Christmas Punch Recipe (non alcoholic) (2024)

Why You’ll Love this Christmas Punch Recipe

• It’s a beautiful festivedrink for any holiday party that looks sophisticated while being extremely simple to make – you only need to blend 4 main ingredients.
• This non-alcoholic deliciousholiday punch is perfect to serve to all ages but you can just as easily add in vodka or rum for a boozy drink.
• This recipe is easy to modify to suit flavor preferences and can be doubled when serving a larger crowd.

• Frozen orange juice concentrate – You’ll need one can of orange concentrate. Use your favorite brand.
• Ginger ale – This adds a lovely sparkling fizz to the Christmas punch with a kick of warm ginger flavor. If you don’t enjoy Ginger ale, use Lemon-Lime soda or Sprite.
• Cranberry juice – Use your favorite brand of cranberry juice. The cranberry juice gives this punch a lovely deep red hue and adds a tart flavor. You could also use pomegranate juice.
• Pineapple juice – This adds sweetness to the punch to balance the tart cranberry juice.
• Garnish – I’ve added whole cranberries, orange slices, and mint leaves to the Christmas punch as an attractive garnish. Feel free to add more or less of the garnish. When serving to young children, consider removing the cranberries as they could be a choking hazard.

Substitutions and Variations

• Instead of ginger ale, you could use a lemon soda.
• Mix up your garnishes with your favorite fruit slices. While I opted for orange slices, cranberries, and mint leaves, you could also use lemon and lime slices, pomegranate seeds, and a sprig of rosemary! You can also garnish with cinnamon sticks.
• Make an adult version of this non-alcoholic holiday drink. I’ve added some helpful suggestions on how to add alcohol to this drink below.

Step 1: In a large pitcher or punch bowl, pour out contents of frozen juice concentrate. Instead of adding water to the juice concentrate, measure Ginger Ale and add to the pitcher (3 cans or 36 oz. of Ginger Ale).

Step 2: Add cranberry juice and pineapple juice to pitcher. Stir to mix frozen juice concentrate into mixture.

Step 3:

Add fresh cranberries and slices of oranges to the pitcher filled with Christmas punch. Fill serving glasses with ice cubes and pour the Christmas punch over them. Garnish each glass with an assortment of fresh cranberries, mint leaves, and slices of orange.

Recipe Tips for Christmas Punch

• If you decide to serve this easyChristmas Punch in a pitcher then you’ll need one with a volume of 96 oz. for my recipe. You also have the option of easily doubling the quantity or reducing the ingredients for a smaller pitcher.
• You can substitute any kind of fruit juices, as long as they are concentrate, in this recipe depending on your preference.
• If you are using a 2-liter bottle of Ginger Ale, measure out the Ginger Ale using the empty can of juice concentrate. It’s a 1:1 substitute according to the instructions on the side of the concentrate can – we’re using Ginger Ale instead of water.
• The cranberry juice is what gives this punch its deep red color. If you want a deeper red, simply add additional cranberry juice – the flavor is still just as delicious.

Fun Fact

It’s amazing to think that some of the very first punch drinks emerged as far back as the early 1600s, albeit very different from the punch recipes we enjoy today, no doubt. The Christmas punch bowl can be attributed to Indian tradition, derived from the Hindi word “panch” which means “five” – a concoction that was originally made with five main ingredients.

Sailors from the British East India Company took this concept back home with them in the early 1600s and it spread around the globe, adapted to what we consider a punch today.

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