Ring in the new year with this festive, fun and fabulously sweet 2026 New Year’s Eve Dessert Board!

a rectangular walnut food board filled with sweets in number containers that spell out 2026.

Customize Your Fun!

Perfect for parties with friends or a cozy countdown at home with family, my 2026 New Year’s Eve Dessert board is bursting with fun, colorful treats that will make everyone say, “YUM!” This board is all about low stress and high impact. It’s easy to assemble, totally customizable, and guaranteed to wow without requiring any cooking.

Whether you’re hosting or just want to surprise your kids with a festive treat, this is the ultimate NYE crowd-pleaser.

Maegan Brown wearing a New Year's Eve party hat showing off a dessert board.

Ingredients and Supplies

See the recipe card at the bottom of this post for board building details. You can also shop my LTK to easily add all the ingredients to your shopping cart!

Ingredients:

Supplies:

How to Make a 2026 New Year’s Eve Dessert Board

  1. Sprinkle all over the board with some round confetti sprinkles.
  2. Fill the number candy dishes with Rolos, M&M’s, Hershey’s Kisses, and Sour Patch Kids. Arrange them down the center of the board, spelling out “2026” from top to bottom.
  3. Place the fudge stripe cookies in the top right and bottom left corners of the board.
  4. Place the white chocolate sprinkle cookies in the top left and bottom right corners.
  5. Pile the Red Vines along the right edge of the board.
  6. Layer the yogurt covered pretzels along the left edge of the board.
  7. Add the star-shaped fruit gummies in a few clusters above and below the pretzels on the left side of the board.
  8. Fill in the open spaces near the fudge-striped cookies with kettle corn popcorn.
  9. Tuck the Ferrero Rocher chocolates all around the board for a golden, celebratory pop.

Customize the Fun and Yum

Don’t be afraid to adjust based on what’s available and what you have on hand. Swap in different candy or cookies to match your color scheme or dietary needs.

More Sweet New Year’s Eve Inspiration!

Check out my past New Year’s Eve dessert boards to get tons of sweet inspiration. Whether your theme is monochrome or you’re going for bold and colorful, there’s an endless number of ways to style your New Year’s Eve dessert board to meet your tastes!

Or if you’re in the mood for something savory and sophisticated, try a New Year’s Eve Cheese Board that guaranteed to be a hit!

Sweets and treats boards for celebrating New Year's Eve.

If you make my 2026 New Year’s Eve Dessert Board, be sure to snap a picture and share it with me  @thebakermama on Instagram so I can see. If you’re on Facebook, be sure to join my Friends of The BakerMama group to connect and share all the fun and yummy recipes of mine that you make! 😍 I just love seeing how inspired and creative y’all get with the ideas I share. Enjoy!

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New Year's Eve dessert board featuring number containers filled with candy.

2026 New Year’s Eve Dessert Board

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  • Author: The BakerMama
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Total Time: 10 minutes
  • Yield: 8-10

Description

Ring in the new year with this festive, fun and fabulously sweet 2026 New Year’s Eve Dessert Board!


Ingredients

  • Round Confetti Sprinkles, for garnishing the board
  • Rolos
  • M&M’s
  • Hershey’s Kisses Birthday Cake Flavor
  • Sour Patch Kids
  • Fudge Stripe Cookies
  • Mini White Fudge Dipped Sandwich Cookies with Sprinkles
  • Red Vines or Twizzlers
  • Yogurt Covered Pretzels
  • Kettle Corn Popcorn
  • Gummy Stars
  • Ferrero Rocher Chocolate Candies

Supplies:


Instructions

  1. Sprinkle all over the board with some round confetti sprinkles.
  2. Fill the number candy dishes with Rolos, M&M’s, Hershey’s Kisses, and Sour Patch Kids. Arrange them down the center of the board, spelling out “2026” from top to bottom.
  3. Place the fudge stripe cookies in the top right and bottom left corners of the board.
  4. Place the white chocolate sprinkle cookies in the top left and bottom right corners.
  5. Pile the Red Vines along the right edge of the board.
  6. Layer the yogurt covered pretzels along the left edge of the board.
  7. Add the star-shaped fruit gummies in a few clusters above and below the pretzels on the left side of the board.
  8. Fill in the open spaces near the fudge-striped cookies with kettle corn popcorn.
  9. Tuck the Ferrero Rocher chocolates all around the board for a golden, celebratory pop.

Notes

You can also shop my LTK to easily add all the ingredients to your shopping cart!

About The BakerMama

Maegan is the author of her best-selling Beautiful Boards, Spectacular Spreads and Brilliant Bites cookbooks. She started blogging in 2012 and features hundreds of original recipes on The BakerMama. She truly enjoys sharing her easy, family-friendly recipes, creative meal ideas, food board creations, and entertaining spreads to encourage others to get in the kitchen and make something memorable for their loved ones to enjoy together. Learn More

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