These elegantly easy New Year’s Eve appetizers are elevated and impressive, but won’t take all day to prepare! Enough crispy, crunchy, sweet and savory canapés, crostini, croquettes, pâté, and eye-catching delights for omnivores, vegetarians, and vegans too!
You’ll have such an easy time mixing and matching these beautiful hors d’oeuvres for your glittering New Year’s affair.
I love New Year’s Eve parties! I love having an excuse to dress up fancy and serve extra special treats to my friends!
I certainly love casual cheese plate & crudités evenings with friends and throwing together a quick backyard barbecue, too. But nothing makes me happier than getting fancy, serving elegant cocktails, and covering the evening with glitter!
Help yourself to these gorgeous, festive appetizers of mine, and some lovely recipes from my friends! You have my word that each and every one pairs perfectly with champagne and disco balls!
And if you’re looking for cocktails to pair with these lovely appetizers, help yourself to these 10 sparkling New Year’s Eve Cocktails!
1. Adorable Deviled Quail Eggs
Adorable Deviled Quail Eggs
This deviled quail eggs recipe is so simple, adorable and incredibly tasty! Your teeny, tiny little eggs can be served all on their own, or used to garnish luxurious salads and appetizers!
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2. Mini Bacon and Onion Pasties
Mini Bacon and Onion Pasties
They’re the ideal appetizer to serve with drinks; crisp, flaky pastry filled with a bacon and onion mixture. It is savory goodness in mini form!
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3. Skirt Steak Appetizers with Concord Grape Reduction
Skirt Steak Crostini
These fancy skirt steak crostini include a concord grape reduction and a creamy Florette cheese! It's a perfectly exquisite appetizer for an elegant affair, date night, or any event where you really want to impress your guests! They also take just 30 minutes to make!
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4. Pretty Prosciutto Rose Appetizers
Beef Crostini with Mascarpone Sauce
Beef tenderloin crostini appetizers made with seasoned filet mignon, a creamy mascarpone sauce mixed with paprika, chopped basil, and mayonnaise topped with fresh basil. They’re a tasty yet easy appetizer to put together for the holidays and they will impress your guests!
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5. Elegant Apricot and Goat Cheese Appetizers
Baked Figs with Goat Cheese
Easy 15-minute Baked Figs with Goat Cheese, walnuts, honey and sage recipe. These roasted figs make for an easy appetizer your guests will love!
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6. Beet Napoleon Appetizers with Prosciutto Roses
Beet Napoleons with Prosciutto Roses
No, they’re not red velvet, they’re beautiful beet napoleon appetizers with chive cream cheese and tiny prosciutto roses on top! They're earthy, creamy, and perfectly bite-size!
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7. Vegan Mushroom Pâté with Roasted Garlic
Vegan Mushroom Pâté with Roasted Garlic
This vegan mushroom pâté with creamy roasted garlic and caramelized onion is amazing on its own, or on top of the prettiest, tastiest appetizers at your elegant veggie-friendly party!
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8. Pesto Zucchini Rosettes
Salmon Blinis
Salmon blinis are flavorful and sophisticated, yet so incredibly easy to make! These colorful salmon blinis make the perfect starter for Christmas dinner. This is your ticket to fuss-free holiday entertaining! Post includes Weight Watchers points.
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9. Blistered Shishito Peppers with Soy Sauce, Sesame & Lime
Blistered Shishito Peppers with Soy Sauce, Sesame & Lime
This blistered shishito pepper recipe is the easiest, tastiest crowd-pleasing appetizer for any occasion! With only 4 ingredients and 10 minutes of your time, you’ll be amazed just how tasty and exciting these little peppers can be!
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10. Caponata alla Siciliana
Caponata Alla Siciliana
Caponata alla Siciliana is a traditional vegan Italian eggplant stew from Sicily. It’s easy, versatile and great as a side dish, main or as an appetizer on crostini.
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11. Crispy, Baked Cauliflower Cakes with Roasted Garlic Sour Cream
Crispy, Baked Cauliflower Cakes with Roasted Garlic Sour Cream & Marinara
These mini, baked cauliflower cakes with roasted garlic sour cream and marinara sauce are fantastically crispy, shockingly delicious and (especially) shocking low carb!
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12. Goat’s Cheese Croquettes
Goat’s Cheese Croquettes
Creamy, tangy goat’s cheese and earthy beetroot wrapped in a crisp breadcrumb and drizzled a sweet, spicy maple chive dressing. These are goat’s cheese croquettes and you’re going to love them.
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13. The Pesto Scallop Amuse Bouche
Pesto Scallop Amuse Bouche
What could be more elegant that a pretty little pesto scallop amuse-bouche!? It's so lovely, so special and so simple to make!
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14. Bacon Wrapped Water Chestnuts
Bacon Wrapped Water Chestnuts
I guarantee you if you make these Bacon Wrapped Water Chestnuts, they will not last long. I almost ate this entire batch myself. It’s the type of recipe where you cannot just have one. I eat one and I’m in for it. I have to eat them ALL!
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15. Prosciutto-Wrapped Asparagus with Goat Cheese
Prosciutto-Wrapped Asparagus with Goat Cheese
A savory, bite-size appetizer with perfectly pan-cooked asparagus, prosciutto, and herbed goat cheese.
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16. Antipasti Crostini
ANTIPASTI CROSTINI
These Antipasti Crostini are a perfect party appetizer recipe. Fast and easy to make with lots of Italian flavors!
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17. Turkey Meatballs with Pesto and Mozzarella
Turkey Meatballs with Pesto and Mozzarella
With melted cheese centers and that fresh, Italian pesto flavor, these perfect little appetizers make such an enticing hors d’oeuvre. They’re also gluten-free!
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18. Sweet Potato Rounds with Goat Cheese
Sweet Potato Rounds with Goat Cheese
The perfect healthy appetizer is these easy and tasty sweet potato rounds with goat cheese, dried cranberries, roasted walnuts and then drizzled with some honey and balsamic vinegar. If you’re looking for finger food ideas, there really isn’t a better appetizer out there.
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19. Dill Chicken Salad Sliders with Puff Pastry Buns
Dill Chicken Salad Sliders with Puff Pastry Buns
These precious dill chicken salad sliders are made with a delicious rotisserie chicken salad recipe and crispy, flaky, buttery puff pastry buns!
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20. Prosciutto-Wrapped Pears with Arugula
Easy Prosciutto Wrapped Pears with Arugula
This is the perfect no-cook appetizer for your next holiday party or get-together! Prosciutto Pears with Arugula Salad are deliciously sweet AND savory – plus they’re Whole30, Paleo & Gluten Free!
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Alyse
They all look lovely! Thank you for sharing!
Genevieve Morrison
Thank you!