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 recent 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. 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.
Your guests will love the look of the sugar rimmed glasses...they will ooh and aah and demand the recipe!
For large parties, I love to use the little charms around the stem of the glass. I have a limited number of champagne glasses so it helps my guest keep up with their glass. And, I just love the way they look.
This would probably even be great for a a wedding shower in the spring, using a pastel colored sugar around the rims.
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.
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I've placed the glass in front of the paper towels so you can get a better look...
Doesn't this just say, FUN?!
Happy New Year!
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