Delicious! A frozen ‘hand’ provides the perfect amount of spookiness, as it does with any Halloween punch! The mixture of hues creates a delightfully spooky appearance!
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Additional Time: | 50 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr |
| Servings: | 32 |
| Yield: | 1 gallon |
Ingredients
- 1 (.13 ounce) envelope unsweetened grape soft drink mix
- 1 (.13 ounce) envelope unsweetened orange soft drink mix
- 2 cups white sugar
- 3 quarts cold water
- 1 liter ginger ale
Instructions
- To make a frozen hand, wash a disposable glove, fill with water, seal with a rubber band and freeze until hard.
- Stir together grape soft drink mix, orange soft drink mix, sugar and water until solids are dissolved. Combine with chilled ginger ale just before serving. Dip the frozen hand briefly in warm water, then peel off the glove. Float the prepared hand in the punch bowl for a ghastly effect.
Reviews
Not good, tasted like sugar water. The color wasn’t as black as I’d hoped. I will not make again. Maybe good for a kids party but not for adults.
Made double the requested amount. Turned out good. But kids ages 5 to 10 just love the sugar. One 7 year old girl wouldn’t drink it because of the hand lol.
i will make it again
Great tasting punch and looked great too with dark color as pictured. Next time will use 1/2 the sugar though. Also the frozen hand was tricky. The glove didn’t seem to fill up evenly and fingers broke trying to remove the glove but still looked good with 2 fingers (it is Halloween after all and a ‘severed hand’). Next time may look for ice tray mold .
Made this for an all ages party. We mixed it with just the water in one big bowl and added sprite or ginger ale to cups for the kids, and with lime flavored hard seltzer for the adults!
this recipe does great but the punch is actually a dark brown color. to make it black i add a few drops of black food coloring. it tasted great though!
Was a big hit with adults and kids!
This stuff was aweful! Followed recipe to a T. It was a brown color. My guests went and got something else to drink and poured this out.
This can have vodka or vanilla vodka added to make it as strong as you’d like. A double batch satisfied our party of about 30 with other drink options available. It looks cool and tastes fine. I thought it tasted a little bit like bubble gum with the vanilla vodka. Orange kool aid was a bit difficult to find at our local Safeway.
The taste was ok
It was ok I would not recamend it to my friends , but it looks SOOOOOOOOOOO cool.
Pretty good. I served this at our block party and called it Black Cat Punch. Several of us adults drank it but not so many kids. Perhaps the color put them off. ??
Tasted like bad grape soda- looked like the water in the cup after you rinse off a paintbrush. Not very ‘punch-like’.
DON’T DOUBLE MAKES WAY TOO MUCH
DARK FRUIT PUNCH SO GOOD AND TASTY I LOVE IT SO MUCH I LOVE FRUIT PUNCH GOOD FOR YOU
I added a little whipped cream vodka for an adult party! Yummy!
Everyone really loved this punch last night for the Halloween dinner. It was very easy to make with things I keep on hand. Thanks Kathleen.
Made it for a party last night and ran out! Replaced the ginger ale with club soda and vodka and put limes in it to cut the sweetness. I will triple the recipe next year.
YUM YUM !!!
Great!!!
Great recipe – We add a couple cups of Blueberry juice cocktail to darken things up a bit. I’ve also substituted orange soda when I couldn’t find the orange Kool-Aid and it was yummy and extra fizzy! I use Cherry Kool-Aid for the hands to make them both bloody in appearance and keep the punch from diluting as they melt. I find that using a plastic cup as a holder for the hand as it freezes makes it less likely to make a mess in the freezer and gives the fingers a lovely ‘claw-like’ appearance.