New Years is here and you want to make it special. However you don’t want to spend hours preparing food and decorating the house. These fun DIY decor ideas and easy to make recipes will give any New Year’s party lot’s of sparkle and glitz and they are all so easy to make!
I started off with a simple theme: I wanted to use silver and gold and give everything an elegant look filled with sparkle. I started my creating easy recipes and adding that elegant glitzy touch to them. Most of these recipes can be done in minutes and for many of them I used store bought items but no one would ever know! Your guests will think you spent hours preparing all the food!
Chocolate & Vanilla Parfaits Recipe
Ingredients
- chocolate pudding
- vanilla pudding
- yellow cake cut into cubes
- silver sugar pearls
- gold pearlized sugar
- whipped cream
- cherries for garnish
Instructions
In a tall cup or glass layer the vanilla pudding, pieces of cake, chocolate pudding, yellow cake and silver sugar pearls. Top with whipped cream and garnish with a cherry and gold pearlized sugar.
Blueberry Champagne Cocktail Recipe
Ingredients
- Champagne or sparkling wine
- fresh or frozen blueberries
- gold pearlized sugar
- gold tassel mixers
Instructions
Pour some gold pearlized sugar on a plate. Wet the rim of your champagne flutes and then dip it into the gold pearlized sugar. Add two or three raspberries to each flute and poor the cold champagne over them.
Gold Marshmallows Recipe
Instructions
- large marshmallows
- gold pearlized sugar
- lollipop sticks
- water
- black ribbon
Instructions
Insert the lollipop sticks into the center of a marshmallow. Fill a cup with about half an inch of water. Dip the marshmallow in the water; it should cover about two-thirds of it when you dip it. Place the marshmallow in a bowl and slowly pour the gold pearlized sugar over it, turning it until two-thirds of the marshmallow is covered. Place on waxed paper and let dry. Make a small bow with the black ribbon and glue it to the lollipop stick with hot glue.
Gold Popcorn Recipe
Ingredients
- microwave popcorn
- gold pearlized sugar
- gold sugar pearls
Instructions
Pop the popcorn in the microwave. Spray just a little olive oil spray, place it in a bowl or individual containers, and sprinkle with gold pearlized sugar and gold sugar pearls; the olive oil will give it a nice shine and help the sugar and pearls stick to it.
Easy DIY New Year’s Decorations
- Tissue paper puffs, which I created using silver tissue paper and gold tissue paper, follow this easy tutorial HERE.
- Gold and silver star confetti.
- Gold and silver tassel garland which I made using gold and silver tinsel I had leftover from the holidays.
- I made the cake banner using gold party straws, metallic silver cord, silver and gold washi tape to make the little flags, and gold tissue paper for the paper puffs at the end of the straws. I placed the banner on a store-bought cake and added a second banner with the numbers of the new year!
- Star wire garland which I glued to the cake stand using a glue gun.
Paula studied architecture and now makes a living as a freelance writer,traveler and amateur photographer.She started her writing & publishing career as the editor of Bebé y Mamá, the first parenting magazine in Guatemala.She is the founder of www.GrowingUpBilingual.com and www.365thingsswfl.com and writes articles in Spanish and English for both magazines and the web on travel,food and bicultural and bilingual parenting .
When she is not on a plane or road trip she likes to create recipes inspired in the flavors of her native Guatemala.
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Love this! It’s gorgeous! Hope you had a wonderful New Years!
Thanks Linette! Hope you had a wonderful New Years as well! 🙂
Too bad I was not able to read your update earlier.