New Year’s Desserts

Introducing New Year’s desserts for your gorgeous white and silver themed New Year’s desserts table…

This easy New Year’s desserts menu can be done with homemade, or purchased desserts. The idea is to keep it simply elegant, so you can enjoy the New Year’s party too! All of these desserts will store well, with exception of the cupcakes. So, either make your New Year’s desserts ahead of time… or buy them already done. You choose.

The New Year’s desserts menu:

* White chocolate cupcakes
* Cake pops
* Meringue tarts with plum glaze
* Snowflake sugar cookie trees
* Vanilla bean marshmallows
* Pomegranate gumdrops (recipe here!)

6 Stunning New Year’s desserts, here’s how to do it…

White chocolate cupcakes:

We picked up our cupcakes on the day of the party. Elegant and simple, with our desserts table set and ready to go, we just placed our desserts on the platters and were ready to party with the guests.

Cake pops:

These classy New Year’s desserts look like snowballs with the sprinkling of coarse sugar. We displayed them in Sheer Elegance Sweet Petites, the new cake pop kit by Confetti Couture. The cake pops were super simple using this cake pop maker, so we created our own. They are bite sized cake balls on a lollipop stick! Dipped in white chocolate, they are deliciously coordinated.

Meringue tarts:

Take the elegance to new heights with these frothy egg whites slow baked to perfection and filled with a sweet and tart fruity glaze.

Snowflake sugar cookies:

We created these beauties ourselves, too. Gorgeous stacks of white snowflakes create pretty snow covered “trees” on our New Year’s desserts table. Sugar cookies freeze well, so you can make them far in advance, and even frost them, too. Just pull them out a couple hours before your New Year’s party and let them thaw unwrapped.

Marshmallows:

The marshmallows are also homemade on our New Year’s desserts table. They are truly, so easy to make. They can be bought this way, too. We used Sweet Stickz, wooden lollipop sticks from Confetti Couture, to display them.

Pomegranate Gumdrops (see the recipe here):

Of course, you could buy these, but we wanted to have perfectly fresh, elegantly flavored pomegranate gumdrops! So, we made these, too. Yes, we are a teensy bit particular about the details on our New Year’s desserts display!

Use our New Year’s Desserts table photo as a guide for setting your platters and filling them…

Cake Pop Kits

NEW! Cake Pop Kits for displaying those precious cake pops are here! They’re called Sweet Petite Kits… and they are so SWEET.

Cake pops are the IT dessert right now. Amazing cake pop artists are creating everything from Mr. Potato head to turkey cake pops… and everything in between. The challenge? Display.

Lay them flat—not much drama. So, you go for height—and push the sticks into something. Then, the cake pop slides… down… the… stick. What to do?

Enter Sweet Petite Kits- the new cake pops display kit from Confetti Couture. Each kit contains 12 wooden lollipop sticks… just like the sticks for rock candy. CHARMING. The little wooden bead on top just gets me every time. You also get 12 crystal clear bags and 12 mini reversible wrappers for resting your gorgeous creation, ever so elegantly. Finally, the finishing touch… each cake pop kit contains 12 closures for embellishing the lollipop sticks. DARLING. 

Get yours today. They are perfect for holiday entertaining and gift giving.

4 Activities for a Classroom Halloween Party - Halloween Party Ideas

These easy Halloween craft ideas and Halloween party game ideas will keep the kids busy and giggling through your entire party. It’s always better to have too much to do, because you can always stash the extras away for a rainy day. Running out of activities for the classroom party can mean chaos, so bring more than you think you’ll need.

Mad Scientist Lab- Halloween cupcake and cake pop decorating

You will need:
Donut holes
Lollipop sticks
Slow cooker set to warm- to keep chocolate or candy melts melted
Unfrosted cupcakes
Frosting
Sprinkles, decorations, Dessert Skirtz cupcake wrappers

How to set up the cupcake and cake pop decorating center:

Melt the chocolate and put into warm slow cooker
Push a stick into each donut hole
Set out unfrosted cupcakes
Set out decorations

Have each child dip the donut hole to make a cake pop. While it is still wet, have them sprinkle the cake pop with decorations. They can frost a cupcake and decorate that as well. A clear plastic cup is an easy and inexpensive packaging idea for cupcakes. Just drop the cupcakes in into a clear plastic cup to send the treats home if you choose to not serve them as the snack during the party. The cupcake wrappers will show through the cup for a sweetly spooky party treat to go!

Have the kids make their own (cheap!) Halloween Party Favors

You will need:

Brown lunch sacks, one per child
Raffia
Glue
Markers
Popcorn, caramel corn, candy corn… any flavors of popcorn you choose.
Cups or scoops

First, have the class create their scarecrow treat bags. We found these adorable Halloween treat sacks on the Family Fun website. Set the bags aside to let the glue dry while you do other activities.

At the end of the party, allow the children to fill their own bags with their favorite mix of popcorn from the Popcorn Buffet. Staple the tops closed, and they have made a darling Halloween party favor to take with them… for pennies!

Lollipop Ghost Craft

You will need:
Lollipops- one per child
White napkins- one per child
Markers
Twist ties- one per child
Ribbon- optional- 5 inch lengths, one per child
Zip-top bags

How to prepare for the activity:

Cut the ribbon into 5 inch lengths
Into each zip-top bag, put one lollipop, one napkin, on twist tie, and a ribbon if you choose
Bring extras! Use one kit to make an example of the lollipop ghost while you are showing the children what to do.

How to make Lollipop Ghosts:
Give each child a prepared bag of lollipop ghost “ingredients”
With the napkin still folded, place the ball of the lollipop in the center of the napkin. Pull the corners up to the stick and fasten the napkin to the lollipop with the twist tie.
Tie a ribbon around the twist tie. This step is too difficult for small children, so have helpers, or omit it. Children older than eight can usually do this independently.

Halloween pumpkin bowling

You will need:
Medium sized pumpkin
Bottles of water
Food coloring
Strong glue
Masking tape

How to prepare for the activity:
Open the water bottles and drop food coloring into the water. Green, orange, purple… make it festive.
Put a line of glue inside the cap of the bottle (on the threads) and screw it back onto the water bottle.
Shake to mix the coloring into the water, and let sit to allow the glue to dry

Embellish the outside with a label or scrapbook paper that coordinates with the party theme,
if you wish.

Put a line of tape on the floor, and take about 3 – 5 paces and set up the water bottle “pins”. Use your judgment on the distance, depending on the children’s ages.

How to play Halloween Pumpkin Bowling:
Have each child stand behind the line and roll the pumpkin at the “pins”.