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!
New year’s eve appetizers
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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 Satay
This Chicken Satay is quick, easy, and packed with flavor. Tender bite-size pieces of chicken are skewered, grilled, then served with a creamy peanut sauce!
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!
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.
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!
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!
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.
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!
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!
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!
Vegetarian new year’s eve appetizers
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.
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!
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!
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!
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.
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.
Gluten free new year’s eve appetizers
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.
Easy Deviled Eggs
These Easy Deviled Eggs are a cinch to make thanks to my trick for making the best hard boiled eggs! They're also delicious and loaded with the creamiest filling of mayo, apple cider vinegar, dijon, horseradish, Worcestershire, relish, salt, paprika, and chives!
Jalapeno Popper Stuffed Dates
Jalapeno Popper Stuffed Dates. Sweet, chewy medjool dates stuffed with a quick and easy cream cheese jalapeno popper filling, and wrapped in bacon . . . these bite sized treats are the perfect combination of sweet, spicy, and savory!
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.
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!
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!
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!
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!
Cajun Fries
These Cajun Fries are vegan, gluten-free, and so easy to make. Russet potatoes are tossed with olive oil and a homemade Cajun seasoning blend then baked until crispy!
Kid friendly new year’s eve appetizers
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 so easy to make and so addicting! This homemade version of a classic snack is made up of chex cereal, Cheez-Its, and mini pretzels tossed in a tangy, salty, and 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!
– Jennifer