Not sure what our New Year’s Eve plans are yet but you can be sure it will involve festive New Year’s Eve Desserts. I have quite a collection of desserts but these are the best desserts for New Year’s Eve.
Many of these desserts can be made ahead of time and several of these desserts can use up frozen fruit, which I usually have in my freezer.
Absolutely Perfect Almond Cake
This recipe come from a dear friend of mine. It’s adapted from Alice Medrich’s Pure Desserts. The recipe is true to its name; it is absolutely perfect! This cake is very rich so you only need small slices. I served it with Ginger Ice Cream and my company asked for seconds! That good! It would also be delicious with fresh fruit. Tightly wrapped the cake keeps for several days.
What better way to welcome in the New Year than with a Nantucket Welcome Cake! I found this recipe years ago in the Nantucket newspaper. I’ve been making it ever since and it’s always a hit. One of these days I’ll modify the recipe to have the whole thing be from scratch but it the meantime I will continue to use the recipe as is.
Perhaps you’re like me and have never heard the word affogato. My daughter shared this fabulous dessert just before the holidays and it was so easy and delicious. Affogato describes and names a dessert composed of espresso poured over a scoop of vanilla ice cream or gelato. What could be simpler!
Are you looking for a low fat dessert to serve over the holidays? These Chocolate Mint Brownies are just the thing. No one will ever know they are low fat!
This recipe is similar to an apple crisp but made with blueberries.
This recipe is from one of my favorite books; Simply In Season. This book is full of recipes that celebrate fresh, local foods and encourages you to eat in season! Fall and winter is a perfect time to make apple crisp.
This recipe can be made with fresh or frozen rhubarb. Enjoy the taste of summer this New Year’s Eve!
Not only is this a killer brownies recipe but the frosting helps use up those leftover candy canes!
I’m sure many of you have fond memories of those delicious icebox cakes made with the Nabisco Famous Chocolate Wafers. In all the years of enjoying them I never thought to make them as individual cakes. However I came across this recipe in a book called Cook What You Love by Bob and Melinda Blanchard. This recipe makes the most elegant but extremely simple dessert. You make it several hours ahead or even a day ahead so the cookies have time to soften and then serve as a fancy dessert the next night. This is my favorite choice when choosing festive New Year’s Eve desserts!
One of my favorite recipes to make is my Aunt Cathleen’s Fresh Apple Cake. My aunt shared this recipe years ago with my mom and it has been a family favorite ever since! It is delicious anytime of the year but especially good in the fall when the apples are fresh.
No matter what your plans are for New Years Eve having a selection of festive New Year’s Eve desserts will help you celebrate in style.
Nancy on the Home Front 
SO many delicious options here and lots of new recipes to try. Thanks for sharing. Pinned.
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Everything looks delicious, Nancy. I especially like the Nantucket Welcome Cake – what a fabulous name for a dessert! I also like the idea of using up leftover cranberry in that lovely Cranberry Apple Crisp. Sharing on the Hearth and Soul Facebook page.Thank you so much for sharing and for being a part of the Hearth and Soul Community! Wishing you a Happy, healthy and prosperous New Year, my friend!
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April,
I have to say the Nantucket Welcome Cake is my favorite! 🙂
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Those Candy Cane brownies look absolutely yummy! So do most of the other recipes too, for that matter! Hmmmm…..guess I’m getting fat for New Year’s. LOL
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Dawn,
The rest of the year I am pretty good about my diet but not over the holidays! 🙂
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A great collection of desserts! Thanks so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday in 2019 and hope you will include the party in 2020. Wishing you and your family a very Happy New Year!
Miz Helen
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