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Baby Shower Punch Recipes
Trying to find different and unique baby shower punch recipes can be difficult. You probably think of punch as juices mixed with sodas with fruit floating around in it. And that is one variety of punch. Punch is THE typical baby shower beverage; but you must make sure that it doesn’t contain alcohol as the mommy-to-be can’t drink it. I’ve tried to find punches that are not only delicious, but some are a bit different than the run of the mill punch. Check out the recipes below.
Banana Punch
4 ripe bananas
2 cups white sugar
3 cups water
1 (46 fluid ounce) can pineapple juice
2 (12 fluid ounce) cans frozen orange juice concentrate
1 (12 fluid ounce) can frozen lemonade concentrate
3 cups water
3 liters ginger ale
1. In a blender, combine bananas, sugar and 3 cups water. Blend until smooth.
2. Pour into a large bowl and stir in pineapple juice. Blend in orange juice concentrate, lemonade concentrate and 3 cups water.
3. Divide into 3 plastic containers and freeze until solid.
4. Remove from freezer 3 to 4 hours before serving.
5. Using one portion at a time, place slush in a punch bowl and pour in 1 liter of ginger ale for each.
Pink Fluffy Cloud Punch
2 (46 fluid ounce) cans fruit punch
1/4 cup grenadine syrup
1 (2 liter) bottle lemon-lime flavored carbonated beverage
1 quart vanilla ice cream
1 (16 ounce) jar maraschino cherries
1. Pour fruit punch into a large punch bowl.
2. Stir in grenadine and lemon-lime soda.
3. Add the ice cream in big scoops - it will resemble a big fluffy cloud.
4. Drop cherries on top of the cloud of ice cream and serve.
Raspberry Lemonade
1 (12 fluid ounce) can frozen raspberry lemonade concentrate
3 cups water
3/4 teaspoon lime juice
1 (12 fluid ounce) can or bottle lemon-lime flavored carbonated beverage
1 cup crushed ice
1 cup fresh raspberries, garnish
1 cup fresh mint, garnish
1. In a large punch bowl, combine raspberry lemonade concentrate, water and lime juice.
2. Stir in lemon-lime soda and crushed ice.
3. Garnish each glass with a fresh raspberry and a mint leaf.
Floating Island Punch
2 cups water
2 cups white sugar
1 (12 fluid ounce) can frozen lemonade concentrate
1 (12 fluid ounce) can frozen orange juice concentrate
1 pint orange sherbet
1 liter ginger ale
1 liter carbonated water
1 (4 ounce) jar maraschino cherries
1 orange, sliced in rounds
4 cups ice
1. Bring water to a boil. Add the sugar and boil until it becomes a syrup. Let cool.
2. In a punch bowl combine lemonade, orange juice, ginger ale, and carbonated water.
3. Mix in the sugar syrup. Add ice and sherbet.
4. Just before serving add cherries and cherry juice and float orange slices on top.
Golden Glow Fruit Punch
8 black tea bags, strings removed
4 cups cold water
4 cups apple cider
3 cups apricot nectar
1 (6 ounce) can frozen lemonade concentrate, thawed
2 (12 fluid ounce) cans or bottles cherry flavor lemon-lime carbonated beverage, chilled
1 orange, sliced into rounds
1 (4 ounce) jar maraschino cherries
1. In a large pitcher, combine tea bags and cold water. Cover, and refrigerate for 6 hours or overnight.
2. Remove tea bags, squeezing them gently against side of pitcher.
3. Stir in apple cider, apricot nectar and lemonade concentrate. Chill until ready to serve.
4. Pour punch over ice cubes in a punch bowl. Add carbonated beverage, and garnish with orange slices and cherries.
Springtime Punch
2 (3 ounce) packages lime flavored gelatin mix
1 quart hot water
1 (46 fluid ounce) can pineapple juice
2 (12 fluid ounce) cans frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed
2 cups white sugar
4 1/2 cups cold water
2 liters ginger ale
1. In a large saucepan dissolve the gelatin in 1 quart of hot water. Allow to cool.
2. When gelatin is cool, pour into a large punch bowl.
3. Stir in pineapple juice, orange juice concentrate, sugar and 4 1/2 cups cold water.
4. Pour in ginger ale just before serving.
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