This past holiday season (2008), we had quite a problem coming up with a punch to serve our guests at a holiday party.  The good part about the search is that we sampled several.  The downside is that we almost didn’t have a punch to serve because we didn’t conjure this one until the very last minute.  In the end, we received glowing reviews for it and so we wanted to share it with everyone.  We call it Holiday Cranberry Cocktail Punch and to be fair it is a modified Cosmopolitan:

• 10 oz Absolut Vodka
• 5 oz  Triple Sec
• 5 oz Rose’s Lime Juice
• 1.5 L Cranberry Canada Dry Ginger Ale
• 1.5 L Cranberry Cocktail

For presentation we served this in a punch bowl that contained clementine slices and cranberries frozen in miniature bundt cake pans.

We offered this punch, wines, beers, and liquor drinks to our guests.  This was the clear winner and we ended up making a total of 4 bowls of this for about 30 people over the course of 3.5 hours.

Dana