What are some good ideas for a snack table at a Christmas party?!
Answers: I need a drink, cupcake, cookie, and something else unique. And try to keep it festive!
some candy canes might be cute. maybe some egg nog, or apple cider. i don't know about festive things but people seem to like chips and some sort of dip. if you make rice crispy treats and shape them into balls and roll them in flaked coconut you can call them snow balls. i always have carmel apples at my party. i also make brownies and use christmas tree cookie cutters to cut them out. maybe some kind of hot appetizer like pigs in a blanket and if you get those toothpicks with the different colors you can use the red and green ones and make it look festive. oh and sugar cookies are always festive.
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For our Christmas party we always have chocolate covered pretzels. Over top of the white or dark chocolates we stripe on green and red chocolates or green and red sprinkles. It's fun and relatively easy.
You could just buy those at the store though.
Christmas punch! -
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I think the cheese balls always look great and they are yummy. My favorite item is a snack mix, like Chex Snack Mix.
Make one of those bowls with ice cream floating in it. Cookies cake brownies and cutup veggies with a lite dip. A good dip i package of Lipton French Onion mix and stir it into a 2 cup sour cream container. Mixer works good. Put in fridge overnight and all the hungry people will love it to dip in.
my favorites are sausage balls,bbq smokies,cheeseball and crackers,shrimp dip,cheeseburger dip,cheese noodles,a veggie tray,meat tray,pecan squares,oatmeal cookies,sugar cookies,coconut macroons,fruit punch made with lime sherbet,seasoned nuts,fudge,chocolate chip cookies.
This is the BEST Rum Punch! I'm making it again friday for our party.
FRUIT PUNCH WITH RUM
1 can frozen orange juice
1 can frozen lemonade
1 (2 liter) bottle 7-UP
3/4 can light rum (can from orange juice)
1 can fruit cocktail
Mix juices and rum together. Add 7-UP; do not stir too hard. Then pour fruit cocktail in with ice cubes.
Usually we do a hot, mulled cranberry-apple cider with lemon and cranberries floating in it - just buy a few litres of cider, a bottle of cranberry cocktail, and warm them in a pot with 3 or 4 cinnamon sticks and a teaspoon of cloves. If you want alcohol, you can add a little spiced rum, or find a recipe for mulled wine (Gluhwein or Glogg) - everyone loves it.
We usually have a savoury snack as well - I've done red tomato tartlets - you just buy tart shells and fill them with drained, spiced, canned, pureed tomatoes and bake at 350 til done.
If you want to stick with sweet, spice-coated nuts are good because the protein keeps everyone feeling full. I love them.
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Cupcakes are easy - just do a chocolate cupcake with a mint frosting, or do vanilla frosting with some snowy-looking sparkles or Christmas decorations. Same for cookies - everyone loves a good Christmas cookie.
for a drink the one everyone loves is eggnog, spiked or not. some simple cupcakes are you just take a cake mix, and put is in a muffin tin, then decorate them with butter cream frosting, and throw red and green sprinkles on it. sugar cookies, in x-mas shapes with icing on them. maybe chocolate fondue with fresh fruit.
try candy cane bark all u do is buy in bulk a whole bunch of white chocolate melt it down on the stove poor it in a bowl add some crushed candy canes spread it on a cookie sheet put it in the fridge to harden then pull it out a break it into pieces and serve ... u very festive looking.... u cud also try peanut butter balls... all u need is peanyut butter rice krispies coconut and icing sugar. food colouring (optional) all u do is put a jar of peanut butter and some rice krispies ina bowl and mix together till there well blended then roll them in a ball and dip them in icing sugar which u shud mix with water so it sticks and u can add food colouring to ur icing sugar so its more festive like green and red balls... then u dip them in coconut so they look like colourful snow balls then there ready to serve... try them cold there even better