink. The dry ice will smoke for about 5 minutes.

What is your go-to fun Halloween cocktail or beverage?
That drink looks SO cool. I bet it taste delicious too.
That looks so cool! I bet it would be a hit at Halloween Parties!
This looks like a wonderful drink for Halloween. I will have to make this for my party with the girls. Thanks for the recipe.
Oooh, I love playing with dry ice, yet I have never used it in a drink. This would be perfect for our annual Halloween party. I am totally going to try it. Thanks for sharing
I have actually never worked with dry ice before. It has such a cool effect though.
What a fun drink for a Halloween party! Sounds like it would taste good too!
This looks like a great drink.
We are always looking for a party drink for family get-togethers and this one is so timely, thanks!
These look so cool! These would be perfect for any Halloween party!
That drinks looks awesome! I’ll have to make some for a Halloween party.
Oh this is so cool. I’d love to whip up this special drink for Halloween. Drizly sounds like such a great service.
This looks so fun and sounds delicious! I love fruity martinis, I’m going to make these for Halloween!
We are having a Halloween party for the adults this year. I will have to try making this cocktail for the party. I am sure it will be a big hit.
This looks like such a fun cocktail to try. It will be perfect for a Halloween party.
We will be having my sister and her family over for Halloween. This could be an awesome drink to serve. Thanks for the recipe. I have to get the ingredients and get the house ready!
I am always looking for fun drink ideas. I will have to get the ingredients I need to make this. It looks so fun and delicious.
This sounds great. I’m always looking for a great drink too. I love how it’s great for Halloween too.
That’s pretty creepy! It’s perfect for Halloween especially if you’re going to be hosting a party. You’re very creative! I would really like to try this one out!
This looks like such a fun drink idea. I would like to make it on just an ordinary day to make the evening a little more fun.
That is one neat drink. I would love to try one of these for myself and let people ask me what the heck I am drinking. That would be so funny.
It looked amazing! I can’t wait to try your recipe!
That is so wonderful that your mom created such fun Halloween memories with her family. I love to host parties too, but you are right, they are a lot of work. The drink you created would go over really well with my party guests. It looks like a lot of fun to serve!
My go-to cocktail is always a jack and coke. I also love a good mojito and a French Martini. I’ve served up a French Martini at a dinner party years ago and it was a big hit. I’m going to have to check out Drizly. It sounds amazing and very helpful
Wow this drink looks so spooky. Perfect for Halloween!
That’s so cool! Would love to try this for our Halloween party!
Omg, This is so cool. I want a Halloween cocktail like this. Thanks for the ideas
This is pretty awesome! This will go really well with the things that I have prepared for Halloween. I really appreciate recipes like this, they make the occasion more fun!
I think Drizly is a great service to have. I will have to check out their website and see if they deliver in my area. Your drink looks so good. I would love to come up with my own creations too!
How awesome is this! Would be so awesome for a halloween party or even get together with a few friends. Bet it would be a huge hit!
Yep, the kids shouldnt be the only ones who get to celebrate, lol. I think it sounds fun too.
Wow, I haven’t tried anything like that before! I am so excited to have it for Halloween!
I want to have this! It is so wonderful to have this cocktail for Halloween.
Wow, this is magical! I want to try this, so perfect for our Halloween gathering!
This is so cool. It would be great for an adult Halloween party.
What a fun drink idea!! I love this, I’ll have to try this for sure! How awesome – Halloween’s own drink! Love it!
OMG, I love it! I will definitely make some of this on Halloween!
Wow! I’ve never tried anything like that. Sounds so cool and suitable for Halloween night!
I must say that those pictures caught my attention. Can’t believe Halloween is around the corner.
Oh, my goodness! This is above and beyond idea. I love it! Thanks for sharing!
This will make a great addition to any Halloween party or just to have some fun, love it!
The dry ice should really make it more magical and wicked! I love this idea, spooky and fun!
I love it! What a fun and creative drink for Halloween. The color is perfect, and the dry ice just adds so much to it!
I grew up as an only child so I’m jealous of all your siblings and the fun you had. This martini looks like so much fun. I love the dry ice for Halloween. I’m gonna have to remember this if I have a party.
Now this is one fun cocktail for the adults this Halloween! I think it’s something that I can easily pull off! Thanks for the recipe!
This is such a cool cocktail! I love serving themed dinners and I’m planning a upcoming Halloween one, so I can see myself using this recipe very soon.
this is crazy cool. my next door neighbor always makes the more ridiculously cool halloween parties and she likes to theme the food along, i know she would totally love this.
What a clever idea! I see a. lot of foods being prepared in different ways for Halloween parties but not drinks! Such fun!
I love this cocktail! Did you have to be super careful around the dry ice? Perfect for halloween.
I absolutely need to get my hands on some dry ice. I don’t even know where to get it. The drinks look so fun and I can’t wait to try them..
This looks great! I bet it would be a fun drink for a big Halloween party. I am a former bartender so I still have a love for making new drinks and trying them out.
Wow, this drink looks absolutely awesome! A perfect addition to a blowout Halloween bash!
This sounds like such a yummy drink. I wonder what I can use to make a virgin version of this?
These look so fun! I am definitely going to have to whip up some of these for Halloween!
We love getting together with friends and neighbors at Halloween. This would be a great addition to our party! Can’t wait to try this out!
What a unique Halloween recipe idea! I love how spooky it looks in pictures!
I love this! I would never think to use dry ice in a drink, but it is awesome and has an amazing effect! We don’t do a halloween party because our youngest’s birthday is really close to Halloween, but I can see as she gets older maybe wanting to do a Halloween themed b-day party. Can’t wait to try this out!
How fun is this!? Perfect for halloween parties! I really want to give this a try!
I love that you combined black orange and raspberry together to make this fun ‘mad scientist cocktail’. It looks absolutely delicious!
After taking the kids trick or treating this is DEFINITELY something I would need for myself. I am not a total fan of Halloween, but this drink can get me in the mood..lol.
Thrifting Diva
This looks like so much fun! We are attending a few Halloween parties this month and would love to see something festive like this served.
I adore drinks with Chambord. One of my favorites is a French Martini. Definitely going to give this spooky cocktail a try this Halloween season.
I love your cocktail recipes. I made this one for a Halloween party and it was a huge hit. I even served it in beakers like you showed. Very tasty and the dry ice gave it a very spooky look. Thanks for this one.