Happy New Year! Each year our family celebrates with a themed New Year's Eve party and this year the theme was, "An Elf New Year's Eve" based on the movie Elf. Cara baked non-stop for the dessert buffet, including, "A Whole Roll of Cookie Dough Cupcakes" and "Seven Layers of the Candy Cane Forest" cookies. We also had to have a dish of "swirly twirly gumdrops." (This all makes sense if you know the movie!).
We also had Juniors New York style cheesecakes
Our dinner buffet had spaghetti with a side of maple syrup. (Don't think anyone went for the syrup).
And all dishes were inspired by sections of New York City. Thanks to the Keurig we could offer our guests the "World's Best" cup of coffee!
Deirdre wrote, directed, did costumes and set design for the "Elf Saves New Year's" play, starring my brother John as Buddy and Cara as Jovie.
From my family to yours, a happy and healthy 2014!
-Jane