Best Rum Punch Recipes

CARIBBEAN RUM PUNCH

Steps:

• In a pitcher, combine lime juice, simple syrup, rum and orange juice. Add a few dashes of bitters and some grated nutmeg to taste. Serve chilled over ice.

WARM CIDER AND RUM PUNCH

Steps:

• In a large pot, combine apple cider, apple slices, orange slices, cinnamon sticks, and ginger. Bring to a boil over high; reduce to a simmer and cook 5 minutes. (Keep warm over low, up to 2 hours.) Remove from heat and stir in rum. Transfer to a punch bowl; serve warm.

RUM PUNCH

Steps:

• Pour the juices, rum, sugar syrup, grenadine and Angostura bitters into a large jug and give it a good stir. Pop into the fridge to chill for 1 hr.
• Serve over ice cubes, sprinkle over the nutmeg and garnish with an orange slice and maraschino cherry, speared with a cocktail stick.

HOT CIDER RUM PUNCH

Steps:

• Insert cloves into center of orange slices. Combine all ingredients in a large pot and bring to a simmer. Serve warm.

CRANBERRY RUM PUNCH

Steps:

• In a medium-size punchbowl, stir cranberry juice and sugar together until the sugar dissolves. Mix in ginger ale, rum, and lemon and lime slices. Serve over ice.

CHRISTMAS RUM PUNCH

Steps:

• Fill a 2-cup container with water and add lime slices, apple wedges, and cranberries; cover and transfer to a freezer. Freeze until solid.
• In a large punch bowl, mix together sugar and lime juice until dissolved. Add rum, Grand Marnier, Amaretto, and apple juice. Transfer to refrigerator until ready to serve.
• Add ice and top with sparkling water. Garnish with lime slices, orange slices, apple wedges, and cinnamon; serve.

SPICED RUM PUNCH

Steps:

• In a small pot, bring water, sugar, and 6 cinnamon sticks to a boil. Reduce to a simmer and cook 8 minutes. Let cool to room temperature; discard cinnamon. (Refrigerate in airtight container, up to 1 month.) In a punch bowl, stir together cinnamon syrup, pineapple juice, rum, and lime juice. To serve, add ice and cinnamon sticks.

JAMAICAN SORREL RUM PUNCH

Steps:

• In a heat-proof bowl combine the sorrel, the ginger and the cloves. In a saucepan bring 5 cups of the water to a boil, pour it over the sorrel mixture, and let the mixture steep for 4 hours or overnight. While the mixture is steeping, in a small saucepan bring the remaining 3/4 cup water and the sugar to a boil, stirring until the sugar is dissolved, and let the syrup cool. Strain the sorrel liquid into a pitcher, discarding the solids, stir in the sugar syrup, the rum and the ice cubes, and garnish the punch with the lime and orange slices.

RUM PUNCH FOR ONE (BARBADOS)

Steps:

• Place ice cubes in tall glass. Add lime juice and sugar syrup and stir.
• Add rum and water (or passionfruit juice), and stir.
• Add bitters and nutmeg on top, and serve immediately.

HOT RUM PUNCH

Steps:

• Using a vegetable peeler, remove the zest of 2 lemons and the tangerine in strips. Drop into a large heatproof bowl (or use a fireproof bowl if you plan to set the punch on fire) and combine with sugar. Muddle together with a muddler, pestle or the back of a wooden spoon. Let mixture sit for at least 3 hours to infuse (or infuse overnight).
• Halve the tangerine and squeeze juice into a measuring cup. Halve lemons and squeeze lemon juice into the measuring cup to make 3/4 cup juice in total. (Save any unsqueezed lemon halves for another purpose.)
• When ready to serve, bring 1 quart water to a boil. Pour rum and cognac into the bowl with the sugar and peels. If you want to flame the punch, do so now; see note below.
• Add reserved citrus juice and boiling water and stir well. Grate nutmeg over top of punch and ladle into glasses.

ISLAND RUM PUNCH

Steps:

• In a short cocktail glass, mix together rum, lime juice, sugar, and water. Add ice cubes and stir. Adjust amount of lime and sugar to taste. Rum is a liquor made from sugar cane juice, fermented and distilled. It is common in the West Indies, when you order a simple punch, to be served a tray bearing icefilled glasses, a bottle of rum, some cutup limes, and a bowl of raw sugar. Everyone makes his or her own cocktail to taste.

COUNTDOWN #7 CRANBERRY AND SPICED RUM PUNCH

Steps:

• Bring the orange zest, cinnamon sticks, cloves, ginger, water, and sugar to a boil in a small heavy saucepan, stirring until the sugar has dissolved. Reduce the heat and then simmer, covered, 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and let steep, uncovered, for 1 hour.
• Strain through a fine-mesh sieve into a bowl, discarding the solids.
• Combine the remaining ingredients with the spiced syrup in a punch bowl and stir. Add ice before serving.

RUM PUNCH

Steps:

• In a large pitcher, combine the rum, juices, and grenadine. Stir until well blended. Fill glasses with ice; divide mixture between glasses. Garnish with lime and serve immediately.

PINEAPPLE RUM PUNCH

Steps:

• In a pitcher, combine all ingredients. Serve over ice.

CREAMY EGGNOG PUNCH WITH SPICED RUM

Steps:

• Scoop ice cream into a punch bowl.
• Pour eggnog over ice cream, and sprinkle with nutmeg and cinnamon; stir in whipped topping.
• To each glass add a shot of rum, then eggnog, one cinnamon stick, top with a couple of drops of grenadine and a cherry.
• Serve immediately.
• Stir, as needed.

CHRISTMAS PARTY HOLIDAY RUM PUNCH

Steps:

• In a punch bowl, combine sugar, oj, and lemon juice: stir until sugar dissolves.
• Add cherries, triple sec, rum orange slices, lemon slices and pineapple chunks.
• Stir and refrigerate for 1-2 hours to allow the flavours to blend.
• Pour in Seltzer and add ice just before serving.

APPLE CIDER AND RUM PUNCH

Steps:

• Combine rum, vermouth, lemon juice, simple syrup, and bitters in a large pitcher. Add 2 cups ice and stir until ice has mostly melted and punch is very cold. Stir in apple slices and orange zest; gently stir in cider.
• Divide punch among ice-filled old-fashioned glasses and garnish with more apple slices and orange zest.
• Do Ahead
• Punch (without apple, orange zest, and cider) can be made 1 day ahead. Chill.

TROPICAL COCONUT RUM PUNCH

Steps:

• Put all the ingredients in a jug, mix well and chill. To serve, add ice to glasses, pour over the rum punch and decorate with pineapple & lime skewers.

CREAMY COCONUT BELIZE RUM PUNCH

Steps:

• Fill tall glass with ice, add first 5 ingredients then top off with pineapple juice. Shake thoroughly.
• Add a dash or two of grenadine, stir gently and then listen to the sound of the warm Carribean breezes flowing through the palm trees.

SUNSET RUM PUNCH

Steps:

• Combine crushed ice, spiced rum, lime juice, orange juice, grapefruit juice, white rum, dark rum, hibiscus syrup, and almond syrup in a cocktail shaker. Cover and shake until the outside of the shaker has frosted.
• Fill a tiki mug with crushed ice. Strain cocktail over ice. Garnish with orange slice and maraschino cherry.