New Year’s Eve Recipes

Best New Year’s Eve Recipes

New Year’s Recipes: Scallops with Potato Pancakes

Featured Recipes:

New Year’s Eve Champagne Pairings
Party Recipes for a Crowd
Party Dips
Party Punches
New Year’s Day Brunch
Plus: F&W’s Holiday Guide

New Year’s Eve Bash

« Vinny Dotolo found inspiration for this elegant dish by thinking about New Year's Eve classics. Both Champagne and caviar flavor the butter sauce that he spoons over seared scallops set on mini potato pancakes.

Affordable Party Wines

Music: Cocktail Party for 25 Party Playlist

Quick Appetizers

New Year’s Eve Recipes for a Crowd

« A fabulous small bite for New Year’s Eve, these golden fried arancini are filled with fresh ricotta and a hint of Parmigiano-Reggiano.

Holiday Drinks for a Crowd

Easy Party Snacks for 20

New Year’s Recipes: Ryan Hardy’s Party in Aspen

Ryan Hardy’s New Year’s Party

« Chef Ryan Hardy and sommelier Richard Betts throw a fabulous New Year’s party with rich Gruyère fondue, spicy seafood soup and Betts’s own wines.

Holiday Fondue Recipes

Denim Designer Earnest Sewn’s New Year’s Fiesta

An Intimate New Year’s Eve Dinner

Beautiful Desserts

« At Christmas, Elizabeth Katz of B.R. Guest Restaurants likes to create a tower of fluffy, chocolate-covered cream puffs. The dessert harkens back to her time as a pastry chef in the French kitchen at New York City’s Daniel, where a croquembouche (a pyramid of custard-filled profiteroles draped in caramel and wrapped in spun sugar) was de rigueur at holiday dinners.

Stellar Layer Cakes

French Fantasy Desserts

Chocolate Cookies

« Pastry chef Mathew Rice grew up loving an Oreo-like sandwich cookie called Murray Chocolate Cremes. In this homage, he creates a malty filling for milk-chocolate wafers by mixing butter and sugar with Ovaltine.

Brownie Recipes

Sparkling Wine Cocktails

« This tart Italian cocktail—comprised of just two ingredients—can be mixed before serving or served as a layered drink for New Year’s Eve guests to stir themselves.

Sparkling Wine and Cheese Tasting Party

Best Sparkling Wine Values

Champagne Pairings for New Year’s Eve

« This is Joanne Chang’s Asian riff on deviled eggs, made spicy with hot sauce and wasabi.

Top Prestige Cuvées for Toasts

Affordable Alternatives to Champagne

Champagne Cocktails

« For a big New Year’s Eve party, Kathy Casey recommends premixing the cocktail’s first four ingredients in large batches.

New Year’s Eve with the President of Veuve Clicquot

10 Affordable Champagnes

Value Champagne Picks

Cocktail Party Drinks and Recipes

« Andres Barrera briefly marinates chicken in herbs and cumin before skewering and grilling it; then he serves it with a cool chickpea puree and fiery harissa.

Crackers

Tasty Snacks

New Year’s Recipes: Fast, Make-Ahead Cocktail Party

Fast, Make-Ahead New Year’s Eve Cocktail Party

« These luscious little tomato tartlets are filled with fresh ricotta.

Melissa Clark and Eben Klemm’s Fast Cocktail Party

Classic Cocktails

30-Minute Hors d’Oeuvres

« For these spicy, tangy little hors d’oeuvres, chef Dean Fearing tosses together smoked salmon roasted garlic, lime juice and jalapeño.

F&W’s Irresistible Holiday Hors d’Oeuvres

Tyler Florence’s Quick and Easy Hors d’Oeuvres

Party Dip Recipes

« To give this creamy bean dip a fresh herbal flavor, drizzle it with olive oil blended with a combination of parsley and celery leaves.

Picture-Perfect Party Food

Superfast Party Dishes

Party Punches

« This recipe is easy to multiply for New Year’s Eve crowds. To ensure that a large batch stays chilled without becoming watery, serve it in a punch bowl set in a larger bowl of crushed ice.

Terrific $12-and-Under Wines for Punch

Single-Serving Punches from Mixologist Wayne Collins

Cocktail Guide

Invent Your Own Cocktail Party

« To help wannabe mixologists, rising-star bartender Eric Alperin threw a party at which he taught a handful of friends how to invent an original cocktail.