Dracula's blood punch

Cooking time

Prep: 10 mins    Cook: 5 minsplus 4 hrs chilling

Skill level

Easy

Servings

Serves 12

A refreshing mocktail fit for a vampire- team cherry juice with chilli, cinnamon, cloves and ginger, then garnish with a set of sweet fangs

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

Method

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.
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. Dangle a fangs sweet from each glass.