🩸 Screamer Shots
Sour cherry and lemon with a spooky fizz that’ll send shivers down your spine.
Makes: 6–8 hair-raising shots

🍒 Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup sour cherry liqueur (or sour cherry schnapps)

• 1/4 cup lemon vodka (or plain vodka + lemon juice)

• 2 tbsp fresh lemon juice

• 1 tbsp grenadine (for blood-red depth)

• 1/4 cup lemon-lime soda or tonic water (for fizz and glow)

• Pinch of edible shimmer dust (red or silver)

• Red sanding sugar or black sugar (rim)

• Corn syrup (for rimming)

• Popping candy (optional—adds extra “screamer” fizz on the tongue)

• Gummy vampire teeth, eyeballs, or skulls (optional garnish)

🔪 Instructions:

1. Rim the Glasses:
   Dip shot glass rims in corn syrup, then into red or black sugar. For an extra scary effect, dip just one side to let it “bleed” unevenly.

2. Mix the Screamer Elixir:
   In a shaker filled with ice, combine sour cherry liqueur, lemon vodka, lemon juice, grenadine, and shimmer dust. Shake hard until cold and shimmering.

3. Add the Spooky Fizz:
   Strain into rimmed shot glasses, filling 3/4 of the way. Top gently with lemon-lime soda or tonic water for a bubbly fizz that dances on the surface.

4. Garnish & Serve:
   Drop in a small gummy eyeball or set a gummy skull on the rim. For extra fun, add a pinch of popping candy to each shot just before serving—it fizzes and snaps like a scream!

💀 Mocktail Version:

• 1/2 cup sour cherry juice or syrup

• 1/4 cup lemonade

• Splash of grenadine

• Lemon-lime soda to top

• Add shimmer and candy garnish just the same—still scary, no booze!

🎃 Serving Tips:

• Present on a black tray with flickering LED candles and a scream sound effect for added drama

• Serve under dim or colored lighting to make the shimmer pop

• Optional: chill your glasses in advance for a fogged-up “cold from the grave” appearance