This fruity cocktail mixture with hints of fizzing ginger ale, cranberry juice, orange juice, apple cider, and bourbon makes a simple New Year’s punch recipe for a holiday party.
Splashes of bourbon mix in seamlessly with orange and cranberry juices while a splash of apple cider adds wintry fruity holiday flavor. Finish it all off with a generous splash of bubbly from a chilled bottle of champagne.
Finish off this festive drink by floating orange slices, green apple slices, and fresh cranberries over this easy New Year’s eve punch.
A Bright, Bubbly, and Fruity Holiday Punch REcipe
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If you’re looking for a simple but lovely holiday punch recipe, then try this easy party punch recipe that comes together with just 6 main ingredients.
You can have this easy punch recipe ready for a holiday season party in just minutes. It’s so easy to splash it together, stir, and garnish. With just a few ingredients you’ll have cocktails for a crowd just in time for that blowout New Year’s eve party!
The only extra ingredients I recommend in addition to the juices, spirits, and bubbly in this easy champagne punch recipe, are the fresh cranberries, sliced apple, and cinnamon sugar.
If desired, dress up your punch cups a bit. You can swipe them with an orange wedge and dip them in a mix of cinnamon sugar. A little skewer with fresh cranberries pulls the rest of the look together.
Serve this easy party Punch at Christmas Or New Year’s Eve
The fruity flavor and hit of bourbon plus sparkling wine make this delicious drink a real crowd pleaser at any festive New Year’s party (or even at Christmas). The same flavors in here work nicely when served as a fruity bourbon Christmas punch recipe.
Instead of lemon-lime soda or Sprite type pop, I find that a touch of good-tasting ginger ale lends a more special seasonal taste and makes the flavor of your punch a bit more elegant. This along with the chilled sparkling wine really make it nice and cold, colorful, and delicious. Here’s what you’ll need to splash this festive New Years eve party punch together for the special occassion.
Ingredients To Make a Fruity New Year’s Punch Recipe
- Bourbon – your favorite good quality Kentucky straight bourbon
- Cranberry juice – I used Langer’s cranberry Juice
- Ginger ale – I used Canada Dry ginger ale
- Apple cider – chilled
- Orange juice – I used chilled Simply Orange juice
- Champagne or Prosecco – chilled dry/unsweetened brut style sparkling wine
- Cranberries – whole fresh or frozen cranberries for garnish
- Orange Slices for garnish
- Green apple slices for garnish
How To Make a Sparkling New Years Punch with Bourbon and Fruit Juice
How To serve this easy Fruity Holiday Punch
To serve, swipe a punch glass with a wedge of fresh orange and dip in a mixture of cinnamon sugar. You can buy a bottle of cinnamon sugar mix. You can also easily make your own by mixing a tablespoon or more as desired of white sugar with generous pinches of cinnamon on a flat plate. Stir to combine and dip.
Add a little fresh ice to your punch cups along with a skewer of fresh cranberries, if desired. Ladle the cocktail mixture into the cups over the fresh ice and serve the punch cold.
To make this simple New Year’s eve party punch for more people, it’s easy to double the recipe. Use your measuring cups (or a pyrex glass measuring cup). Just splash in 2 measures of everything and serve in a wider large punch bowl.
Enjoy this fruity holiday bourbon punch mixture at Christmas and especially at a fun New Year’s eve party. Serve alongside all your favorite NYE finger foods! It’s so much easier to entertain and toast to a happy New Year when you’ve got cocktails figured out in advance!
Keep this easy punch recipe handy for your next celebration along with this sparkling rose gold New Year’s eve cocktail and these fun midnight New Year’s eve coffee shots! You can’t have a party without a theme, so don’t forget to eyeball my quick list of New Year’s Eve party themes.
Fruity Red Cranberry Apple Orange New Years Punch Recipe
Ingredients
- ¾ cup Bourbon - your favorite good quality bourbon – 3/4 cup to 1 cup as desired to taste
- 1½ cup Cranberry Juice - such as Langer's cranberry juice or Ocean Spray
- 1 cup Ginger Ale - such as Canada Dry
- 1 cup Apple Cider - 100% pure apple cider
- â…“ cup Orange Juice - such as Simply Orange Juice
- 1¼ cup Champagne or Prosecco - brut style / dry unsweet variety
- ½ cup Cranberries - whole fresh or frozen cranberries for garnish
- 5 slices Orange - fresh sliced orange wheels for garnish and floating on top
- 5 slices Green Apple - fresh sliced apple for garnish and floating on top
- 1 tbsp Cinnamon Sugar Mix - optional – for rimming punch cups
Instructions
- To make this easy holiday punch start by grabbing a medium punch bowl plus ladle or a pitcher so you can splash a few ingredients in.
- Splash in the bourbon, cranberry juice, apple cider, and orange juice and give it a stir.
- ​Next, splash in the sparkling ingredients.  Splash in the ginger ale and the dry brut style champagne or sparkling prosecco wine (unsweet variety of bubbly wine).  Give everything one more gentle stir.
- ​Finish the punch recipe by floating thin green apple slices, thin orange wheels, and cranberries on top of punch.
- To serve, swipe a punch glass with a wedge of fresh orange and dip in a mixture of cinnamon sugar. Â You can buy a bottle of cinnamon sugar mix or make your own by mixing a tablespoon of white sugar with generous pinches of cinnamon on a flat plate. Â Stir to combine and dip. Â
- Add a little fresh ice to your punch cups along with a skewer of fresh cranberries, if desired. Â Ladle the cocktail mixture into the cups over the fresh ice and serve the punch cold.
