Champagne Holiday Punch

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 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

Recipe

• 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.