The ultimate guide to New Year’s Eve Appetizers! Whether you want dips, finger foods, or kid friendly options, we’ve got you covered!
What do you serve at a new year’s eve party?
Finger foods, including appetizers and desserts are most commonly served at a New Year’s Eve party! Why? Because they’re easy to eat standing up and many don’t require utensils or even a plate! Dips that can be kept at room temperature or warm in a crockpot are also very popular, because they’re quick, easy, low maintenance, and there’s often enough to feed a crowd! With that in mind, I’ve compiled a list of the best New Year’s Eve appetizers—with vegetarian, gluten free, and kid-friendly options too!
Little bites and handheld snacks
Easy Deviled Eggs
These Easy Deviled Eggs are crowd-pleasing bites that feature perfectly boiled eggs and a velvety filling of creamy yolks, tangy mayo, and zesty mustard!
Sausage Balls
This Sausage Ball Recipe is the perfect party appetizer! Sausage is rolled with Bisquick baking mix, cheddar cheese, and spices and baked until golden-brown.
Bacon Crackers
These Bacon Crackers are the perfect combination of sweet, salty, and smoky! This easy holiday appetizer is a cinch to make and always a crowd pleaser.
Candied Pecans
Candied Pecans two ways! These ultra crunchy, oven baked, sweet and salty nuts are perfect for snacking and gifting!
Bacon Wrapped Dates Recipe
These 3 ingredient Bacon Wrapped Dates are a crowd favorite! Only 20 minutes to whip up this sweet and salty appetizer!
Chicken Quesadilla
This Chicken Quesadilla is crispy on the outside and stuffed with juicy chicken, tender veggies, and loads of gooey cheese. These easy quesadillas are a crowd favorite!
Turkey Smoked Sausage Dip in Mini Bread Bowls
Turkey Smoked Sausage Dip in Mini Bread Bowls are life changing. Pre-made dinner rolls stuffed with turkey smoked sausage, cream cheese, sour cream, tomatoes, green chiles, and spices. The most perfect, portable, ridiculously creamy and delicious tailgating snack!
Bacon Wrapped Jalapeno Poppers
These Jalapeño Poppers are stuffed with a rich and creamy Ranch cheese mixture, wrapped in salty bacon, and baked until hot and bubbly! The perfect crowd pleasing appetizer.
Bacon Wrapped Chicken Tenders
These Bacon Wrapped Chicken Tenders are a quick and easy, crowd pleasing appetizer. Chicken is coated with brown sugar and chili, wrapped in bacon, then baked until ultra juicy!
Pizza Quesadillas
This Pizza Quesadilla has all your favorite pizza toppings sandwiched between two perfectly crispy tortillas! Serve with a side of pizza sauce for dipping!
Pro tip
A french fry and tater tot bar with a ton of different sauces would be really fun and super easy too!
Dips
Chicken Bacon Ranch Dip
This quick and easy Chicken Bacon Ranch Dip is the the ultimate crowd-pleasing appetizer. It's rich, creamy, and loaded with gooey cheese and crispy bacon.
Crack Dip Recipe
This Crack Dip is highly addictive. You've been warned. 😉 Full of cream cheese, bacon, sour cream, spices and more, you're never gonna want to stop eating it!
Loaded Pizza Dip Recipe
This easy Pizza Dip makes the perfect ultra cheesy game-day appetizer! A supreme pizza in dip form, it's packed with meat, veggies, and 4 kinds of cheese!
Black-Eyed Pea Dip
This Black Eyed Pea Dip is sure to bring you good luck in the New Year! This lucky appetizer is ultra creamy, super cheesy, and perfect served with crunchy chips.
Spinach Dip
This cold Spinach Dip is a crowd favorite for a reason! This party dip is ultra creamy, easy to make, and even easier to eat.
Buffalo Chicken Dip
This Buffalo Chicken Dip Recipe is rich, creamy, tangy, and perfectly spicy. Made with tender rotisserie chicken and served with crackers, veggies, or chips!
Spinach Artichoke Dip
This Easy Spinach Artichoke Dip is creamy, cheesy, and packed with artichoke hearts and frozen spinach. This classic appetizer will be a hit at any party!
Easy French Onion Dip
This Easy French Onion Dip Recipe is a classic party appetizer! With just 5 minutes of prep, this creamy caramelized onion deliciousness is the perfect, crowd favorite treat.
Instant Pot Mexican Corn Dip Recipe
Instant Pot Mexican Corn Dip. This easy, cheesy, creamy deliciousness is ready in about 15 minutes and is loaded with cream cheese, fresh corn, mayo, and loads of spices and fresh herbs! The perfect dip for tortilla chips!
Two Ingredient Dips
Two Ingredient Dips - Four Ways! Sausage Dip. Taco Dip. Cream Cheese Salsa Dip. Goat Cheese Dip. Serve with tortilla chips and/or crackers!
Cream Cheese Salsa Dip
This Cream Cheese Salsa Dip requires two ingredients and 30 seconds of prep! It's addicting, it's creamy, it's so easy, and the spice level is up to you!
Easy Pico de Gallo Recipe
This Easy Pico de Gallo Recipe comes together in a matter of minutes! Fresh tomatoes, onion, cilantro, jalapeno, lime, & garlic make this truly delicious.
Easy Guacamole Recipe
This is the BEST Easy Guacamole Recipe. A classic chip dip with fresh ingredients and simple seasonings. The best part? It’s easily customizable!
Sliders
Italian Sliders
These Italian Sliders are quick, easy, and a crowd favorite! These sandwiches are perfect for parties and are filled with meats, gooey cheeses, and a crunchy grinder salad!
Italian Beef Sliders
These Italian Beef Sliders are loaded with tender roast beef, tangy pepperoncini peppers, and gooey provolone cheese all sandwiched between buttery soft Hawaiian rolls.
Pizza Sliders
These Pizza Sliders are the ultimate mash-up! Buttery sweet hawaiian rolls are stuffed with ooey-gooey cheese, juicy pepperoni, and savory pizza sauce.
Buffalo Chicken Sliders
These Buffalo Chicken Sliders are creamy, spicy, and irresistibly cheesy! Tender chicken is smothered in ranch and buffalo sauce then sandwiched between buttery Hawaiian rolls.
Cheeseburger Sliders
These Cheeseburger Sliders are juicy, cheesy, and sure to be a hit at any game day party! These sandwiches are quick, easy, and very customizable.
Chicken Bacon Ranch Sliders
These Chicken Bacon Ranch Sliders are made with sweet hawaiian rolls, an ultra creamy, cheesy filling, and a simply addicting butter sauce. These pull-apart sandwiches are easy to make and so delicious!
Cozy crockpot
Crockpot Meatballs
These Crockpot Meatballs require just 4 ingredients and 5 minutes of prep! Serve them over rice, mashed potatoes, or eat them as-is. They're so versatile, so easy-to-make, and SO YUMMY!
Slow Cooker Chex Mix
This Slow Cooker Chex Mix is easy to make and so addicting! A homemade version of a classic snack made with chex, crackers, and pretzels tossed in a tangy, slightly spicy sauce.
Loaded Chicken Nachos Recipe
These Loaded Chicken Nachos are absolutely LOADED with crispy chips, tender veggies, flavorful chicken, beans, corn, and of course, LOADS of cheese. Quick, easy, totally customizable, and delicious.
Slow Cooker Mac and Cheese Recipe
This Crock Pot Mac and Cheese is ultra rich and creamy thanks to FOUR kinds of cheese: Asiago, Sharp Cheddar, Monterey Jack, and Gouda! Bonus: the noodles cook directly in the sauce which saves time and dishes!
Mini Cuban Naan Pizzas
These mini cuban naan pizzas might just be the easiest dinner yet! Slow cooker pork paired with ham, naan bread, swiss cheese, mustard, and pickles! 15 minute dinner.
Slow Cooker Cheesy Buffalo Chicken Dip Recipe
This Slow Cooker Cheesy Buffalo Chicken Dip is the snack dreams are made of! Only 5 minutes of prep for this ultra cheesy, perfectly spicy, super creamy chip dip!
Vegetarian and vegan
Air Fryer Pickles
These Air Fryer Pickles are crispy on the outside and juicy in the middle. These are quicker, easier, healthier, and even tastier than the deep fried version!
Vegan Cashew Queso
This Vegan Cashew Queso is ultra creamy, super flavorful, and extremely easy to make! 5 ingredients and a blender, and you're ready to go!
Veggie Pizza
This cold Veggie Pizza has a buttery crescent roll crust and is topped with a ranch cream cheese spread, cheddar cheese, and fresh veggies!
Homemade Air Fryer Pretzel Bites
These Homemade Air Fryer Pretzel Bites are made with refrigerated canned biscuit dough, boiled in a water/baking soda solution, and air fried or baked to golden perfection! Don't forget the butter/garlic powder wash and crunchy sea salt!
Mushroom Brut Brie Recipe
The BEST appetizer yet, this Mushroom Brut Brie is totally impressive, ridiculously easy, and ultra cheesy! Melty brie is topped with brut champagne, buttery mushrooms, and crunchy pistachios!
Cranberry Brie Bites
These Cranberry Brie Bites are melt-in-your-mouth delicious. Made with buttery, golden-brown puff pastry and topped with melty brie cheese, cranberry sauce, and crunchy toppings, these are sure to be a hit at any party!
Warm Walnut Goat Cheese Bites
Warm Walnut Goat Cheese Bites. Goat cheese mixed with honey and spices, rolled in crushed walnuts, and baked until warm!
Air Fryer Buffalo Cauliflower
This Air Fryer Buffalo Cauliflower is a healthy vegetarian twist on a classic game day appetizer! It's spicy, tender, yet crunchy, and great served with ranch or blue cheese!
Caramelized Onion and Mushroom Pizza
This Caramelized Onion and Mushroom Pizza is *almost* as easy to make as it is to eat. 😉 Thin crust topped with onions, mushrooms, spinach, tons of cheese, and a little thyme!
Loaded Queso
This Loaded Queso Recipe is full of cheese, tomatoes, black beans, corn, chiles, taco seasonings, and more! Easy. Cheesy. Gluten Free. Delicious!
Easy Artichoke Dip Stuffed Rolls
Easy Artichoke Dip Stuffed Rolls. Refrigerated biscuits stuffed with an artichoke and jalapeno dip, monterey jack cheese and smothered in butter. YUM.
Seafood
Shrimp Quesadilla
These Shrimp Quesadillas are packed with juicy shrimp, melty cheese, and spices, all wrapped in a toasty flour tortilla and piled with your favorite toppings!
Crab Salad
This Crab Salad is light, yet creamy, and SO easy to make! It's packed with tender imitation crab, crunchy veggies, and is great served on crackers or slider buns.
Salmon Patties
These Salmon Patties are crispy on the outside and fluffy in the middle. Loaded with garlic, Worcestershire sauce, Dijon, hot sauce, and more, this appetizer is packed with flavor!
Shrimp Dip
This ultra creamy Shrimp Dip can be made with fresh, frozen, or canned shrimp! This classic party appetizer is easy to make and even easier to eat.
Crab Rangoon Dip
This Crab Rangoon Dip is ultra creamy, served with extra crispy wonton chips, and drizzled with sweet chili sauce! This dip has the everything you love about crab rangoons, but made easier.
Smoked Salmon Pinwheels
These Smoked Salmon Pinwheels are perfect for easy and elegant holiday entertaining. Quick and easy to make with only four ingredients: tortillas, a lemon pepper and asiago spread, smoked salmon, and spinach!
Bang Bang Shrimp
This Bang Bang Shrimp is crispy, saucy, and flavorful! Crunchy, yet juicy fried shrimp is tossed with a creamy, sweet and spicy sauce.
Crab Cake Recipe
This Crab Cake Recipe is light, fresh, crispy, and paired with a creamy crab cake sauce. Ready in under 20 minutes, making it the perfect appetizer for any get-together!
Kid friendly
You’ve gotta have some snacks for the kiddos trying to make it to midnight!
Air Fryer Tater Tots
These Air Fryer Tater Tots are crispy on the outside and fluffy in the middle! Serve them plain with dipping sauces or turn them into Tatchos (loaded tater tot nachos!)
Pigs in a Blanket
Pigs in a Blanket made with little smokies, buttery biscuits, and stuffed with gooey cheese – this bite sized appetizer is always a hit!
Air Fryer Pizza Rolls
These Air Fryer Pizza Rolls are a homemade version of a childhood classic! These pepperoni pizza rolls are perfectly crispy on the outside and ooey-gooey cheesy in the middle.
Chicken Tenders
These Baked Chicken Tenders are juicy on the inside, crispy on the outside, and so easy to make. Kids and adults alike will go nuts for these!
Air Fryer Bagel Bites
This Air Fryer Bagel Bites Recipe is a homemade version of a childhood favorite. These mini pepperoni pizzas are insanely quick, chewy, crispy, and of course, super cheesy.
Air Fryer Corn Dogs
These Air Fryer Corn Dogs are juicy in the middle and crispy on the outside! An easy and healthier way to make perfectly cooked frozen corn dogs that taste deep fried!
Air Fryer Fried Ravioli
Air Fryer Fried Ravioli. A classic, lightened up! Cheese ravioli is coated in breadcrumbs, panko, parmesan, and spices, and air fried (or baked) to perfection! Serve with your favorite dipping sauce. Quick, easy, delicious!
Slow Cooker Chex Mix
This Slow Cooker Chex Mix is easy to make and so addicting! A homemade version of a classic snack made with chex, crackers, and pretzels tossed in a tangy, slightly spicy sauce.
Air Fryer Frozen French Fries
These Air Fryer Frozen French Fries are easy to make and perfectly crispy. Serve with your favorite dipping sauce or turn them into loaded cheese fries with all the toppings — the choice is yours!
