Willy Wonka Cocktails

If a cocktail menu could be designed by a candy-factory owner with questionable ethics and unlimited creative license, it would look exactly like this collection. Every drink leans into flavour, colour, and theatrical presentation , chocolate waterfalls, fizzy-lifting cocktails that bubble, Everlasting Gobstopper punches that change colour as you sip.

Inside: Golden Ticket Shot (butterscotch, gold leaf, literally bought your way to the front of the line), Everlasting Gobstopper Punch (colour-shifting butterfly pea flower with layered flavours), Oompa Loompa Orange Mule (orange vodka, ginger beer, lime , small but mighty), Fizzy Lifting Gin Fizz (gin, tonic, elderflower, dramatically carbonated), Violet Beauregarde’s Blueberry Bomb (blueberry, butterfly pea flower, swollen-berry purple), Chocolate Waterfall Martini (chocolate liqueur, vodka, cream, served with a chocolate-drizzled glass).

Built for kids’ birthday parties (all cocktails have kid-safe versions) AND for adult fans who want something less sanitised.

Hosting a Wonka Night?

Opening: Golden Ticket shots as guests arrive. Each one gets one , whoever gets the gilded rim wins the tour.

Factory tour montage: start the Fizzy Lifting cocktails. Bring out the Chocolate Waterfall Martini for the chocolate-room scene.

Character elimination: pour Oompa Loompa Mules. Make each one correspond to a Golden Ticket winner being taken out.

Final scene: Everlasting Gobstopper Punch for the Charlie wins moment.

Pair with: candy charcuterie boards, chocolate fondue, Pop Rocks rimmer salt, rainbow-coloured fizzy sweets.

Want a non-alcoholic version? Most of these have a mocktail equivalent in our Mocktail Recipes theme.