CHAMPAGNE PUNCH

• 1 fifth Southern Comfort
• 3 cups Cranberry Juice
• 1 quart 7-Up
• 1 cup fresh lemon or lime juice
• 1 dash Angostura Bitters (optional)
• 2 fifths champagne
• Large punch bowl

Pre-chill all ingredients the day before your party. In a large punch bowl, combine all ingredients except the champagne and stir. Slowly place large pieces of ice or an ice ring into the bowl. Ice cubes will work also, but tend to melt quicker and water down the punch. Slowly pour champagne into the bowl to fill.

RUM PUNCH

• 1 cup fresh lime juice
• 2 cups grenadine syrup
• 2 cups Jamaican white rum
• 1 cup light rum
• 2 cups fresh pineapple juice
• 2 cups fresh orange juice
• Pinch freshly grated nutmeg, optional
• Orange slices, for garnish
• Pineapple slices, for garnish

Mix all ingredients together in a pitcher or punch bowl. Chill in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour before serving. Garnish with orange or pineapple slices.

STEELERS GAME DAY PUNCH

• 2 quarts cranberry juice
• 1 pound clementines, not peeled, and cut into slices
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
• 2 cinnamon sticks
• 1 quart lemon-lime soda
• 1 liter spiced rum

In a saucepan, bring the cranberry juice, clementines, cloves, and cinnamon sticks up to a boil. Remove the pan from the heat and set aside. This will infuse the tangerines and spices into the juice. Chill the infused juice completely.

In a punch bowl, whisk the chilled juice, soda, and rum together. Chill the punch completely before serving. Serve the punch in a punch bowl and ladle into glasses filled with ice.

MULLED WINE

• 2 bottles dry red wine
• 4 ounces port or brandy
• 12 whole cloves
• 4 cinnamon sticks
• 1 large orange, zested

Serving suggestion: Garnish with cinnamon sticks or freshly ground nutmeg

Combine ingredients in a large pot and bring to a simmer. Do not allow mixture to boil. Heat for 20 minutes and serve in a large, heat resistant punch bowl.

4 JUICE HOLIDAY PUNCH

• 1 12-ounce can frozen cranberry-juice cocktail concentrate
• 1 12-ounce can frozen raspberry-cranberry-juice cocktail concentrate
• 1 12-ounce can frozen apple-juice concentrate
• 1 12-ounce can frozen lemonade concentrate
• 1 liter bottle chilled ginger ale
• 2 liter bottles chilled club soda
• 2 cups cold water
• 3 cups chilled vodka

Combine frozen concentrates in a punch bowl. (A large soup tureen makes a good substitute.) Thaw, mix well and refrigerate until needed. At serving time, add ginger ale, club soda, water and vodka, if using. Serve with plenty of ice.

EGGNOG

Purchase egg nog at your favorite grocery store

• 1/2 pint Bourbon
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• Nutmeg

Add Bourbon, vanilla and a pinch of nutmeg, if desired. Mix well. Chill in refrigerator before serving. Serve eggnog in a large punch bowl.

Most people don't consider a meal to be complete without dessert. Unfortunately, sometimes after all those appetizers and entrees, there isn't any room left to satisfy your sweet tooth.

Luckily, dessert doesn't have to mean a piece of heavy cream pie or chocolate cheesecake. Nowadays, dessert drinks are all the rage. These delectable, drinkable desserts are a refreshing, less-filling ending to the perfect dining experience.

• 2 oz. Banana Liqueur
• 2 oz. Creme de Cacao
• 2 oz. Vodka
• 2 oz. Half-and-Half

Mix in a shaker with ice then strain. Garnish with sliced banana. Top with whipped cream if desired.

• 1 oz. Vanilla Schnapps
• 1 oz. Coconut Rum
• 3 oz. Cream

Combine all ingredients into a shaker with ice. Shake & strain into cocktail glass.

• 1-1/2 oz. Key Lime Liqueur
• 1-1/2 oz. Vanilla Vodka
• 2/3 oz. Freshly Squeezed Lime Juice
• 1-1/2 oz. Half and Half

Coat the rim of chilled cocktail glass with lime and dip rim in a mixture of 2 tbsp. crushed graham crackers and 1 tbsp. powdered sugar (on a flat plate). Set glass aside. Mix Vodka, Li­­queur, fresh lime juice and half and half in a cocktail shaker filled with ice cubes. Shake vigorously and pour into the set aside glass. Serve.

• 1 oz. Vanilla Vodka
• 2 oz. Pineapple Juice
• 1 Dash Grenadine Syrup

Shake pineapple juice and vanilla vodka with ice in a tumbler. Pour into a martini cocktail glass. Add dash of grenadine, and serve. Garnish with a maraschino cherry and a wedge of pineapple

• 1/2 oz. Cinnamon Schnapps
• 1/2 oz. Citrus Vodka
• 3/4 oz. Sweet and Sour Mix
• 1/4 oz. Sour Apple Pucker Schnapps

Pour cinnamon schnapps, vodka, sweet and sour mix and sour apple schnapps into a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake & strain into a chilled martini glass rimmed with cinnamon and sugar, and serve.

• 1 oz. White Creme de Cacao
• 1 oz. Black Raspberry Liqueur
• 1 Tbsp. Cream Cheese
• 2 Scoops Vanilla Ice Cream
• 1/2 Cup Crushed Ice

Blend ingredients until smooth. Pour into a parfait glass, and serve. Garnish with fresh raspberries.