brain food

I’ve spent more time than I care to admit hunting online for the perfect party drink. For a scary movie night I held last October, I decided I needed a drink that didn’t just sound like a Halloween drink but looked like a Halloween drink. I found what I was looking for in the Brain Hemorrhage.

It’s a gruesome little shot — you slowly pour Bailey’s into schnapps, and the Bailey's coagulates to form a cloudy, squiggly “brain” that appears to be sitting in formaldehyde. Then you drop in a touch of grenadine for a bloody effect.

The original drink I came across used peach schnapps as the base, but that concoction tasted a lot like cough syrup to me. I much prefer the drink with banana schnapps, making it reminiscent of banana cream pie. (Yum!)

Brain Hemorrhage

• 1 oz. banana schnapps (or whatever schnapps you prefer)
• 1 tsp. Bailey's Irish Cream
• 2 drops grenadine

Pour schnapps into a (preferably clear, logo-less) glass. Slowly pour Bailey's in glass over the backside of a spoon — this will help you achieve brain-like squiggles. Then tap in grenadine.

Comments

Thanks for the "spoon" tip! Am def making this for my Halloween party!

Just as an FYI - Family Magazine has an entire section of Halloween drink ideas both non-alcoholic and alcoholic that are really cool. I'm sure somebody wants to drink Embalming Fluid on Friday night.