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Prep Time: 15 Minutes Cook Time: 10 Minutes |
Ready In: 25 Minutes Servings: 6 |
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A wonderful champagne punch for Thanksgiving, Christmas, or New Year's Eve celebrations! Or for a special birthday. Serves about 4 people; for larger groups, I recommend doubling, tripling or even quadrupling the recipe. For a New Year's Eve party or a birthday party, I like to use nonpareils in place of the colored sugar that I use at Christmastime. Recipe found online. Ingredients:
1 cup water |
1/2 cup sugar |
3 cinnamon sticks |
4 whole cloves |
2 cups cranberry juice |
1/2 cup pineapple juice |
1 (750 ml) bottle champagne (korbel brut works great) |
1 small amount grand marnier (or any orange liqueur you prefer) |
red sugar |
green sugar |
Directions:
1. In a saucepan, bring water, sugar, cinnamon sticks and cloves to boil.
2. Reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes.
3. Discard cinnamon and cloves.
4. Cool to room temperature and pour into a large pitcher.
5. Add cranberry juice and pineapple juice, stirring well to combine.
6. Chill in fridge until ready to serve.
7. At serving time, add 1 bottle of chilled champagne.
8. When you get ready to serve this punch, just pour a little Grand Marnier or any orange liqueur into a shallow dish. Pour some colored sugar (or nonpareils) into a bowl.
9. Dip the rim of the champagne glass into the Grand Marnier, then into the bowl of colored sugar or nonpareils. Then pour the punch into the glass.
10. Helpful Tip: You can serve the punch from a punch bowl and ladle it into the glass, but since the opening of a champagne glass is so small this can be pretty messy with the punch ending up running down the sides of the glass. I found it's much easier to just pour it from a pitcher. Or, if you have a beverage server with a spout, that will work well, too.
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