Holiday Tasting Party

I had a few of the girls I work with over for a Holiday get together last week.  I decided to go with a tasting party theme.  You know, the little single serving appetizers/desserts that seem to be popular nowadays.  I had less than a week to pull the party together, but I'm very happy with the way things turned out!!  The food was wonderful…and everyone had a great time!!  I can't wait to host a party for a few different people soon!!  I whipped up a fabulous spread including sweet and savory foods and a couple of different drinks.

View of the entire food spread.

Cookie bar with chocolate cut out cookies, peppermint cream cheese frosting, chocolate buttercream frosting, and Christmas sprinkles.

I love the tasting party starter sets I got.  They come with the wood serving board, 6 shot glasses, 6 porcelain spoons, 6 little bowls and little spoons to eat with.

white chocolate peppermint parfaits (DELICIOUS!!!!)

individual taco dips in shot glasses (served with Fritos for dipping)

Christmas peppermint fluff dip (served with mini Nilla Wafers for dipping)

skewers of glory (shrimp and pineapple wrapped in bacon)

These were very popular!!  Can't go wrong with anything wrapped with bacon!!

These were very yummy.  I could have eaten all of them!!

View of the glasses for the cocktails.

Glasses were rimmed with marshmallow sundae sauce and dipped in crushed peppermint candies.

Holiday Sangria.  Absolutely fabulous!!!!  You must make this.

white chocolate peppermint martinis.  Boy were they strong, but good!!

View of all the drinks.

I also made homemade herb pizza and regular pizza, but neglected to take photographs of those.  Oops!!  

I bought all my tasting party serve ware from Pier 1.  I think it's definitely going to be a good investment.  I can't wait to add some more pieces.  I just love how cute the little parfait glasses, shot glasses, and martini glasses are.  I hope you try some of these recipes, because they were all wonderful!!  Enjoy!!

Until next time...