Best Apple Cider Punch Recipes

Blain’s Farm & Fleet’s Coffee Pot Apple Cider Punch

This hot apple cider punch recipe from Blain’s Farm & Fleet uses your coffee maker. You can use apple juice instead of apple cider, and this recipe will still taste great!

If you’re like us, you always come home from your apple picking trip with a lot of extra apples and apple cider. We’ll help you make sure nothing goes to waste!

If you’re looking for something different to serve during your holiday get-togethers, try these hot apple cider punch recipes.

Apple cider punch is sure to become a family favorite for every Christmas and New Year’s at your house. Not only is it delicious, but it’s very simple.

Apple cider punch recipes can be served hot or cold, and some substitute apple juice for apple cider.

Ingredients

• 6 cups apple cider (homemade apple cider is best) or juice
• 1 cup cranberry juice
• 1 cup orange juice
• 8 cinnamon sticks

Combine all the ingredients in your coffee maker and heat the mixture until it’s steaming hot.

Kick back and let this hot punch warm you up as the weather cools down.

Makes: 10 servings
Serving Size: 6 ounces
Yields: About 8 cups
Start to Finish: 10-15 minutes

Better Homes and Gardens’ Apple Cider Punch

This apple cider punch recipe from Better Homes and Gardens uses sparkling grape juice to give it a little carbonated bite.

This punch is perfect for serving right before or alongside Thanksgiving dinner.

Ingredients

• 6 cups apple cider, chilled
• 2 cups orange juice, cranberry-raspberry juice, or orange-mango juice, chilled
• 1/2 cup lemon juice, chilled
• 1 bottle sparkling white grape juice, chilled

Combine all of the ingredients in a large punch bowl.

Add the sparkling grape juice slowly.

Serve immediately.

You may need a ladle to serve it with.

Makes: 15 servings
Serving Size: 6 ounces
Yields: About 11-1/2 cups
Start to Finish: 5 minutes

Taste of Home’s Spiced Cider Punch

This spiced apple cider punch recipe from Taste of Home uses cinnamon, allspice, and ginger ale for a unique and delicious flavor.

Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• 2 quarts apple cider or juice, divided
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ground allspice
• 1 can (12 ounces) frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed
• 1 quart ginger ale, chilled

In a dutch oven, combine the sugar, 1 cup of cider, the cinnamon, and the allspice.

Cook the mixture and stir over medium heat until sugar is dissolved.

Remove the oven from the heat; add orange juice concentrate and remaining cider.

Cool.

Cover and refrigerate until chilled.

Just before serving, transfer to a punch bowl; stir in ginger ale.

Makes: About 15-17 servings
Serving Size: 6 ounces
Yields: About 13 cups
Start to Finish: 2 hours

Allrecipes’ Hot Apple Cider

If you want a more complex hot apple cider to try, Allrecipes has you covered with their classic hot apple cider recipe.

Ingredients

• 6 cups apple cider
• ¼ cup real maple syrup
• 2 cinnamon sticks
• 6 whole cloves
• 6 whole allspice berries
• 1 orange peel, cut into strips
• 1 lemon peel, cut into strips

Pour the apple cider and maple syrup into a large saucepan.

Place the cinnamon sticks, cloves, allspice berries, orange peel, and lemon peel in the center of a square of washed cheesecloth; fold up the sides of the cheesecloth to enclose the bundle, then tie it up with a length of kitchen string. Drop the spice bundle into the cider mixture.

Place the saucepan over moderate heat for 5 to 10 minutes, or until cider is hot, but not boiling.

Remove cider from the heat. Discard the spice bundle. Ladle cider into big cups or mugs, adding a fresh cinnamon stick to each serving if desired.

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