If need recipes for New Year's Eve desserts, try these easy to make recipes for your party including Red Velvet Whoopie Pies, Eggnog Cream Brulee, New Year's Champagne Cake, Cannoli Dessert Calzone, a rich Peanut Butter Pie and five other recipes that will help ring in 2012 with a little sweetness.
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Easy New Year's Eve Dessert Recipes
- Red Velvet Whoopie Pies: A twist on the classic, this is a fun food that everyone with a sweet tooth will love.
- New Year's Champagne Cake: You can't ring in the new year without champagne, so make this simple recipe and toast to 2012.
- Eggnog Crème Brûlée: This easy to make recipe is perfect for a New Year's Eve dinner party. Kick it up with dark rum, bourbon, or brandy.
- Cannoli Dessert Calzone: Mascarpone, ricotta, confectioners' sugar, chocolate chips, and toasted walnuts all inside a fried dough filling. chocolate chips, and toasted walnuts.
- Death by Chocolate: No party is complete without lots of chocolate in a big bowl.
- Snickers Pie: Snickers bars, caramel sauce peanuts, vanilla ice cream, fudge sauce and a chocolate crust ...can life get any better?
- Peanut Butter Pie: Different from Snickers Pie and equally delicious. Peanut butter, hot fudge, a chocolate crust....delicious.
- Frozen Cappucino Chocolate Cake: There's still time to make this before the New Year's Eve party starts. Layers of ice cream, whipped cream, pound cake, chocolate chips and malted milk balls and requires no cooking whatsoever.
- S'Mores Cookie Bars: Keeping with the chocolate theme, these are going to go fast...so hide some for yourself. Chocolate, graham crackers, marshmallows all in an easy to pick-up cookie bar.
- Snickers Bar Brownies: A sweet combination of mini Snickers bars and brownie mix.
Want to add a little nip to your New Year's Eve desserts? The book Booze Cakes: Confections Spiked With Spirits is full of liquor infused dessert recipes such as Tipsy Tiramisu, Rum & Coke Whoopie Pies, Spiked Ice Cream Cake and Strawberry Margarita Cheesecake.
Most stores (including Stop & Shop here in Cranston, Rhode Island) close by 7pm at the latest, so get to the market for the ingredients to make one or more of the New Year's Eve party desserts recipes above.
