Gayles Sunshine Mocktail Recipes

Steps:

• Combine the cranberries, sugar and 1 cup water in a medium saucepan over high heat. Bring to a boil and reduce to a simmer. Carefully smash the cranberries with a potato masher, then simmer the mixture until slightly reduced and dark red, about 10 minutes. Let cool for 10 minutes.
• Strain the mixture through a strainer into a heatsafe container, pressing on the cranberry solids to extract all the juice. Let cool for 30 minutes.
• Combine the cranberry syrup with the limeade and lime juice in a pitcher and stir well.
• Mix equal parts of the drink mix and seltzer. Serve over ice with cranberries and a lime slice.

Steps:

• Add the blood orange juice, sugar and thyme to a small saucepan and place over medium heat. Bring to a simmer, stirring to dissolve the sugar, and cook for 2 minutes to let the flavors infuse. Turn off the heat and let the mixture steep and cool to room temperature.
• Discard the thyme; strain the syrup through a sieve. At this point, the syrup can be covered and refrigerated until ready to use, up to 1 week.
• Add 2 tablespoons of the blood-orange syrup to each of 2 highball glasses filled with ice. Top each glass with half of the ginger beer, then half of the cranberry juice. Stir and serve with some frozen cranberries and 1 blood orange slice.

Steps:

• To a large pitcher, add the juices and stir to combine. Pour the juice into 7 ice-filled glasses and top off with club soda.