Cran-cherry Plasma Transfusion

Total Time: 5 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 (15 ounce) can fruit cocktail
• 1 (14 1/2 ounce) can dark sweet cherries
• 2 cups cranberry juice cocktail

Recipe

• 1 for transfusion bags:.
• 2 6 zipper-lock sandwich bags.
• 3 6 straws, twisted or flexible.
• 4 6 shower curtain rings.
• 5 puree the fruit cocktail and cherries , with their liquids, in a blender or food processor until smooth. mix in the cranberry juice cocktail and refrigerate until chilled.
• 6 to prepare the "transfusion bags," punch a hole with a hole-punch in the corner of one layer of a zipper-lock sandwich bag just below the zipper. insert a twisty straw or flexible straw in the hole and punch another hole in the same corner of the bag through both layers, just above the zipper. thread a shower curtain ring through that hole. repeat with remaining bags, straws and shower curtain rings.
• 7 to serve, pour 1 cup of the cranberry-cherry mixture into each bag and seal. hang by the shower curtain rings on hooks. guests can hold their drink by the ring and sip through the straw.
• 8 note: if you want a more adult cocktail, add 3/4-cup vodka to the juice mixture before chilling. this mixture will yield 9, 3/4-cup servings.