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20 Elegantly Easy New Year’s Eve Appetizers

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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.

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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

6 deviled quail eggs garnished with flake salt on a marble table with baby's breath flowers in the corners.
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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6 deviled quail eggs garnished with flake salt on a marble table with baby's breath flowers in the corners.

2. Mini Bacon and Onion Pasties

A metal tray of small pasties beside a spoon with sauce.
Recipe from itsnotcomplicatedrecipes.com
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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A metal tray of small pasties beside a spoon with sauce.

3. Skirt Steak Appetizers with Concord Grape Reduction

7 steak appetizers on a marble slate, garnished with tiny grapes, arugula and dripping cheese.
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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A steak appetizer, garnished with tiny grapes and a single leaf, on a marble slate, with cheese dripping over the sides.

4. Pretty Prosciutto Rose Appetizers

6 crackers with cream cheese, 3 prosciutto roses and dill on marble.
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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A cracker with cream cheese, 3 prosciutto roses and 2 sprigs of dill on marble.

5. Elegant Apricot and Goat Cheese Appetizers

About 20 apricot appetizers on a plate, garnished with thyme.
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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About 20 apricot appetizers on a plate, garnished with thyme.

6. Beet Napoleon Appetizers with Prosciutto Roses

6 beet napoleons, with prosciutto roses on top, garnished with cilantro leaves on a plate.
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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A small beet napoleon, with a prosciutto rose on top, on a white plate.

7. Vegan Mushroom Pâté with Roasted Garlic

4 mushroom pâté canapés garnished with scallions and flowers on a marble slate.
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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A bowl of mushroom pate, surrounded by rice crackers and green flower stems.

8. Pesto Zucchini Rosettes

6 pesto zucchini rosettes on a wooden board.
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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1 zucchini rosette on a wooden board.

9. Blistered Shishito Peppers with Soy Sauce, Sesame & Lime

Blistered shishito peppers on a slate with a slice on 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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Blistered shishito peppers on a slate with a lime slice.

10. Caponata alla Siciliana

4 caponata crostini on a wooden board, in front of a bowl of caponata.
Recipe from veggiedesserts.com
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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4 caponata crostini on a wooden board, in front of a bowl of caponata.

11. Crispy, Baked Cauliflower Cakes with Roasted Garlic Sour Cream

5 cauliflower cakes on a wooden board, topped with marinara, cream, and a little fresh parsley.
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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A cauliflower appetizer topped with tomato, cream and parsley beside 4 others on a wooden tray.

12. Goat’s Cheese Croquettes

9 goat cheese croquettes on a plate.
Recipe from amummytoo.co.uk
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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9 goat cheese croquettes on a plate.

13. The Pesto Scallop Amuse Bouche

A small shell on a plate containing 3 small scallops, pesto cream and mustard caviar.
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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A small shell on a plate containing 3 small scallops, pesto cream and mustard caviar.

14. Bacon Wrapped Water Chestnuts

6 bacon-wrapped chestnuts on a slate beside a scallion sauce.
Recipe from www.simplystacie.net
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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6 bacon-wrapped chestnuts on a slate beside a scallion sauce.

15. Prosciutto-Wrapped Asparagus with Goat Cheese

A pile of prosciutto wrapped in asparagus on a dark slate.
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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A pile of prosciutto wrapped in asparagus on a dark slate.

16. Antipasti Crostini

3 antipasti appetizers with cheese, olives, meat and rosemary on a plate.
Recipe from threeolivesbranch.com
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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3 antipasti appetizers with cheese, olives, meat and rosemary on a plate.

17. Turkey Meatballs with Pesto and Mozzarella

A sliced meatball on a plate with melted cheese inside, in front of 7 other meatballs.
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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A sliced meatball on a plate with melted cheese inside, in front of other meatballs.

18. Sweet Potato Rounds with Goat Cheese

3 sweet potato rounds, garnished with cheese, cranberries and crushed nuts.
Recipe from chiselandfork.com
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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3 sweet potato rounds, garnished with cheese, cranberries and crushed nuts.

19. Dill Chicken Salad Sliders with Puff Pastry Buns

Chicken salad sliders on a marble board surrounded by arugula.
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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Fingers holding a chicken salad slider, up close, with other siders in the background.

20. Prosciutto-Wrapped Pears with Arugula

A hand reaching for 1 of 7 prosciutto-wrapped pears, garnished with pomegranate seeds on a plate.
Recipe from cookathomemom.com
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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A hand reaching for 1 of 7 prosciutto-wrapped pears, garnished with pomegranate seeds on a plate.
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  1. Alyse

    They all look lovely! Thank you for sharing!

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    • Genevieve Morrison

      Thank you!

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