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To elevate your Sunday Funday brunch try making my Sunkist ® Cara Cara Orange Champagne Cocktail. Make the syrup ahead of time and serve your favorite bubble with a splash of the syrup. the Sunkist ® Cara Cara Orange flavor offers just the right amount of sweet to any dry wine! I also love using the syrup for my cocktails by adding just a tough to sparkling water or ginger beer. Scroll down for the recipe!

Sunkist® Cara Cara Orange Champagne Cocktail

By Brandi Milloy

Ingredients

• ½ oz Sunkist® Cara Cara Orange Syrup

• 2 oz. Champagne or Sparkling Wine

Directions

1. Pour syrup into a coupe or flute glass. Top with champagne or sparkling wine and enjoy!

Sunkist® Cara Cara Champagne Syrup

By Brandi Milloy

Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar

• 1 cup Sunkist® Cara Cara Juice 

Directions

1. Pour ingredients into a pan set to medium and heat until boiling. Mix to dissolve sugar and remove from heat. Cool completely before pouring into bottle. Keep in refrigerator for up to one month.

Brandon Kidd Photography

I love Arnold Palmers. It’s pretty much my go to every time I eat out unless it’s late and I’m worried about the caffeine (then it’s sparkling water extra ice with lime please). Anyway—I love when I go to restaurants and order an Arnold Palmer and they say that their Arnold Palmer is different. I’m always down. “It’s made with strawberry lemonade” or “we have it but we make it with peach tea, is that OK?” Ummm yes to all of the above. I love it all. It’s the perfect mix of sweet from the lemonade and the bite from the tea.

This recipe was kind of an accident one afternoon when I was craving an Arnold Palmer and instead of grabbing a lemon from my fruit bowl, I grabbed a few blood oranges and Cara Cara’s. The result was glorious! Citrusy, juicy, sweet tea (but not too sweet cause it doesn’t need it). You’ve gotta try this and might as well make a big batch to share with guests. Tastes even better with a slice of blood orange as garnish. It really hits all the sense, ya know? Cheers!

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Blood Orange & Cara Cara Iced Tea

by Brandi Milloy

Serves 4

Ingredients 

• 6 cups water

• 2 Sunkist Cara Cara Oranges

• 2 Sunkist Blood Oranges

• 4 black tea bags

• 1/4 cup organic honey or agave

Directions

1. Into a large pot, heat 3 cups of water just until boiling. Remove from heat. 

2. Peel rind off oranges and place in pot. Add tea bags to steep for 5 minutes. Stir in honey.

3. Juice oranges and pour juice into pot and stir.

4. Into a large pitcher, pour 3 cups of cold water. Place strainer over pitcher and add tea and juice mixture. Serve with ice and slices of orange.

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Photography Credit: @Ographr

These donuts are the sweet secret weapon you are going to want to add to your recipe arsenal.  Using only 5 ingredients you probably already have on hand, it’s the perfect treat to whip up any time of the day. And if you're as obsessed with Pantone's Color of the Year: Living Coral as I am, you'll love my trick to getting the perfect shade of glaze. I mean, even if you just want to make these for the insta-likes, you might as well, but the flavor of these donuts are bursting with bright citrus from the Sunkist Cara Cara Navel oranges. And because they’re baked instead of fried like traditional donuts, they are super light and fluffy but every bit delicious so let’s get started!

Here’s what you need: pancake mix, sugar, freshly squeezed Sunkist Cara Cara Navel orange juice, yogurt, and eggs.

(Your eggs don’t need to be blue or brown but I couldn’t help it because they’re so pretty!)

Preheat your oven to 355°F and then into a bowl, mix all of the ingredients until the batter is nice and smooth.

That’s it. Really. You toss 5 ingredients into one dish, give it a mix, and now we’re ready to pour the batter into our donut pan.

A quick tip to getting the filling in the donut pan easily is to create a homemade piping bag. Just place a gallon size plastic bag in a jar and pour the batter into the bag, snip one of the corners and fill each well evenly.

Tap the bottom of the pan to release any air bubbles and then bake for 15-18 minutes or until golden brown and baked through.

Once the donuts are baked, place them on a wire rack to cool and then make your glaze. It’s just powdered sugar and some freshly squeezed Sunkist blood orange juice. Depending on how bold the color is of your blood orange will determine the color of your glaze. I love how mine ended up having this muted maroon shade! So pretty!

To frost the donuts, you can drizzle the glaze on top or spread some glaze around the top of the donut and let the excess fall. I love this “Homer Simpson” style look! If you’d like to add a garnish, do so while the glaze is still wet. I added a few sprinkles and a small segment of citrus on top of each!

I mean, if you haven’t already paused scrolling to check your pantry to make sure you have everything to make these….

Oh and by the way I should mention that Sunkist Cara Cara Navel oranges are available December through May so you can make these all season long! I’d love to see your photos of these donuts and how you gave them your own special touch so post your photos on Instagram and tag me @BrandiMilloy! Also, to watch the full video of me making these just go to my IGTV Channel! Then scroll down for the full recipe, I donut mind at all! :) And for more delicious recipes visit Sunkist.com/recipes

Sunkist Cara Cara Navel Orange Yogurt Donuts

PREPARATION: 10 minutes

COOKING: 15 minutes

INGREDIENTS

• 1 1/4 cups pancake mix

• 1/3 cup granulated sugar

• 1/8 cup Sunkist Cara Cara Navel orange juice, freshly squeezed

• 1/2 cup plain yogurt

• 2 eggs, large

• 2 cups powdered sugar

• Zest from 2 Sunkist blood oranges

• 1/4 cup freshly squeezed Sunkist Blood orange juice

• Sprinkles, optional (these are the vintage rose gold sprinkles I used)

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 355°F.

2. In a large bowl, combine the pancake mix and sugar. Add in the orange juice, yogurt and eggs.

3. Stir well to combine. Batter should be smooth, but do not over-mix. Divide the batter evenly among the donut ring molds (a few tablespoons, depending on the size of the ring mold).

4. Bake in preheated oven for 15-18 minutes. (Cooking times will vary depending on your oven. Start checking at the 12 minute mark.) Donuts should be golden brown and dry to the touch.

5. Remove from the oven, and allow donuts to cool completely in the ring molds. 

6. Meanwhile, make glaze by mixing powdered sugar, zest and juice. If glaze is too thick, add 1/2 tablespoon of juice at a time until desired consistency. Frost donuts and garnish with sprinkles if desired.
   
   Note:
   • A donut pan is required for this recipe.
   • Before removing from the oven, test donuts with toothpick to ensure they are cooked through.