Chocolate and Fruit Drink Recipes for Your Next Backyard

Lemonade
You use lemons, sugar, hot water, cold water, and mint sprigs for this delightful drink.

Lime Cream Cooler
A creamy, refreshing punch recipe is just right for your summer garden party.

Sparkling Pink Lemonade
You can spend an afternoon on the front porch is just not the same without homemade lemonade especially when it's sparkling pink!

Fresh Fruit Sparkler
Ingredients: cold white sparkling grape juice, thawed frozen apple juice concentrate, Pure Lemon Extract, cold club soda or seltzer, and cut-up fresh fruit such as berries, grapes and oranges.

Hot Spiced Cherry Cider
Ingredients: apple cider, cinnamon sticks, and cherry-flavored gelatin.

Berry Lemonade
Ingredients: cold water, frozen unsweetened raspberries, and Lemonade Flavor Sugar Free Low Calorie Drink Mix.

Hot Pineapple Cranberry Taste
Ingredients: pineapple juice, cranberry juice cocktail, honey, ground cloves, and grated lime peel.

Pineapple Lemonade Cooler
Ingredients: Lemonade or Pink Lemonade Flavor Drink Mix, cold water, cold pineapple juice, club soda or seltzer, Lemon slices, if desired, and Pineapple slices, if desired.

Caribbean Cooler
Ingredients: Lemonade Flavor Drink Mix, cold water, cold pineapple juice, and cream of coconut.

Catalina Orange Julep
Ingredients: fresh orange juice, limes, sugar, mint leaves, club soda, and sprigs fresh mint.

OREOŽ Mint Cocoa
Ingredients: OREO Chocolate Sandwich Cookies, milk, chocolate syrup, peppermint extract, and peppermint sticks (if desired).

Quick & Easy Lemonade - Pineapple Punch
Ingredients: Lemonade Flavor Drink Mix, can (48-ounces) pineapple juice, cans (12-ounces each) carbonated lemon-lime beverage, cold water, lemon slices, and maraschino cherries.

Raspberry Party Punch
Ingredients: crushed ice, fresh or frozen raspberries, orange slices (1/4-inch), bottles (48-ounce) cran-raspberry juice cocktail, and bottles (25-ounce) nonalcoholic sparkling white grape juice.

Misty Taste Fruit Punch
Ingredients: large cans apricot nectar juice, large cans pineapple juice, small cans frozen lemonade, quart water, and large bottle ginger ale.

Spiced Apple Cider
Ingredients: apple cider, brown sugar, whole allspice,  whole cloves, cinnamon sticks, thin slices gingerroot, Orange, and raisins.

Cider Punch
Ingredients: sweet apple cider, orange juice, lemon juice, stick cinnamon, and cloves.

Strawberry - Lemon Fresh Fruit Drink
Looking for a refreshing drink recipe?  Try this one.  ingredients include: strawberries, fresh lemon juice, and sugar.

Mulled Apple Cider
Ingredients: light brown sugar, apple cider, whole allspice, whole cloves, whole cinnamon sticks, and oranges.

Quick & Easy Lemonade - Pineapple Punch
Ingredients: Lemonade Flavor Drink Mix, can (48-ounces) pineapple juice, cans (12-ounces each) carbonated lemon-lime beverage, cold water, lemon slices, and maraschino cherries.

Warm Fruit Punch
Ingredients: water, can (12 ounces) frozen cranberry-raspberry juice concentrate, can (6 ounces) frozen lemonade concentrate, sugar, cinnamon sticks, whole cloves, whole allspice.

Apple Orchard Punch
Ingredients: orange juice, apple juice, frozen cranberry cocktail concentrate, ginger ale, and a red apple.

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