Jingle Juice
Raise a sparkly-rimmed glass of this jingle juice to bring together bright fruit flavors and effervescent joy for a holiday-worthy punch.
🔍 Recipe At-A-Glance: Jingle Juice
- ⏱ Prep Time: Ready in 5 minutes flat
- ❤️ Flavor Profile: Sparkly, festive, sweet-tart red punch.
- 🎄 Good For: A festive Christmas cocktail for livening up your holiday parties, providing a cool-down in a crowded celebration.
- 🧡 Difficulty: Easy. Just pour and stir!
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🧡 Why You'll Love This Recipe
Hiya friend: I adore a good hot cocktail (hi, wassail), especially around the holidays, but when it comes to a raucous Christmas party packed with folks rocking around the Christmas tree? Hand me a cup of something cool, frosty, and refreshing with my Christmas sugar cookies so I can keep partying without breaking a sweat...like this Jingle Juice!
Here's why you'll love this recipe:
- Holiday party fave: My Jingle Juice is the perfect Christmas punch to serve at any holiday party...it's just as pretty as my ruby-red cranberry tart recipe!
- Chill out: Just like my pink rosé wine sangria recipe, this jingle juice is cool, sweet, bubbly, and beautifully festive in a punch bowl or drink dispenser.
- So simple: And maybe the best part about Jingle Juice is just how incredibly simple it is to make! Just pour together a few ingredients, give it a swirl, and-TADA!-you've made a drink that'll be the talk of Christmas! Let me show you how.
🎄 The Ingredients You Need
- Chilled cranberry juice: Look for the unsweetened stuff, not the cranberry cocktail.
- Chilled moscato: I recommend red moscato, but white or pink will work too.
- Frozen cranberries: Much tastier than ice cubes, and they won't dilute your punch as they defrost!
- Limes and fresh mint leaves: Add a festive pop of green color and a bright flavor.
Make sure to check the recipe card below for the full ingredients list, along with quantities and my expert tips and tricks.
🔁 Variations & Substitutions
- Kid-friendly punch: To make this non-alcoholic, just replace the moscato with a second bottle of sparkling cider or juice, leave out the vodka, and add ⅔ cup of orange juice in place of the Cointreau or Triple Sec.
- A kiss of winter: For peak holiday festiveness, we recommend running a lime wedge around the outside of your punch glasses and then tapping it into a saucer full of white sugar. This tastes great and makes the glass look like it was snow-kissed!
🥣 Jingle Juice How-To
Step 1: Stir the frozen cranberries with the cranberry juice, moscato, Cointreau or Triple Sec, vodka, and apple cider or grape juice.
A punch bowl is classic, but I also love to serve this Christmas punch in a glass drink dispenser. You can see the festive, sparkly jingle juice inside, but the spigot filters out the fruit and lime when you serve it.
Step 2: Taste to see if you want to adjust the alcohol levels. Then layer the mint leaves and lime slices on top of the punch. That's all it takes to make this jingle juice recipe!
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🙋🏻♀️ Jingle Juice FAQs
My jingle juice recipe is a festive, colorful punch made of a mix of alcohols (vodka, moscato, and orange liqueur, in this case) and fruit juices (I see you, cranberry and apple/grape juices). For a bourbon based punch, try my whiskey punch!
Christmas cocktail ideas vary almost as much as Christmas cookie ideas do! Whether you love classic eggnog, refreshing limoncello martinis, comforting hot buttered rum, or fancy peppermint martinis, there's a Christmas cocktail for everyone. Jingle Juice punch is the perfect cocktail for cooling down a holiday crowd!
If you've successfully kept your jingle juice cold through the whole party, the leftover punch can be stashed in the fridge for up to two weeks. Stash any leftover punch in the fridge and drink it within two weeks. If the punch sits out particularly long and gets warm, you probably won't get the two full weeks out of it.
👩🏻🍳 My Expert Tips & Tricks
- Cool off: The chilled alcohol, juice, and cranberries help keep the punch chilled for quite a while, but for a longer party, you can also make a punch ring and place it in the punch. Here's a beautiful cranberry ring that would go perfectly with this Christmas punch! It may not fit in a drink dispenser, but it would absolutely fit in most punch bowls.
- Not to scale: This punch is tricky to scale down. Instead, I recommend making an entire batch and keeping it stashed in the fridge for easy sipping all holiday season. It should last at least 2 weeks in the fridge.
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📖 Recipe
Jingle Juice
Ingredients
- 3 cups chilled cranberry juice 100% juice versions sweetened with fruit juice preferred
- 750 mL chilled moscato red preferred, but white or pink work, too
- ⅔ cup Cointreau or Triple Sec
- 1 cup vodka plus more to taste
- 25 ounces chilled sparkling apple cider or grape juice
- 2 cups frozen cranberries
- 3 limes cut into thin slices
- ¼ cup small fresh mint leaves
Instructions
- In a large punch bowl or a drink dispenser, combine the cranberry juice, moscato, Cointreau or Triple Sec, vodka, apple cider or grape juice, and frozen cranberries. Stir well to combine.
- Taste the punch, and add additional vodka, if desired.
- Layer the lime slices and mint leaves on top. Serve into punch glasses with a ladle.
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Notes
- To make the glasses look frosty and wintery, rim them with sugar by running a lime wedge along the rim of a glass before filling. Place sugar in a saucer, and then place the rim of the glass in the sugar. Fill with punch and enjoy!
- The chilled liquids and cranberries will keep the punch chilled for a while, but for long-lasting chilling power, make a cranberry punch ring. Take a Bundt pan (silicone is easiest to remove the ice, but a metal one works, too) and pour in cranberry juice until it reaches about ⅓ up the sides. Freeze flat. When it's time to serve your punch, remove the punch ring from the Bundt pan-pop it out of the silicone, or place the metal ring in hot water for 10 seconds to loosen-and then put the ice ring into the punch. It'll keep it cold without watering it down!
This was a hit at our big holiday gathering. I love using frozen fruit instead of ice for more flavor!