Halloween Punch with Eyeballs
This easy Halloween punch only calls for common ingredients and doesn't have any added sweetener or any artificial ingredients. Can be made with or without alcohol.
Ingredients
Punch:
- 1 quart (4 cups - 950 ml) 100% pineapple juice
- 1 quart (4 cups - 950 ml) 100% blood orange juice
- 3 cups (710 ml) 100% apple juice
- 1/3 cup (80 ml) 100% lime juice
- 3 cups (710 ml) white rum or more - omit for an alcohol-free version
- ice, optional - better is to use frozen lychee eyeballs
Eyeballs (see notes for amounts):
- canned lychees
- blueberries
Instructions
- Prepare the eyeballs. Place a blueberry in the middle of each lychee. If desired, place two on a skewer to make a set of eyes. Keep refrigerated until ready to serve or use as ice cubes (highly recommended). To do that, lay the assembled eyeballs in a single layer on a tray and freeze for about 1-2 hours or until solid. Keep them in a freezer-proof container until ready to serve.
- It's recommended to freeze the juice bottles and rum in the freezer for a few hours before serving. Shortly before serving, mix all the punch ingredients together. Keep chilled until ready to serve.
Notes
You'll probably need 2 cans of lychees.
You need to decide how big your servings will be before you know how many lychees and blueberries you'll need. For each eyeball, you need 1 lychee + 1 blueberries.
This recipe yields 11 1/3 cups of punch if omitting the rum. If you add the rum, you'll have 14 1/3 cups of punch.
11 1/3 cups of alcohol-free punch = 18 servings of 5-ounces (.625 cups) each.
If you want to use 5-ounce servings, you'll need 18 lychees + 18 blueberries for 1 eyeball per drink. If you want a pair of eyeballs per serving, you'll need 36 lychees + 36 blueberries.
If adding rum, you'll have 23 5-ounce servings. You'll need 23 lychees + 23 blueberries for each serving for 1 eyeball or double that for a pair of eyeballs per drink.