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October 26, 2021 | Updated: September 27, 2022 | Laura
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Have a fun Nightmare Before Christmas movie night with these two movie themed recipes! For a cocktail, mix up a spiced old fashioned. This cocktail contains both Christmas and Halloween vibes and is made with a homemade spiced simple syrup. For a treat, make scary gingerbread men cookies which also capture the essence of both Halloween and Christmas.
The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie Night
That's Right! I am the Pumpkin King!
This movie was so much fun to create recipes for! My main goal was to create a cocktail and treat that perfectly combined the Halloween season with the Christmas season.
Recipes that I'm sure Jack Skellington would absolutely love. I'm so excited for this one so let's get going!
31 Days of Halloween
These Nightmare Before Christmas themed recipes were created for my 31 Days of Halloween where every day in October I come up with Halloween snacks and drink recipe to pair with horror films, Halloween movies, or a Halloween activity. It's so much fun and a great way to celebrate the spooky holiday.
→ Check out the entire 31 Days of Halloween!
The Nightmare Before Christmas: Fun Movie Facts
Find these facts plus more over on Wikipedia's The Nightmare Before Christmas Page and on Insider!
✽ Release Date: October 29, 1993
✽ The Nightmare Before Christmas grossed $91.5 million worldwide and has become a cult classic.
✽ The film was nominated for Academy Award for Best Visual Effects- a first for an animated film.
✽ It was first released through Touchstone Pictures because Disney that it would be too dark for kids. It since has been re-issued by Walt Disney Pictures.
✽ The movie was based on a poem that was written by Tim Burton which only had three characters- Jack Skellington, Zero, and Santa Claus.
✽ It took 3 years for them to complete the film with the stop-motion taking 18 months to complete.
✽ If you watch closely, you can actually find Jack Skellington in the movie, Beetlejuice! You can also find him in (or find something that looks like him) in James and the Giant Peach, Coraline, Princess and the Frog, Alice in Wonderland, Finding Nemo, and Sleepy Hollow.
✽ The director, Henry Selick, has confirmed that The Nightmare Before Christmas is indeed a Halloween movie, not a Christmas movie.
Looking for more Halloween recipes that pair with popular scary movies or Halloween movies?
→ Check out all of my recipes that pair with movies!
Now let's get into the two recipes I made for our Nightmare Before Christmas movie night!
Spiced Old Fashioned
Nightmare Before Christmas Cocktail
I wanted this cocktail to have fall and winter flavors. I first thought about cranberries, but Halloween and cranberries aren't really a match made in heaven. BUT spices are a fan favorite of both seasons.
I'm talking ginger, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg. It's a part of pumpkin spice and apple cider, and it's a part of gingerbread and mulled cider.
This spiced old fashioned just may be my favorite cocktail I've created. A bourbon (or rye) is mixed with a homemade spiced simple syrup and Angostura bitters. A bit of burnt cinnamon is grated on top, and the cocktail is garnished with the burnt cinnamon stick for a perfect cocktail that's good during all three of the last months of the year.
✽ GET RECIPE HERE! → Spiced Old Fashioned
Evil Gingerbread Men
Nightmare Before Christmas Treat
The classic gingerbread men.. but make them evil! Find your favorite gingerbread man cookie dough, bake them, and decorate them with scary faces with icing.
I chose to make some that resemble Jack Skellington, some with X's for their eyes, and some Jack O'latern faces. Get creative with it!
Get your evil gingermen made and your elegant spiced old fashioned ready for movie date night, and let's get the movie started!
Category: Movie-themed Recipes, Cocktails, Halloween
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More Halloween Movie Inspired Recipes:
✽ Hocus Pocus (fun Sanderson Sisters dip trio with a bubbling green witches brew punch)
✽ Frankenweenie (a green jalapeno relish hot dog with balsamic ketchup stitches and a green creamy avocado margarita)
✽ The Addams Family (cheesy pumpkin soup with a cream spider web and an elegant spooky purple cocktail)
→ Check out all of my movie-themed recipes!
Bon appétit!
October 26, 2021 by Laura Ehlers
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