This cocktail has two steps: a pure white cocktail offset by a sweetened berry and beet top for that blood red hue. As it sits it will continue to change colour and leak blood throughout! Serve in a highball glass for full horrific effect!

Equipment needed: Blender, strainer, cocktail shaker, highball glasses

For the berry, beet purées (enough for two drinks)

• A handful of frozen blackberries
• A handful of frozen cherries
• 1 pre-cooked beetroot in its juice, chopped
• 50g + 25g caster sugar
• Enough water to just cover
• Juice of one lemon

For each white cocktail

• 35ml Black Forest Gin
• 35ml Vermouth
• 35ml Korol Vodka
• 25ml Lemon juice
• Tonic water

Method

1. Add the frozen fruit into the blender with enough water to cover, the lemon juice and the sugar. Blitz for 30-60 seconds on high to ensure the fruit fully breaks down and the mixture is smooth. Fine strain through a sieve into a jar or jug to remove any seeds and keep to one side.
2. Clean the blender and add the beetroot in a little of its juice, with the 25g caster sugar and some water to cover, blend until smooth and reserve to a bowl.
3. In a cocktail shaker, stir the gin, vermouth and lemon juice together with ice, then strain into a highball glass filled 3/4 with ice, topped up with the tonic water. Using a tablespoon, gently add a tbsp of the beetroot puree, then 2-3 tbsp of the berry purée on top, coaxing gently around the ice if necessary so it begins to ‘bleed’ through the white cocktail.

Feeling spooky? Join the Gastro Gays LIVE on Instagram with @LidlIreland at 6pm on Saturday October 24, where they’ll be showing you how to make two ghoulishly great cocktails – the Bleeding Heart and the Spiced Orchard Hive – in your very own kitchen.