Official Martha Stewart Cocktail for Halloween

If anyone knows how to take Halloween to another level it's Martha Stewart. And for Halloween she takes the classic piña colada right up there too with her piña colada. And when Martha Stewart does Halloween she doesn't just carve a pumpkin or two and think well that's Halloween sorted. Martha goes all in. She loves Halloween and sees it as a time for creativity, a little spookiness and mystery and a whole lot of fun. And her piña coladas certainly tick all of those boxes. They're spooky, they're fun, they're creative and definitely set the tone. So today we're making Martha's Halloween twist on a classic piña colada, complete with a creepy bloody red rim. So what do we need? We need pineapple juice. We need white rum. I'm using Bacardi Superior which is my white rum go-to. Cream of coconut, this is a thick sweet coconut product and it's not the same as coconut cream or coconut milk. Coco Lopez is probably the best known brand but isn't available everywhere. If you can't get it where you live, like me, don't worry, I've got you. I've made my own and I'll put the recipe in the description below so you can make it too. We also need cream and freshly squeezed orange juice. Martha calls for freshly squeezed and we only need 2.5ml so one orange will easily do it. This is a blended frozen cocktail, so you will also need ice and a blender. I'm just going to use crushed ice in mine. It really depends on what your blender can handle, whether you can use cubes or crushed ice. And we're going to garnish it with a corn syrup mixed with red food colouring to make blood. Corn syrup is another ingredient that's common in North America, but harder to find elsewhere. So a good substitute, and what I'm using, is honey. Try to use a lighter amber coloured honey for the best blood effect. Now before we make the cocktail we need that bloody rim. So you need a martini glass and we're not pre-chilling it today. Condensation on a chilled glass creates a wet surface and our drizzle will just slip off. So to make the bloody rim I'm going to mix 2 teaspoons or 2 bar spoons which is 10 mils of honey or corn syrup and we just need like, you just need a toothpick measurement. Use the end of this knife since it's handy, you need the tiniest bit of red colouring. Just mix that up and we'll see if we have blood. I think that's a little too light so I'll just grab a bit more. Better to add as you go because you can't take any away but you can always add more. Uh oh. So now I've done the mistake of pouring too much onto this plate. I think that is looking a lot more blood-like, but I still would like it a bit more, so just keep adding until you've got the effect that you like. So we just take the glass now, because... I don't want the cocktail to taste like honey, I'm just going to do the outside of the rim and then it can drizzle down the side and also I don't want to get a mouthful of honey because there is no honey in this cocktail so it's going to affect the taste. I don't know what corn syrup looks like or tastes like so I can't really say if that would affect the taste also but I think if you just leave a little gap if you want to it just gives you a place to drink where you're not getting a, in my case, a mouthful of honey. I'm just going to gently go around on the rim. Being careful not to not to do the whole whole glass just leaving myself a gap so I can drink the drink and taste the cocktail and not the yeah I have this little gap on the side. Okay as I said before the pina colada is a frozen blended drink so everything goes into the blender with ice. Let's squeeze the orange. Isn't this looking suitably gruesome? Awesome. We need 22.5 mls or 3 quarters of an ounce of freshly squeezed orange juice. So I've got some crushed ice here and I've got my blender cup, we'll just put, it's about a quarter of a cup of crushed ice that you need or ice, whether you're using crushed ice like me, just want to get rid of some of those bigger pieces. Next we need 60 mils or 2 ounces of pineapple juice. I like to use the juice that you get in a can of either pineapple slices or pineapple chunks. The juice from the can, as long as you get just juice, not in syrup, is pretty pure and it doesn't have any preservatives and isn't sweetened. So 60 ml or 2 oz of pineapple juice. There we go. Okay, so now for the cream of coconut and we need 45 ml or 1.5 oz of cream of coconut. Now we also need cream, a heavy cream or thickened cream is what you want. And we just need 15 mils or half an ounce of thick cream. Last but certainly not least, we need 30 mils or one ounce of white rum. Okay, so everything's in. Now I couldn't find my extension cord for my blender, so I'm just going to have to go behind me to blend. Okay, we just need to pour this in. My glass is getting bloodier and bloodier by the minute. Look at that, nice and frozen. And there we have Martha Stewart's Pina Colada. Let's give it a taste. That's good. That's really delicious. It's creamy with the pineapple and coconut coming through first and there's a little freshness from the orange juice. Rum is very subtle but it's definitely there in the background. It's everything you expect from a Pina Colada but a little lighter and fruitier. And there's only one ounce of rum, being the only alcohol in the cocktail. So if you prefer drinks with less alcohol, this could be a really good option. It's also great for a cocktail to serve at a Halloween party because your guests can have more than one drink without consuming too much alcohol. Now that you know how to make Martha's delicious Pina Colada, you might wanna make a corpse bride cocktail for Halloween. You can do that by watching this video next. Trick or treat, this is definitely a treat, and I'll see you next week for another cocktail. Cheers.