12 Fun & Festive New Year's Desserts
A sweet treat is the perfect way to begin or end your New Year's celebrations! Studded with flavors of the season — these chocolate, spiced, or fruity decadent treats are the best of the best and will add some excitement to your night. Need some inspiration? Check out this round-up of 12 New Year's Eve Dessert Recipes to select which sweet treat will help you bring in the New Year!
1. New Year's Bread Pudding
Be open to something new! New Year's Bread Pudding is the key to changing your perspective on desserts. All we need to say is "bourbon," and your attention shifts to a whole new, unexplored area of bread pudding love. The classic, moist treat is topped with a sweet bourbon-caramel sauce that tops them all. New Year's Bread Pudding is an excellent way to end or even begin your celebrations. Ring in a new way to dessert!
See More2. Winter Wonderland Trifle
Later on, we will conspire about your thoughts on this dream of a dessert! Winter Wonderland Trifle will be a beautiful sight at the holiday dessert buffet. The sleigh bells will ring in delight when you take off with a dish full of angel food cake layered with a glistening, white-chocolate-infused whipped cream that's topped with a dollop of peppermint-flavored whipped cream. Are you listening?! Winter Wonderland Trifle is the plan that we've made for a lovely stroll along the perfect lane of dessert choices. In the kitchen you can build this trifle and we'll pretend that it is calorie-free (ha, ha)!
See More3. Snow-Kissed Cupcakes
When beauty and food collide, it's such a wonderful treat! Snow-Kissed Cupcakes are not only beautiful, they are super yummy, too! Light and airy angel food cupcakes are topped with sweet whipped cream, a fresh raspberry, and gently glistening with a dusting of confectioners' sugar. Warm a blustery winter's day with Snow-Kissed Cupcakes for an enchanting and delightful dessert. It's a sweet vision to behold!
See More4. Winter Citrus Bundt™ Cake
There is no dessert that brings more wonderful seasonal flavors to your eager taste buds all at once like this Winter Citrus Bundt™ Cake! This cake is tender and sweet, but everywhere you look you'll find holiday favorites: fresh, vibrant orange baked into the golden cake and drizzled atop it as a glaze! Tart cranberries and a warm cinnamon-sugar swirl fill each slice, and a snowy touch of vanilla brings it all together! Winter Citrus Bundt Cake is the perfect treat for your winter celebration, no matter the holiday or even if it's a holiday at all!
See More5. White Chocolate Raspberry Pound Cake
This dessert looks like a winter wonderland and tastes even better than that! White Chocolate Raspberry Pound Cake is decorated with all sorts of incredible flavors, from the bursts of sweet and tart raspberries in the cake to the creamy, luscious white chocolate ganache on top! And of course, White Chocolate Raspberry Pound Cake has the cake itself, a tender and buttery confection that captures your tastebuds' attention! Let the magic of the wintery season manifest in your kitchen any time of the year with this decadent dessert!
See More6. Red Velvet Cake Truffles
When it's hosting time, you want to make sure people have plenty of finger foods they can enjoy without breaking the flow of conversation. It's true of appetizers and it can also be true of desserts! Red Velvet Cake Truffles are just one example, but what an example they are! Each chocolate-coated (always a good start) sphere is filled with rich and tender red velvet cake already mixed with its beloved partner-in-crime, tangy and creamy cream cheese. These are essentially cake pops without the sticks, which is totally fine; those sticks tend to just get in the way. Red Velvet Cake Truffles are rosy desserts that you can pass around to friends and family... or, you know, just keep for yourself.
See More7. Winter Sticky Toffee Pudding
Winter Sticky Toffee Pudding is a beloved classic of British cooking, the kind of ultra-tender, delectably sweet sponge cake that's actually a snap to make! With the addition of chopped dates, Winter Sticky Toffee Pudding is truly sugary and yet never cloying! And the creamy molasses sauce on top is just the icing on the cake, so to speak... although it might be even better than icing! This is just great, start to finish!
See More8. Cranberry Season Cake
Is there any way to celebrate the winter season with more joy than with a slice... or two... or three... of this Cranberry Season Cake? If there is, we haven't found or tasted it! This tender vanilla cake is filled with tart, juicy cranberries and then topped with a snowy, creamy, tangy cream cheese frosting. Mmm but the cherry (or in this case, the cranberry) on top is the syrup-soaked and coated cranberries with sparkling sugar all over! Cranberry Season Cake might just be the magic of the winter in dessert form!
See More9. Happy New Year's Balls
5...4...3...2...1... Happy New Year! It's finally here, the start of a brand-new year and a brand-new you! Best to start both off on a sweet note! Happy New Year's Balls are sandwich cookie truffles, letting the chocolatey, creamy flavor speak for itself with a little cream cheese to help them keep their shape and enhance the cookies-and-cream flavor. With a vanilla candy coating that only adds to the celebratory taste, Happy New Year's Balls start everything off with a bash!
See More10. Truffle Temptation Pie
If you're in the mood for a sugar rush, but not just any treat will do, this Truffle Temptation Pie is a sweet and decadent way to go. Whip up this warm and flaky homemade crust and get ready for the sugar-induced euphoria that's on its way. And it gets even better! Your work of art (as in, your crust) gets smothered with chocolate, covered in a sweet and jammy strawberry dream, that will satisfy your sweet tooth's craving and then some. Experience the greatest rush of joy and glee thanks to this Truffle Temptation Pie!
See More11. Death-by-Chocolate Cake
Death-by-Chocolate Cake doesn't sound like a bad way to go... when it comes to selecting your dessert that is. What did you think we meant?! Anyway, every piece of this ultra-fudgy, super moist, chocolate-on-chocolate-on-chocolate delight will bring you back to life! And whatever shape you decide to slice it into, be sure to have a glass of ice-cold milk or a scoop of creamy vanilla ice cream to wash all that chocolatey richness down with. The bold, cocoa-y flavors of Death-by-Chocolate Cake will make you feel more alive than ever!
See More12. Gourmet Chocolate Covered Strawberries
A true Valentine's Day staple! Sure, you could buy a pack of premade chocolate-covered strawberries, but that’s not nearly as meaningful. Gourmet Chocolate Covered Strawberries are in fact even better than what you can find in any store, with fresher fruit, creamier, richer chocolate, and the toppings you love most. These Gourmet Chocolate Covered Strawberries can become your signature romantic treat, especially because they take just 20 minutes to make!
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