New Years Eve Party Buffet

This New Years Eve party buffet for adults is just what your guests will need to continue the celebration. The theme is a breakfast appetizer buffet to ring in the new year at midnight. It’s also a fun idea for New Years Day brunch or a small wedding where you’ve danced the night away!

festive party food buffet for New Years Eve at home.

After all these years, New Year’s Eve is still one of my favorite nights to get together with friends and celebrate a new beginning.

Since New Years Eve parties usually start later than most, guests arrive having already eaten dinner. However, once midnight strikes and the bubbly is flowing, you definitely want to have party food available. Enter my midnight “breakfast” appetizer buffet.

New Years Eve Midnight Buffet

This is such a fun twist for a late night celebration. Since midnight is technically the next morning, I thought it would be fun to use breakfast food as inspiration for a midnight party buffet.

But this party idea can also work perfectly for a New Year’s Day brunch buffet. Instead of staying up late to see the ball drop, get a good night’s sleep and invite friends over for a new year breakfast.

You can see the full menu is a play on breakfast foods, but served as party appetizers.

festive party food buffet at home for New Years Eve, decorated in black and gold and silver.

Buffet Decorations

Make your buffet table sparkle and shine with festive fringe, hanging banners, and over-sized balloons. The shiny balloon fringe was cut to size from a long piece of garland found at the party store. It’s a tri-colored garland which adds great interest without any extra work from you (see  how I used it as a backdrop for this graduation party).

You can’t celebrate New Years without balloons so make sure you have some to highlight your party table. Use a helium tank (I like Balloon Time) to blow up jumbo sized balloons and flank the buffet table. To hold them in place, just tie on a string and tape it to the underside of the table. Wrap and tape the decorative fringe around the tail of the balloon, and let it fall to the floor.

Hang some pretty banners above to finish the look and add height and interest above the table.

Decorations on New Years eve party buffet, with paper fans and table sign.

Details

Add a FREE printable NYE sign to your table because signage is always fun.

DIY party poppers with mini bowties attached.

Add diy mini bowties to your confetti poppers using glue dots.

champagne bottle tied with shiny fringe, with filled glasses for new years eve.

Add small tassels to the neck of your champagne bottle for a festive touch.

white box filled with shiny fringe and noise makers and masks for new years eve.

Make sure you have plenty of New Years Eve party blowers, noise makers, masks, and confetti poppers to help bring in the new year with a bang!

Supplies Checklist

  • Streamers
  • Balloons & helium tank
  • Paper Ornaments
  • Disco Balls
  • Hanging Banners
new years eve party decorations with text overlay with appetizer menu.

Menu

Set up the party buffet with finger food and small bites that are delicious and hit the spot after a night of drinking and dancing or game play.

These food ideas incorporate traditional breakfast items like bacon and eggs, and waffles and milk into late night appetizers.

bacon wrapped little smokies on white platter.

Finger Food

Turn classic breakfast meats like bacon and sausage into a buffet appetizer with bacon-wrapped smokies. You can use pork or beef Lil Smokies.

Bacon Appetizers

Wrap the bacon around the little weenies and freeze for a make-ahead option. Add the brown sugar on top just before baking.

egg salad on crostini served on gold doily on white plate.

Egg Appetizers

Eggs and toast become egg salad crostini. This is a terrific way to turn a traditional breakfast food into a midnight party appetizer.

For convenience you can buy prepared egg salad in the deli section of the grocery store. Or you can make your own a day ahead.

Make sure the crostini is nice and toasted so it holds up to the moist salad.

bite size chicken nuggets on mini waffles for appetizer buffet.

Chicken & Waffles

Serve mini chicken n’ waffles drizzled with honey or maple syrup. My best tip for this is to go ahead and buy a bunch of chicken nuggets from Chick-fil-a, because they are the best quality and flavor.

You’ll find mini waffles in the frozen breakfast food section of the grocery store. Warm them through, attach a chicken nugget with a pick, and serve on a tray. Let guests add the drizzle topping themselves.

white powdered donuts stacked on top of each other on white place with Celebrate party pick on top.

Dessert

Keep the sweet options light since it’s late night. The options here are a food and drink pairing that create an indulgent treat.

Donuts

A donut “cake” stack made with mini powdered doughnuts is an adorable centerpiece. Top the stack with a laser cut cake topper.

white drink in coup glasses.

“Grown Up” Milk

To wash things down, serve “grown-up milk” cocktails, and champagne of course.

golden jello shot cubes inside mini martini glasses.

Champagne With a Twist

But that’s not the only way to serve the bubbly at this party. These champagne jello squares are a fabulous addition that your guests will LOVE. And the golden color looks so pretty.

Serve the champagne jello squares in a mini cocktail glass garnished with a strawberry, because…champagne and strawberries go great together!

This new years eve party buffet is easy to put together and tastes terrific. You can prepare most of the items ahead of time, and nothing is overly complicated or labor intensive.

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4 Comments

  1. What a gorgeous spread! And I love the idea of incorporating breakfast foods into the menu. Those champagne jello cubes are fabulous!!!

  2. The black and gold is so very perfect, you brought this party together so wonderfully!

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