Halloween is right around the corner, and there are a variety of ways to create spooky cocktails and non-alcoholic drink treats for your bar and restaurant guests using Sun Orchard’s citrus juices. Don’t trick your customers with dressed-up, artificial, low-quality ingredients—use only the purest fruit juice products made from the best fruit, juiced in the safest conditions. Forget stuffing your face with candy—these tasty drinks made with Sun Orchard juices are so sip-worthy, it’s spooky.
DonQ Bloody Rum Punch
(from http://cocktails.about.com/od/rumrecipes/r/Donq-Bloody-Rum-Punch.htm)
Ingredients
1 750ml bottle of DonQ Cristal rum
1/2 bottle red wine
6 ounces Sun Orchard’s 100% Lime Juice
6 ounces triple sec liqueur
6 ounces simple syrup
2 limes sliced in thin wheels
2 red oranges sliced in thin wheels
Directions
Add all ingredients into a large punch bowl and place in the refrigerator for at least two hours before serving. Serve over ice in a punch glass.
Yields 1 punch bowl.
Creepy Crawler Punch
(from http://www.drinkoftheweek.com/drink-recipes/creepy-crawler-punch-2/)
Ingredients
4 cups of White Rum
4 cups of Maui Blue Hawaiian Schnapps
1 gallon of Sun Orchard’s 100% Orange Juice
Directions
Combine ingredients in a large punch bowl with a block of ice in the center. Drape with jelly worms, spiders or whatever you can get your hands on. Dry ice makes a nice fog effect.
Vampire Blood Drink
(from http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/michael-chiarello/vampire-blood-drink-recipe/index.html)
Ingredients
1 gallon cranberry juice
1 gallon Sun Orchard’s 100% Orange Juice
1 cup raspberry sorbet
1 quart seltzer
Directions
Mix the juices together. Add the sorbet, softened, and stir until it disappears. Add the seltzer. Before serving, chill with ice cubes.
The Zombie
(from http://thestir.cafemom.com/food_party/127837/5_halloween_cocktails_to_spook)
Ingredients
10 ounces Sun Orchard’s 100% Orange Juice
4 ounces Sun Orchard’s 100% Lemon Juice
4 ounces Sun Orchard’s 100% Lime Juice
6 ounces apricot brandy
6 ounces light rum
6 ounces dark rum
2 ounces Grenadine
Pineapple wedges for garnish
Directions
Pour all ingredients over a large pitcher of ice and stir until chilled. Fill 10 glasses with crushed ice and strain the mixture out of the large pitcher into the glass. Garnish with pineapple wedges and drink until you’re undead.
Yields 10 Zombies.
Dark and Stormies
(from http://www.delish.com/recipefinder/dark-and-stormies-cocktail-recipes)
Ingredients
16 cups ginger beer
4 cups dark rum
½ cup Sun Orchard’s 100% Lime Juice
Thinly sliced lime, for garnish
Directions
To make ginger beer ice cubes, pour 8 cups ginger beer into 4 ice cube trays and freeze. Stir ginger beer, rum and lime juice in a pitcher. Serve in tall cocktail glasses with 3 or 4 ice cubes each; garnish with lime.