Name: Halloween punch
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 2l cherry juice; peel from 3 oranges pared with a vegetable peeler; 1 thumb-sized red chilli pierced a few times but left whole; 3 cinnamon sticks; 10 cloves; 6 slices ginger; Dracula's fangs sweets (available from sweet shops), to serve, optional; 200ml vodka or 25ml per glass

2l cherry juice
peel from 3 oranges
pared with a vegetable peeler
1 thumb-sized red chilli
pierced a few times but left whole
3 cinnamon sticks
10 cloves
6 slices ginger
Dracula's fangs sweets
(available from sweet shops), to serve, optional

For an alcoholic punch (optional)

200ml vodka
or 25ml per glass

Method

step 1
Tip the cherry juice, orange peel, chilli, cinnamon sticks, cloves and ginger into a large saucepan. Simmer for 5 mins, then turn off the heat. Leave to cool, then chill for at least 4 hrs, or up to 2 days – the longer you leave it the more intense the flavours. If serving to young children, take the chilli out after a few hours.
step 2
When you’re ready to serve, pour the juice into a jug. Serve in glass bottles or glasses and pop a straw in each. If you're adding vodka, do so at this stage. Dangle a fangs sweet from each glass.