Weihnachtspunsch Recipe
This warm, rich Christmas Punch packs a punch! You'll taste hints of chocolate and Marzipan, along with wine, rum, citrus, and spices.
Ingredients
- 5 Tablespoons Brown Sugar
- Juice one Lemon
- 1 750 ml Bottle Red Wine
- 2 cup .5L Orange Juice
- 2 cup (.5L Strong Black Tea
- 1 1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 1 Lemon sliced
- 1 Orange sliced
- 1 Cinnamon Stick
- 6-8 Whole Cloves
- 7 Tablespoons 100 gr Marzipan
- 1 + ounce 20 gr Semi Sweet Chocolate
- 3/4 cup 200 ml Rum
Instructions
- Put the brown sugar into a saucepan large enough to hold all ingredients.
- Stir over low heat until it melts, and keep stirring when it's melted for another minute or two.
- Keep the flame medium low
- Then add the Tea, Wine, Orange Juice, Lemon Juice, and Vanilla. Stir to combine.
- Add the Sliced Lemon, sliced orange, cinnamon stick and cloves... stir.
- Then cut up the marzipan and chocolate. Stir until they dissolve.
- Let it all cook together for 15-20 minutes.
- Do NOT let the mix boil!
- Stir occasionally
- Remove the solid parts- orange slices, lemon slices, cloves and cinnamon stick.
- Add the Rum
- Give it a good stir and serve.
- You can keep this Winterpunsch warm over low heat.
- Stir if it begins to separate.
Notes
You can store the Winterpunsch in the refrigerator... reheat over low heat while stirring.
Note- I used Vanilla Extract instead of 2 Vanilla beans because that's what I had. If you use Vanilla beans, split them, scrape out the seeds, and drop the seeds and pods into the mix with the rest of the spices.