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Several folks have asked for the punch recipe I mentioned in our last Party Planning post. I’m happy to share it. You’ll find a printable version of this recipe at the bottom of this post.
The Recipe:
Champagne Holiday Punch
Ingredients:
1 cup water
1/2 cup sugar
3 cinnamon sticks
4 whole cloves
2 cups cranberry juice
1/2 cup pineapple juice
1 bottle champagne (Korbel Brut works great)
Small amount of Grand Marnier (or any orange liqueur you prefer)
Red sugar
Green sugar
In a saucepan, bring water, sugar, cinnamon sticks and cloves to boil.
Reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes.
Discard cinnamon and cloves.
Cool to room temperature and pour into a large pitcher.
Add cranberry juice and pineapple juice.
Chill in fridge until ready to serve.
At serving time, add 1 bottle of chilled champagne.
If having a party, I recommend at least doubling, tripling or quadrupling this recipe, because it’s a huge hit and folks keeping coming back for more. When I had around 25 guests for a neighborhood cookie party, we went through four batches, with none left over!
When serving, put red sugar, green sugar and Grand Marnier in a three-part dish or in three separate bowls. I use this divided dish and it works out really well. Dip the rim of the champagne glass into the Grand Marnier, then into one of the sugars. Then pour the punch into the glass.
You can serve it 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 similar to the one below, that will work well, too.
Your guests will love the look of the sugar-rimmed glasses.
For large parties, I love to use little charms around the stem of the glass. I have a limited number of champagne glasses so it helps my guests keep up with their glass.
For a New Year’s Eve party or a birthday party, I like to dip the rims of the glasses in nonpareils, instead of the the colored sugars.
I’ve placed the glass in front of the paper towels so you can get a better look…
Doesn’t this just say, Party!
- 1 cup water
- ½ cup sugar
- 3 cinnamon sticks
- 4 whole cloves
- 2 cups cranberry juice
- ½ cup pineapple juice
- 1 bottle champagne (Korbel Brut works great)
- Small amount of Grand Marnier (or any orange liqueur you prefer)
- Red sugar
- Green sugarI
- In a saucepan, bring water, sugar, cinnamon sticks and cloves to boil.
- Reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes.
- Discard cinnamon and cloves.
- Cool to room temperature and pour into a large pitcher.
- Add cranberry juice and pineapple juice.
- Chill in fridge until ready to serve.
- At serving time, add 1 bottle of chilled champagne.
Enjoy!
these glasses say party! I will try them at my next family eating! we just celebrated 3 out of 4 kids birthdays wish I had seen it for them! they were big kids, 30,21,and 18…
thanks, love your blog
What a pretty & yummy idea!
thanks : )
What a lovely cocktail! I love the sprinkles around the rim!
It does say FUN! I love the rimmed glasses and the charms too. I want to make this! It looks yummy!
Thanks for posting! Looks so good and the sugar accents make it so festive!
I am definitely keeping this recipe for my holiday dinner and party. I just love how you changed the sugar to a different item. Oh so many ways you could go with that idea.
Thanks for sharing.
Crystal
Susan,
These look so festive dipped in the nonpareils and colored sugars. Recipe sounds yummy too!
Nancy
How cute is that? Love the sprinkles on the rim. What a very festive idea!
Hi Susan,
this is really a great fun. Splendid idea to make the sugar rim with colored sugar or nonpareilles. The recipe sounds interesting and I imagine that it smells like punch. Thank you for sharing your great ideas.
Greetings, Johanna
Love this! Will be adding this to my list of must have party drinks!
Kristen
I love this idea! I hope you don't mind if I recreate it for parties at my cottage!!
Love,
Susan and Bentley
xxoo
Susan, I love the nonpareils idea, so festive. This is one thing I will definitely copy.
How fun! Great recipe:)
Hi Susan! Been a little while since I have been on here. Your party ideas are so great and look like alot of fun. Thank you for sharing the recipe. I can't wait to try it.
Cheryl@My Own Snug Fireside
These look yummy. Might even host a cookie party so I can make this punch. Thanks for sharing the recipe!~Ames
Saved!!! Thanks Susan…I was about to give away three boxes of these champaigne flutes….not anymore. Just hadn't used them in a while. This is so simple that the cut crystal flutes just wouldn't work as well. Wondering if you could use a bottle of Asti instead of champaigne.
Looking forward to more of your holiday tips and tricks.
Thanks, Gwen
Yummy! I can't wait to try it! Thanks for sharing with us!
Thank you soooooo much! We are having a Holiday Extravaganza at the salon and I plan to use this idea!! You are amazing!!
The glasses look gorgeous. I image this could be done with my Sleigh Ride punch – a combination of juices, tea, spices and Rum. I make it on Christmas Eve morning, letting it brew all day in a crock pot in anticipation for our annual open house in the evening. I keep adding rum, taste testing throughout the day, By party time I'm extraordinarily festive. I think I will decorate my glasses with colored sugars from now on!
This looks beautifully refreshing and perfect for the holidays! Love the nonpariel idea.
Hi Susan,
So festive…I love it.
Evelyn
Thank you, thank you! I will make this for our Oopen House! I also love the non pariel idea too! So festive and fun!!!!
Love these ideas!
I really love the unusual pinks you shared with me today. Yummy. Happy Pink Saturday.
I do martini's alot and do the rimmers but this is different and one that I will for sure use, thank you for so much holdiay creativity!
I am so inspired! Those photos look heavenly!
Made this Friday night for our annual neighborhood Holiday Party.
It got RAVE reviews and a request to make it again for Saturday's Cookie Swap. Thanks a million for an EASY, WONDERFUL treat!!
I love your blog! When I was scrolling down to find your Twitter widget/link I saw these drinks and fell in love – what a great treat for the holidays.
I made your champagne punch and served it before a luncheon I hosted yesterday! It was a true hit, and oh so very delicious! The addition of using the red and green sugars to rim the champagne glasses is a very nice detail! Thank you for sharing this with us! Loved it! It's a recipe that goes straight to my favorites file!
It sounds yummmy..I must give it a try…Happy New Year…come over for a visit..I have my table all ready…phyllis
Hi Susan, as I mentioned in yesterday's email, I'm having a cocktail party this evening (pre-New Years party with neighbors) but forgot about this wonderful recipe from last year until I saw your post! Now I "need" to make this as one of the drinks for tonight! I think I'll do the colored sprinkles, because it just say's "Happy New Year" to me!
Thanks again for all your great ideas and inspiration!
Terry