Banana Punch

Ingredients

• Servings: 45
• 6 cups water
• 4 cups white sugar
• 5 bananas
• 1 (46 fluid ounce) can pineapple juice
• 4 (6 ounce) cans frozen orange juice concentrate
• 2 (6 ounce) cans frozen lemonade concentrate
• 2 1/2 (2 liter) bottles lemon-lime flavored carbonated beverage (such as 7-up®)
• 2 oranges, sliced for garnish

Recipe

Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 3 mins Ready Time: 2 hrs 23 mins


• combine water and sugar in a large pot; bring to a boil. cook and stir until the sugar dissolves, about 3 minutes. cool in the refrigerator.
• put 1 banana and about 1 cup pineapple juice in a blender; blend until smooth. repeat until all bananas are pureed into pineapple juice; stir into the pot with the simple syrup. add orange juice concentrate and lemonade concentrate to the pot; stir. divide the mixture into smaller containers and freeze until mostly solid.
• put frozen mixture into a large punch bowl. thaw until slushy, but stirrable. stir lemon-lime carbonated beverage into the punch bowl. garnish with orange slices.