After munching on all your favorite Halloween recipes, all the ghosts and goblins at your Halloween party are going to be thirsty.   A tall glass of Halloween punch or homemade witches’ brew will certainly hit the spot.  At my Halloween party, I like to fill up a big punch bowl and let guests serve themselves.

Here are a two Halloween punch recipes that will keep even a big crowd of monsters happy.

Bewitching Fruit Punch

• 4 cups ice
• 1 1/2 cups water
• 1 can (12 oz.) frozen cranberry juice drink concentrate
• 1/2 cup lime juice
• 2 cans (12 oz.) lemon and/or lime flavored soda or sparkling water

Combine ice, lime juice, water, and cranberry drink concentrate in a blender, and blend on high speed until ice is finely chopped.  Pour mixture into punch bowl, and add lemon/lime soda. Garnish with fresh lime slices. Source:  Land O’ Lakes.

Ghoul-Aid

This recipe makes a spooky black Halloween punch.

• 1 packet of powdered grape drink mix
• 1 packet of powdered orange drink mix
• 2 cups sugar
• 3 quarts of water
• 1 liter of ginger ale

Combine sugar, water, and drink packets and stir until well blended. Pour into punch bowl, and add ginger ale just before serving.

Add a frozen hand:  If you want to add a floating ice hand to this Halloween punch, simply fill a clean rubber glove with water, knot the end to close it, and freeze.  Remove ice hand from glove, and float it in the punch.

Like the punch bowl in the photo?  I found it at Neiman Marcus.