New Year’s Eve is the perfect time to celebrate with desserts that feel special but are easy to make. These 25+ New Year’s Eve dessert ideas are creative, delicious, and sure to impress your guests! Whether you’re hosting a party or bringing a treat to share, these recipes will add a festive touch to your celebration without spending hours in the kitchen.
New Year’s Eve Dessert Recipes
From sparkly bite-sized treats to rich, show-stopping sweets, these desserts are perfect for any New Year’s gathering. They’re simple to make but look so impressive! From champagne-infused cupcakes to chocolate-dipped treats, each recipe is incredibly easy to make and SO delicious.
Here are our top 25+ New Year’s Eve Desserts to end the year on a sweet note!
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1. Nutella Puff Pastry
Easy, quick, and made with only 5 ingredients – this Nutella Puff Pastry recipe is the BEST! With the perfect ratio of Nutella and pastry, baked to golden brown, and 25 minutes total time, you’ll want to make them again and again. They’re perfect for New Year’s Eve dessert that even kids will love!
2. Churro Cheesecake Bars
Indulge in the perfect combination of cinnamon, sugar, and creamy cheesecake with these easy and delicious Churro Cheesecake Bars. The flaky crescent roll dough is filled with a sweet and tangy cheesecake mixture. Cinnamon sugar is sprinkled in between, and on top, making every bite SO TASTY!
3. Butterscotch Pecan Pie
This Butterscotch Pecan Pie is the best of the best! With a buttery, flaky pie crust and a gooey pecan pie filling that’s taken to the next level with the cozy, sweet, and warming flavors of real butterscotch, this dessert is incredibly delicious. Top it off with whipped cream and a butterscotch drizzle for a recipe that will leave everyone wanting more!
4. Kitchen Sink Cookies
With a soft, chewy center and a lightly crisp, browned edge, these Kitchen Sink Cookies (or Everything Cookies) may just be the best cookie recipe I’ve ever had! Made with chocolate chips, chocolate chunks, toffee bits, and chopped pretzels, these giant, thick bakery-style cookies are SO good.
5. Monster Cookie Bars
These super simple Monster Cookie Bars are ready to bake in just 10 minutes! The chewy oatmeal peanut butter cookie base is full of chocolate chips and M&M’s making them an irresistible treat. With this recipe, you’ll get perfectly chewy, melt-in-your-mouth Monster Cookie Bars every single time!
6. Easy Coffee Cake
This Easy Coffee Cake Recipe is simple but impressive and always a crowd-pleaser! The rich cake is sweet, but not overly sweet, layered with a nutty cinnamon filling, and topped with an irresistible streusel topping. It’s everything we love in classic coffee cake, but taken up a notch in flavor and texture!
7. Chocolate Strawberry Upside Down Cupcakes
These fluffy strawberry cupcakes are covered in an easy chocolate ganache and look like a perfect little mini-cake! They are reminiscent of a chocolate-dipped strawberry, a little more special than a traditional cupcake, and so fun to serve. These are one of the BEST New Year’s Eve Desserts!
8. Buttermilk Pie Bars
These Buttermilk Pie Bars are an easy and fun updated take on a classic dessert. The tangy custard filling is cooked on top of a buttery flakey crust, and all in less than 1 hour! These heavenly, easy-to-serve bars are going to be your new go-to for holiday gatherings. If you love buttermilk pie, you’ll love this easy bar variation!
9. Raspberry Chocolate Hazelnut Pie
This Raspberry Chocolate Hazelnut Pie is easy to make, can be prepped in just 20 minutes, and has been my top go-to no-bake pie recipe for YEARS. The silky texture, chocolate hazelnut flavor, nutty crisp crust, and sweet and tart topping are the closest thing to dessert magic that exists. Every bite is full of creamy, chocolatey perfection!
10. Nutter Butter Cookies
Perfect copycat Nutter Butter Cookies that whip up in just 10 minutes! They’re naturally gluten-free, have only 7 ingredients, and are a breeze to make. We cannot get enough of the crispy, peanut-buttery delights.
11. Oreo Fudge
Oreo Fudge doesn’t have to be complicated to make! This version doesn’t require a candy thermometer. But it does require lots of Oreo cookie bits, which no one will ever complain about. This is one of our favorite New Year’s Eve Desserts!
12. Pumpkin delight recipe
This Pumpkin Delight is the hands-down BEST pumpkin dessert recipe! With layers of pumpkin spice graham cracker crust, cream cheese pumpkin fluff, and maple whipped cream topping, every bite is full of pumpkin cheesecake fluffy goodness!
13. Best chocolate cake
This is hands-down the BEST Chocolate Cake recipe! After tons of testing, I can honestly say this chocolate cake has been perfected for a light and fluffy, yet sweet and fudgy taste and texture that’s incredible. While it tastes delicious, it’s also super easy to make and works every time!
14. Turtle Pie Recipe
One of the ULTIMATE New Year’s Eve Desserts! This Turtle Pie Recipe is a dream come true. With a velvety chocolate crust, a cream cheese filling, gooey caramel drizzle, and crunchy chocolate pecan topping, it truly doesn’t get any better than this!
15. Baked Apple Croissant
This Starbucks-inspired Baked Apple Croissant recipe has been tested to perfection and is about to become your new fall obsession! With only 7 ingredients, these flaky, soft, cinnamon apple-filled treats couldn’t be simpler to make. It’s the perfect way to kick off the season with something truly special.
16. Cranberry bliss bars
These Cranberry Bliss Bars are absolutely one of the best New Year’s Eve Desserts! Fluffy and sweet blondies that are full of orange, cranberry, and ginger flavors topped with a fluffy cream cheese icing, dried cranberries, vegan white chocolate drizzle, and orange zest. Every bite is melt-in-your-mouth good!
17. Maple Whiskey Pudding Cake
Maple Whiskey Pudding Cake made with bourbon, brown sugar, maple syrup, and pecans. Top it off with ice cream for an easy-to-make dessert recipe that everyone will be completely obsessed with!
18. No-Bake Mini Cheesecake Bites
No-Bake Mini Cheesecake Bites are easy to make and so satisfyingly tasty! The tangy and creamy filling sits on a perfectly crisp graham cracker crust, and you don’t have to bake a thing. No springform pans or water baths are needed for these delicious desserts!
19. Easy Pecan Pie Bars
These Pecan Pie Bars are always my go-to dessert for holiday gatherings! I’ve been making this recipe for YEARS and it’s always such a hit. All of the goodness of melt-in-your-mouth pecan pie, but in an easy pie bar form!
20. Honeybun Cake
Satisfy your sweet tooth with this easy and flavorful Homemade Honeybun Cake Recipe! It’s been tested to perfection, so this fool-proof easy-to-make sheet pan cake recipe works every time. Moist and bursting with honey and cinnamon flavors, this dessert is sure to be a hit with family and friends!
21. Cannoli Bites
In these cannoli bites, frozen phyllo tart shells steps in for the cannoli shell, while a simple mix of ricotta, sugar, orange, and vanilla create our decadent filling that nails a perfect balance of rich and sweet.
22. Snickers Brownies
Snickers Brownies that are truly the BEST. A perfectly crinkly top with a gooey, fudgy, and chocolaty center, these brownies are made with real snickers bars and peanuts. Top them with caramel and extra chocolate for a next level treat. Every bite is melt-in-your-mouth perfection!
23. Red Velvet Oreo Cheesecake
Creamy and sweet, this Red Velvet Oreo Cheesecake is perfect for celebrating any occasion! It’s easy to make and incredibly beautiful. Make this show-stopping red velvet cheesecake recipe for a dessert that’s perfect for New Year’s Eve!
24. Chocolate Cherry Crumble Dessert Bars
Chocolate Cherry Crumble Dessert Bars made with wholesome oats, almond flour, creamy chocolate, and seasonal cherries. The perfect sweet treat for New Year’s Eve!
25. Tiramisu Cupcakes
The BEST Tiramisu Cupcakes for any occasion! Made with fluffy vanilla cupcakes that are soaked in a melt-in-your-mouth coffee syrup and topped off with a creamy mascarpone cheese icing. There is nothing like these cupcakes for a next-level dessert that’s impressive and delicious!
26. Chocolate Covered Rice Krispies Treats
These Chocolate Covered Rice Krispies Treats are the BEST quick and easy dessert recipe! Gooey, buttery rice krispies treats topped with a layer of delicious dark chocolate and sprinkles (or any topping) to take them to next level. Make this recipe in less than 15 minutes, refrigerate or set at room temperature, and enjoy!
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