If you have decided to organize a New Year's Eve party at home this year, then you are probably already thinking about what your festive menu will include. Do you want the past year with onedelicious dessertend and surprise your guests or family? We have some ideas for youDessert for New Year's Eveput together to give you a twice as good start into the new year.
Dessert for New Year’s Eve – small and pretty to look at
Depending on whether you are celebrating in a friendly atmosphere or with lots of friends at home, the New Year's Eve treats can be in mini format and should be quick to prepare. Desserts are very suitableoffered as snacks in betweenbecause the New Year's Eve party usually lasts until the next morning and hunger can be satisfied at a later date with the right dessert. These include cupcakes, for example, which can be decorated to suit the festive occasion. The homemade chocolates are always well received by the guests.
Delicious cupcakes as dessert for New Year's Eve
The muffins, which have emerged over time as a classic dessert for New Year's Eve, are perfect for this. They are prepared quickly, always turn out well and are very varied. You can even cut the finished cupcakes in two and spread jam on them.
To make your New Year's Eve muffins look as festive as they should on the last day of the year, you can turn them into great cupcakes with buttercream or cream topping and decorate them with glittering sugar sprinkles or small stars. For this purpose, use a piping bag with a large star tip. It is also very important that you let the cupcakes cool completely before decorating them. Otherwise the buttercream may melt and the icing may run. In recent years, so-called cake pops have become popular. They are primarily used as cake decorations, but can also be served to guests as dessert. If you want more glitz and glamor then go for macarons. They can be perfectly decorated with edible glitter and beads. If you're looking for a fruity option, you can choose cherries, bananas or apples in chocolate glaze.
Cupcakes with cream cheese and champagne frosting
With gold paper cups for the muffins and served on a silver cookie stand, they make a great New Year's Eve dessert. The festive dessert can also contain a little alcohol, of course only if no children eat it. If you want, you can pamper your palate by adding sparkling wine. For the delicious, fluffy topping, you will need 2 packs of cream cheese, 100 g powdered sugar, 150 ml sparkling wine and 100 ml cream for around 12 cupcakes.
Decorate your New Year's Eve dessert with edible beads
Mix the cream cheese with the powdered sugar until smooth, then slowly add the sparkling wine and finally stir in the cream. For a firmer consistency you can also use a packet of cream stiffener. If you have chosen a colorful theme for New Year's Eve, you can stir some food coloring in your desired color into the cream or decorate the cupcakes with small sugar pearls.
Create dessert for children
If small children are among your guests of honor, you can create cute little animals with any topping you like. For example, you can easily form cute bears using desiccated coconut. Sprinkle a little more coconut flakes in the middle of the muffin and the protruding snout is ready. You can paint the eyes with melted chocolate and the little ones will definitely be impressed.
Make your own colorful lemon truffles
Do you want to serve colorful, homemade lemon truffles and create the wow factor among guests? The sweet truffles are a noble and delicious dessert for your New Year's Eve party and will also refresh you with their delicate lemony taste. For around 30-35 pieces you need:
- 200g white chocolate
- 30 g Butter
- 25 g ladyfingers
- 60 ml Sahne
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
Nicely prepared delicacies
Briefly boil the cream with the butter and remove the pot from the heat. Dissolve the coarsely chopped chocolate in it and then stir in the coarsely crumbled ladyfingers and the lemon zest. Let the mixture solidify in the refrigerator. Take a teaspoon of each mixture and shape it into balls. You can then dip the finished truffles in chocolate or roll them in powdered sugar. You are welcome to pack this sweet temptation in small boxes with gift ribbon and place them at the table as a chic, personal party bag.
Dessert on a stick enchants with a great look
Small, sweet, round cake balls on a stick look simply great and are an ideal dessert for New Year's Eve. The cake pops are a pretty eye-catcher and extremely versatile as there are countless ways to decorate them. Delight your guests with thesestylish little cakesin different colors and glitter.
Decorate cake pop to taste
Covered with chocolate or marzipan, or rolled in brittle, they also make excellent original party bags. You don't need any special stands to serve the delicious cakes in a sophisticated way. They look great served in pretty mason jars or on a simple, plain plate. You can also serve the popcakes on a Styrofoam bar.
Refined delicacies – glittering macarons
Have you decided on an elegant table decoration in silver or gold? The dessert for New Year's Eve can also have a decorative effect and influence and complete the entire look. Small almond macarons with lots of glitter look very festive. The elegant French pastries can be filled with various creams after baking. You need the following ingredients for about 25 macarons:
- 90 g egg whites
- 25g sugar
- 100 g finely ground almonds
- 200g powdered sugar
- pinch of salt
Colorful finger food with delicious filling
Beat the egg whites with salt and sugar until they become firm. Mix the powdered sugar with the almonds and sift everything, ideally a few times. Fold the dry ingredients into the meringue mixture. Pipe circles onto a baking tray covered with baking paper and let the macarons dry. Now the kisses are baked for 15 minutes at 140 °C. Let the small macarons cool and put them in a sealable container for a day. You can then fill the small pastries and color the vanilla, butter or chocolate cream or add some food coloring to the macaroon dough and in this way add colorful accents to the table decoration.
Fine sweet and sour temptation
If you prefer onefruity and light dessertIf you want to serve it up for New Year's Eve, then delicious fruits in delicately melting chocolate are the perfect variant for your festive dessert. Covered in chocolate and decorated with small, silver sugar pearls, the cherries look very sophisticated when served on a cake plate.
Festive decoration with marshmallow candy cane pops
If you want to make a quick but creative dessert for New Year's Eve, just get a pack of marshmallows and some candy canes. For this unusual dessert you will also need some dark chocolate to melt. Dip the candy canes in the melted chocolate and insert them into the center of the marshmallow. Now you can dip the small bites into the chocolate mixture and then roll them in crumbled candy canes. Children and anyone who likes sweets will love this great dessert.
Make your own chocolates
Homemade chocolates are quick to prepare with just a few ingredients and promise a delicious experience. You can make these crunchy treats from small butter cookies with almonds on top and tasty chocolate coating. Serve the handmade chocolates in a beautiful cake stand.
Chocolate Peppermint Fudge
If you want to make a quick and easy no-bake chocolaty dessert, this chocolate peppermint fudge might be right for you. Seasoned with dark or milk chocolate, condensed milk and a few aromatic drops of peppermint oil, the small slices will undoubtedly pamper the soul and palate.
Serve dessert in a glass
To keep you completely relaxed after the main course, you can prepare your New Year's Eve dessert the day before and serve it in a glass. Whether mascarpone cream with fruit jelly, mousse au chocolat with raspberries orPanna Cotta, all desserts look pretty and very special when served in a glass. These desserts and puddings can be layered quickly and easily in bowls. This way you can save yourself time and effort. The dessert is not only very tasty, but also looks great.
Creatively garnished dessert for New Year's Eve
A layered look will give your homemade dessert that certain something. You are welcome to develop your own creations and give the dessert in the glass a very personal touch with an unusual decoration.
Meringue kisses for snacking
Airy, light meringue kisses are prepared in no time and are perfect, sweet finger food for New Year's Eve. You are welcome to spread chocolate cream on two meringue halves and put them together or simply stick small sparklers on top and enjoy the sparkle.
Layered dessert in a glass for New Year's Eve: Delicious dessert with chocolate and cherries
Treat yourself and your guests to a delicious, beautifully presented dessert. The next layered dessert perfectly rounds off the festive menu for New Year's Eve and also looks great. Preparation time: 6 minutes, baking time for the chocolate cake base: 1 hour. Optionally, you can also purchase a ready-made cake base to save time.
The ingredients for 10 servings:
- 100 g butter, soft
- 150 g Flour
- 30 g cocoa powder, sweetened
- 2 medium eggs
- 100 ml milk
- 100g sugar
- 500 g Vanille-Pudding
- 700 g sour cherries in a glass, pitted
- 60 ml Kirschlikör (optional)
- 300 ml whipped cream
- 1 tsp powdered sugar
- 4 g vanilla sugar (1/2 pack)
- 100 g black chocolate shavings
First you need to bake the chocolate cake base, if you buy a ready-made base, you can skip this step and start preparing the dessert straight away. For the chocolate cake base: Grease a 28 cm diameter springform pan. Then preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Mix the softened butter with the sugar until smooth. Then add the eggs and mix them. In the meantime, you can mix the flour with the cocoa powder and the baking powder in another bowl and then gradually add it to the egg mixture. At the end, slowly add the milk in a thin stream, stirring constantly. Pour the finished dough into the mold and smooth the surface with a knife. Bake the chocolate base for 30 – 35 minutes (toothpick test!) at 170 degrees without a fan. After the cake base has cooled, cut it horizontally into three layers. Then use glasses to cut out 30 equally sized circles and (optionally) pour the cherry liqueur over them.
Mix the vanilla pudding with 50 g of black chocolate shavings, drain the pitted sour cherries and reserve 125 ml of the juice. Mix the whipped cream with the powdered sugar and vanilla sugar in another bowl.
Place 1 circle of chocolate cake base on the bottom of the cup, then spread vanilla pudding with the chocolate shavings over it, garnish with sour cherries, a little sour cherry juice and whipped cream. Layer the whole thing twice more in the same order and sprinkle the dessert with chocolate shavings. Refrigerate the dessert overnight.
Prepare New Year's Eve dessert in a glass: sweet temptation with raspberries
The next New Year's Eve dessert in a glass not only looks great, but is also heavenly delicious. For this sweet temptation you need the following ingredients for 8 servings:
- 375 g fresh or frozen raspberries
- 2 tsp powdered sugar (for garnish)
- 500 ml apple juice
- 3 tsp vanilla bean paste
- 12g ground gelatin
- 1 No
- 55g powdered sugar
- Red food coloring
- 600 ml whipped cream
- 250g fresh or frozen raspberries (in addition to the 375g listed above)
- 52 g soft silver chocolate beads (for example from Dr. Oetker)
- 8 glasses
Preheat the oven to 100 degrees and line a baking tray with baking paper. Separate the eggs and beat the whites with a hand mixer until stiff. Gradually add sugar and continue beating until a firm and shiny mass is obtained. Then use a piping bag to put the mixture in the right shape on the baking tray. If you want, you can add several drops of red food coloring to the piping bag first. Then let the meringues dry in the oven at 100 degrees for 1 hour and 30 minutes. Now mix the 375 g raspberries with the apple juice, gelatin and vanilla bean paste and puree everything until smooth. First pour the fruit mixture into the glasses, then garnish them with the additional 250 g of raspberries, the whipped cream, the icing sugar, the meringues and the silver chocolate pearls.
New Year's Eve bedside table for children: delicious dessert with yogurt and fruits
If you are looking for a delicious and healthy alternative to ordinary desserts in a jar, then the next recipe idea is perfect for you and your guests. It's also the perfect dessert for the kids. The ingredients for 4 servings:
- Greek yogurt with 4% fat
- 2-3 TL Chia Samen
- 60 ml almond milk
- Seeds from a pomegranate
- 1 handful of blackberries
- 1 handful of blueberries
- 1 handful of strawberries
- 1 handful of raspberries
- 1 pack (300 g) Belvita breakfast biscuits, crumbled
Mix the yogurt with the chia seeds and almond milk, divide the mixture into 4 glasses and garnish the glasses with the fruit. Then chill them for 6 hours. Before serving, sprinkle the glasses with the crumbled Belvita cookies.
New Year's Eve dessert in a glass: Simple recipe for dessert with Oreo cookies
Do you love Oreo cookies? Then you should definitely try the next layered dessert for New Year's Eve. The recipe is extremely simple, so even beginners will be able to make it and the layered dish is actually ready in a flash. The ingredients for 6 servings are as follows:
- 18 Oreo Biscuits
- 400 ml chocolate pudding
- 240 ml whipped cream
- 90g powdered sugar
- 20 ml butter, melted
- 400 g Philadelphia cream cheese
First prepare the chocolate pudding and keep it cold. Meanwhile, crumble the Oreo cookies as small as possible and mix with the butter. Pour the Oreo mixture into 6 glasses. In a separate bowl, mix the cream cheese with the powdered sugar and half of the whipped cream until smooth. Divide the cream cheese mixture into the glasses and garnish with chocolate pudding. Spread the rest of the whipped cream over the top and garnish with the crumbled Oreo cookies.
New Year's Eve ice cream dessert for children in a glass
Our last suggestion for a New Year's Eve dessert in a glass is a dessert with ice cream. And if you are organizing a party for your single friends, you can also flavor the dessert with Marsala (Italian fortified wine). You need the following ingredients for 6 servings:
- 350 g pitted cherries
- 80 ml Marsala (a fortified wine, in case you want to serve the dessert to the adults)
- 600 ml whipped cream
- 200g black chocolate
- 200 g vanilla ice cream
- 1/3 panettone (Italian Christmas cake), cut into 3cm cubes
First, combine the cherries and optional Marsala wine in a bowl and leave them aside. Meanwhile, warm the whipped cream in a saucepan, crumble the chocolate and add it. Let the cream sit in the fridge for 60 minutes and then whip it until creamy. Divide the panettone cake pieces into the glasses, then garnish with cherries and the ice cream and chocolate cream. Complete! If you wish, you can replace the cherries with other seasonal fruits.
