Midnight Margaritas – Practical Magic Halloween Cocktail

Last Updated on September 10, 2025 by Leah Hall

These margaritas are perfect for the Halloween season, and are in honor of Midnight Margaritas from Practical Magic!

 

Halloween cocktails are some of our favorite to make! We love fun colored drinks, and these Midnight Margaritas are a fun purple/gray and are perfect to celebrate the Halloween season with! Check out our other Halloween drinks like a Margarita Float, Blood Bags, Blue Curacao Halloween cocktails, or Specimen Samples!

 

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We started the idea of these Midnight Margaritas inspired by the movie Practical Magic! This 1998 movie was a favorite movie from my high school and college years. Starring Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing, and Dianne West in the pivotal roles, these Midnight Margaritas have a small scene, but with a fun song and dance involved!

With this in mind, (and the “spell” they used to make the margaritas, i.e. eye of newt and salt over the shoulder) we wanted a fun floral margarita with a great color for Halloween!

Midnight Margarita Cocktail

For a fun purple or gray color, we used some Creme de Violet for violet flavor as well as some lavender simple syrup for more floral. The lavender and violet play off of each other really well and give a fun color to the cocktail. 

We used both lemon and lime juice as that makes for a more rounded margarita (in our opinion!) Try a Cynar Negroni, Zombie Blood Bags, Scotch Halloween Cocktail, or our Nightmare on Whisky Street cocktails for Halloween!

Tips & Tricks

• Garnish – a lime wedge or lime wheel (or lemon) is perfect in this. But, if you are serving for Halloween, a fun Halloween straw or stir stick makes a great touch. 
• Glassware – we used a metal highball for this recipe, but a tumbler or large rocks glass will work just as well. 

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