Virtual Virgin

Delilah’s Darkside Inferno Bar Cocktail Menu

Invented in Silver Zombie

“Love it. A Virtual Virgin, wouldn’t that be fun to dabble in again?”

—Psychic psychologist Helena Troy Burnside in Silver Zombie

3 ounces chilled Dr Pepper or cherry Coke

3 ounces chilled lemon-lime sparkling bottled water

1 ounce Rose’s Lime juice

1 ounce Rose’s Cranberry Twist mix

LAYER ALL INGREDIENTS in a Tom Collins glass, with ice to fill and a long-stemmed fresh Bing cherry garnish. This dark brew reminiscent of a hopped-up cherry Coke allows you to sip in sinless certainty.

3 ounces of chilled Dr Pepper or cherry Coke

3 ounces of chilled lemon-lime sparkling bottled water

1 ounce black cherry vodka

1 ounce lime vodka

1 ounce Rose’s Lime juice

1 ounce Rose’s Cranberry Twist mix

LAYER INGREDIENTS AS above. This alcoholic version allows you to look soda-pop innocent but drink like the Devil.

Invented in Silver Zombie

We have got one hot little Roomba robot vacuum cleaner on our hands. Master? I wonder if she does dudes.

—Irma, Delilah’s alter ego, in Silver Zombie

3 ounces chilled Fuze blueberry raspberry bottled water

3 ounces chilled lemon-lime sparkling bottled water or champagne

1 ounce Jose Cuervo Silver tequila

1½ ounces lime vodka

1 ounce Alizé Bleu with vodka, cognac, and tropical fruit

COMBINE ALL INGREDIENTS, then dribble a dash of blue curaçao down the inside of the glass to sink to the bottom. Be careful that you don’t sink to the bottom in the snare of the real Silver Zombie.

Invented in Vampire Sunrise

“Umm. Subtle yet spicy . . . for modern women like us.”

—Psychic psychologist Helena Troy Burnside in Vampire Sunrise

6 ice cubes

1½ ounces pepper vodka

½ ounce DeKuyper Hot Damn! Cinnamon Schnapps Liqueur

4–7 ounces orange juice, well shaken

1 ounce Alizé Gold Passion orange cognac

½ to 1 ounce grenadine

PUT ICE CUBES in 12-ounce highball glass. Pour in pepper vodka and cinnamon schnapps, add orange juice to fill to desired level. Add Alizé. Last, pour in grenadine, which will settle to the bottom. Keep adding ice to this classic brunch eye-opener and daytime drink as it melts . . . for a longer, more sensual experience to the very last drop.

Invented in Brimstone Kiss

“Sounds like something you’d sip on all night long and I’d knock back in a couple slugs.”

—Rick Blaine/Humphrey Bogart CinSim in Brimstone Kiss

2 jiggers Inferno Pepper Pot vodka

1 jigger DeKuyper “Hot Damn!” Cinnamon Schnapps Liqueur

2 jiggers Alizé Red Passion

Jalapeño pepper slice (optional)

2 ounces champagne (for Version 2)

VERSION 1: POUR all ingredients into a martini shaker with ice. Shake gently. Pour into a martini glass garnished with jalapeño pepper slice. A hell of a drink!

VERSION 2: POUR all ingredients into a tall footed glass filled with ice. Stir well. Top off with champagne. A frothy but potent libation that might lead to pleasant damnation.

Invented in Dancing with Werewolves

“A sweet, seductive girly drink, but with unsuspected kick.”

—Werewolf mob enforcer Sansouci, in Brimstone Kiss

1 ounce white crème de cacao

1½ ounces Stolichnaya Stoli Vanil

1 ounce Godiva White Chocolate Liqueur

½ ounce Chambord raspberry liqueur

(Other brands may be substituted)

POUR VODKA AND liqueurs except the raspberry in the order given and stir gently. Drizzle in the raspberry liqueur. Don’t mix or stir. The raspberry liqueur will slowly sink to the bottom, so the white cocktail has a bloodred base (for a final taste sensation with bite).