5 Ingredient Holiday Punch Recipe

When it’s time to host a party, do you know what you’re going to serve your guests to drink? Make this 5 ingredient holiday punch recipe with has beautiful sugared cranberries as a garnish for a festive drink fit for a crowd.

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At holiday dinners, parties and get together drinks sometimes take the back seat. You see a couple bottles of mixers and some alcohol bottles, but when was the last time you saw a punch bowl?

When you’re hosting a crowd, not having to worry about making sure everyone has a drink is such a relief.  With a punch bowl, guests can simply serve themselves a tasty drink!  Plus it serves as a great bar centerpiece.

If you don’t have a punch bowl, we love this modern one.

What ingredients do I need for this holiday drink?

1. Ice cubes – barely even counts as an ingredient right!?
2. Peach-mango juice (like this one)
3. 7Up
4. Pomegranate seeds

No festive cocktail is complete without a beautiful garnish, right!?  This sugared cranberry garnish takes maybe a total of 10 minutes – simply because of some required drying time – and it’s worth every second!

How do you make sugared cranberries?

1. Make a simple syrup (just sugar and water).
2. Coat the cranberries
3. Let them dry a bit, then coat with sugar.
4. Dry again.

This holiday punch recipe is great for a drink everyone can enjoy. This one is made with no alcohol, but of course you could add some vodka or champagne to it (adding champagne will make it like a mimosa!) Do you ever make festive holiday drink recipes?

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5 Ingredient Holiday Punch Recipe

This 5 ingredient holiday punch recipe has beautiful sugared cranberries as a garnish and the perfect festive drink to feed a group.

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Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 2 minutes minutes

Inactive Time: 1 hour hour

Total Time: 1 hour hour 12 minutes minutes

Servings: 20 people

Ingredients

For the sugared cranberries:

• 2 cups of sugar divided
• 1/2 cup water
• 8-12 ounces fresh cranberries 2-3 cups

For the punch:

• Ice cubes
• 2 cups peach-mango juice
• 1 liter 7UP
• Arils from 1 pomegranate (the little seeds)

Instructions

To make the sugared cranberries:

• Line a baking sheet with wax paper and set a wire rack on top of it, set it aside.
• Combine 1/2 cup sugar and 1/2 cup water in a deep edged pan, cook over medium-heat, stirring, until the sugar has dissolved (about 2-3 minutes). Remove from heat and stir in cranberries. Let them sit for 2 minutes, then using a slotted spoon, transfer them to the prepared wire rack. Let cool for 1 hour.
  
• In a shallow dish, pour remaining 1 1/2 cups sugar. in small batches, spoon the cranberries from the wire rack into the sugar dish and cover the cranberries with sugar and then transfer them to a plate or shallow dish. Allow the sugar to set for half an hour-to an hour.
  
• Store them in at room temperature.
• To make cocktail garnishes put 3-4 sugared cranberries on cocktail skewers.
  

To make the fruit punch:

• Put ice cubes into a punch bowl (I used about 4 cups ice cubes).
• Pour peach mango juice in, and pour 7UP soda in and stir to combine. Put pomegranate arils and 1 cup of sugared cranberries in the punch - they will float at the top.
  

Notes

The nutrition information presented on this site should be considered an estimate as the calculations will change based on the exact products you use in your own kitchen.

Nutrition

Serving: 1g | Calories: 153kcal | Carbohydrates: 39g | Protein: 1g | Sodium: 8mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 33g