Punch doesn’t always have to be served in traditional punch cups. Consider the occasion—for more traditional gatherings, certainly enlist your heirloom cups, but for more modern-minded parties, think of using distinctive champagne flutes.

Ingredients

• One 12-ounce container frozen pink lemonade concentrate, thawed

• 4 cups cranberry juice cocktail (see note)

• 4 cups club soda, chilled

• Garnish: lemon curls (optional)

Directions
Combine the pink lemonade concentrate and cranberry juice cocktail in a large pitcher or container. Stir in the club soda just before serving. Pour into champagne flutes. Garnish, if desired.

Note For a paler pink punch, use white cranberry juice cocktail.

Serves 8-10

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Excerpted from Porch Parties: Cocktail Recipes and Easy Ideas for Outdoor Entertaining. Published by Chronicle Books. Copyright © 2010 by Denise Gee. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Chronicle Books.