favorite punch/party drink recipe

[calv]

keep it virgin please for the sake of the kids. ;P We're doing a halloween party and obviously it doen't have to be the the color of halloween. Throwing in a couple of frozen hands to make the punch look festive.

w/that said, i need yorur favorite recipe please. =)

[ohiomom1121]

I just went to a baby shower where they served this...it was very good. It's a yellowish color...would be even better with the floating hands!!!

White Sparkling Punch
2 24 oz bottles white grape juice
46 oz pineapple juice
2 liter ginger ale, chilled

[luvmypeanut]

I did a huge batch of pomegranate-lychee martini in a punchbowl last year with canned lychees stuffed with a blueberry for eyeballs. I've also substituted V8-Splash for the kiddie version. This year I'll have to try the frozen hands.

[Melaine]

This may not be right for a Halloween party, but I LOVE coffee punch. If anyone wants the recipe let me know, and I will hunt it down.

[lizzywednesday]

My aunt used to make something she called a "fizzy" ... you basically take a bottle of fruit punch, add orange sherbet and top it off with seltzer or Sprite to make it "fizz" ... and it can be done the day-of shortly before guests arrive if you like.

I've been considering making something like this for a friend's party next weekend, but would have to find ingredients without HFCS as that makes me quite ill at the moment!

I also have a hibiscus sangria recipe that might be adaptable so it's a "mocktail" rather than a "cocktail," but I would totally have to think about it some to help you figure it out. (I got the recipe last year from TheNest.com ...)

[etaylor75]

This may not be right for a Halloween party, but I LOVE coffee punch. If anyone wants the recipe let me know, and I will hunt it down.

I'd love the coffee punch recipe if you have time!!

Erin

[jenny]

If you want to stay away from the soda to avoid HFCS, you could do a combination of orange juice and cranberry juice and put slices of oranges in the punch to make it festive.

[Melaine]

I'd love the coffee punch recipe if you have time!!

Erin

I found it: This pretty much tastes like a frappuccino.

2 oz instant coffee (I usually use Decaf)
2 cups boiling water
1 cup sugar
1 gallon milk
1/2 gallon chocolate ice cream
1/2 gallon vanilla ice cream
2 cups whipping cream or cool whip

Add coffee and sugar to boiling water. Chill it (usually do this the day ahead and stick it in the fridge). Add 1 gallon milk and ice cream (you need to leave it on the counter for an hour or so first to soften up). Mix it all thoroughly and put a huge dollop of whip cream on the top.

If you are making this for a party, I find it works to buy 2 half chocolate half vanilla ice cream cartons (I think Breyers). Then I make 1/2 the recipe at a time otherwise my punchbowl doesn't really hold it all with room to stir. If that makes sense....