If you're planning a New Year's Eve party for the whole family -- or for people who don't drink -- here are some of my favorite punch recipes.

  • 1

    Luscious Slush Punch

    1-2 cups of white sugar (to taste)
    6 cups of water
    2 (3 oz.) packages of strawberry-flavored gelatin.
    1 can (46 fl. oz.) pineapple juice
    2/3 cup lemon juice
    1 quart orange juice
    2 (2 liter) bottles of lemon-lime soda

    Boil the sugar, water and gelatin. Stir in the juice. Freeze in ice cube trays. Then add to soda in a punch bowl and stir until slushy.

  • 2

    Easy Orange Dream Punch

    Combine 1/2 gallon of orange sherbet, 1 two-liter bottle of ginger ale and 1 can (6 oz.) can of frozen orange juice concentrate.

  • 3

    Island Punch

    2 cups of water
    2 cups of white sugar
    1 (12 oz) can frozen lemonade concentrate
    1 (12 oz) can frozen orange juice concentrate
    1 pint orange sherbet
    1 liter ginger ale
    1 liter carbonated water
    1 jar maraschino cherries
    1 orange sliced in rounds
    4 cups of ice

    Boil the water and sugar until a syrup. Combine juices, water and ginger ale. Add sugar syrup. Add ice and sherbet. Add floating orange rounds with cherries on top.

  • 4

    Baby Blue Punch

    1 package of blue unsweetened drink mix
    1 two-liter bottle of lemon-lime soda
    1 (64 oz) bottle white cranberry juice
    8 scoops vanilla ice cream
    1 cup white sugar (to taste)

    Add all ingredients but add the sugar last to sweeten to taste. Add the ice cream early enough that it melts a little, but not completely.

  • 5

    Golden Wedding Punch

    1 (12 oz) can frozen orange juice concentrate
    1 (46 oz) can sweetened pineapple juice
    1 3/4 cup lemon juice
    1 gallon water
    2 cups white sugar

    Combine and stir

  • 6

    Apple Orchard Punch

    1 (32 oz) bottle apple juice chilled
    1 (12 oz) can frozen cranberry juice concentrate
    1 cup orange juice
    2 liter bottle of ginger ale
    1 apple sliced in thin rounds to float on top

    Combine and serve chilled.

  • 7

    Sparkling Punch

    2 lemons sliced in rounds
    3 large oranges sliced in rounds
    1 (6 oz) can frozen lemonade concentrate
    1 liter club soda
    2 bottles of sparkling apple cider
    1 tablespoon white sugar
    2 trays of ice cubes

    Allow the juice concentrate to melt. Combine all ingredients, add sugar to taste, add fruit rounds to float on top.

  • 8

    "Black" Punch

    1 envelope/package of unsweetened grape drink mix
    1 package of unsweetened orange drink mix
    1 liter of ginger ale
    2 cups white sugar
    3 quarts cold water

    Combine ingredients, stir and chill.

  • 9

    Aileen's Punch

    1 (46 oz) can pineapple juice
    1 (46 oz) can apricot nectar
    1 (6 oz) can frozen limeade concentrate
    2 liter-bottle of lemon-lime flavored soda

    Set some juice aside to freeze into an ice ring to float on top. Combine and serve.

  • 10

    Jolly Rancher Punch

    1 gallon Berry Blue Typhoon "Hawaiian Punch"
    6-8 scoops Country Time Lemonade mix

    Mix, stir and pour half into ice cube trays to freeze. Combine all elements before serving.

  • 11

    Snow Princess Punch

    1 cup mini marshmallows
    1/2 cup decorating sugar
    1/2 cup castor sugar
    Lemon slices
    2 liter-bottle of fruit-flavored sparkling water
    2 cups frozen blueberries or strawberries

    Keep the fruit frozen. Freeze the marshmallows.
    Combine the sugar in a flat plate. Use the lemon slices to give party glasses a sticky rim around the top. Dip those rims into the sugar to look like salt on a cocktail or margarita glass.
    In a punch bowl add the fruit-flavored sparkling water, frozen marshmallows and frozen fruit. Serve in the sugar-rimmed party glasses.

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