The Best New Year’s Eve Party Foods to Buy at Costco

Portable, poppable, and pleasurable—that’s the name of the game when it comes to the best New Year’s Eve party foods, especially if you’re shopping at Costco. If you thought Trader Joe’s was the spot to get your finger foods, then you just haven’t been paying attention to Costco. These are the NYE foods that you need to get from Costco to ring in the new year with a happy stomach.

Maitre Pierre Goat Cheese Honey Tart

A goat cheese honey tart sounds like it was made for a New Year’s Eve party. Cut this into squares (against Brennan Lee Mulligan’s wishes) so your partygoers can pick at it for a yummy, filling dish to dig into throughout the night. This Costco-sized box comes with three decently large tarts so you can either use them up in one night or save one or two for your post-NYE hangover.

Cuisine Adventures Puff Pastry Bites

The pop of fireworks won’t be the only popping you’ll experience you’ll have for New Year’s Eve. We’re loading up on all the poppable foods Costco has to offer! This four-flavor pack of savory mini pastry bites—a Sporked fave—comes with Roasted Red Pepper & Cheddar, Spinach & Parmesan, Artichoke, Monterey Jack & Jalapeno, and Caramelized Onion & Ricotta, so hopefully there’s enough variety to give everyone something to pop in their pie hole.

Tipiak French Sourdough Pull Apart Cheese Bread

Above all else, you need this pull-apart cheese bread. Okay, well if I’m invited to the party that is. Nothing sounds better than a warm loaf of sourdough bread that’s already pre-cut to deliver a cheese pull with each bite. I’ve been eyeing this one in the Costco deli section and its time to shine has finally come. This will be the showstopper of any NYE snack table you put it on.

Loacker Tortina Minis

We need a dessert. One that’s light but still sweet sounds like the ideal pick for a NYE party. You don’t want something that’ll fill you up so much that your eyelids start drooping before it’s even 10 p.m. These crispy wafers are filled with hazelnut cream, covered in milk chocolate, and come in their own little packages. That means you won’t have to worry about cutting a cake or dishing out ice cream while you’re in a frenzy as it gets close to ball-drop time.

Barton’s Holiday Mingle Mix

This is called a “holiday mingle mix,” but they didn’t specify which holiday! So I’m taking advantage of it for our New Year’s Eve party because that’s still a holiday last time I checked. And a good NYE party needs a snack mix on hand. There’s plenty to choose from at Costco, but this one’s got a little something for everyone with a sweet tooth: Dark Chocolate Pretzels with White Drizzle, Milk & Dark Chocolate Caramel Corn, Milk & Dark Chocolate Mini Peanut Butter Cups, Milk Chocolate Pretzel Balls, Milk Chocolatey Nonpareils, and White Coated Cookies with Sprinkles. My guilty pleasure is (carefully) picking through a snack mix at a party to get my faves, so I’m a big fan of this plan.

Kirkland Signature Brut Champagne

We could include this in our Costco haul for tradition alone. Kirkland Signature’s brut champagne has so much more to offer than tradition, though. We’re big fans of the stuff. As Sporked’s Justine Sterling put it in our ranking of the best cheap Champagnes, “It’s creamy. It’s effervescent.” Every host’s dream is that their guests have a creamy, effervescent experience at their party.

Chateau Fourgeres French Petits Fours

Loosely translated, “French petits fours” means “hit the nail on the freaking head” for our New Year’s Eve party spread. You may be picturing little square cakes, but these are actually savory snacks. This variety pack of frozen pastry bites includes cheese quiches, garlic bread bites, Emmental cheese puffs, and brie cheese puff pastries. An ideal assortment to ensure everyone can find a bite they truly love before the clock strikes midnight.

Read our ranking of the best frozen mini appetizers

Vacaville Fruit Company Dried Fruit & Nut Wooden Gift Tray

When you’re throwing a party that has to keep people fed until midnight (at least), an appetizer for appetizers is in order. This fruit-and-nut tray from Costco comes ready to roll with dried peaches and apricots arranged into a flower. Frankly, it’s beautiful. Just take off the cover and pretend you’re a whiz at food styling!

Kirkland Signature Cooked Shrimp & Cocktail Sauce

You better believe our Costco New Year’s Eve haul includes a shrimp cocktail platter. This tray includes two and a half pounds of boiled, chilled shrimp arranged in two lovely concentric circles. Grab a couple—if your guests don’t go at it like George Costanza, you can have shrimp cocktail for breakfast on January 1. That’s how you start 2025 right!

Read our ranking of the best grocery store shrimp cocktail

Phillips Crab Cake Minis

Sure, everyone hosting a party wants to make everything by hand, but that’s nuts. Instead of laboring over grandma’s famous crab cake recipe and realizing you’re out of Old Bay, just grab this sizable box of crab cakes from Costco, heat, and serve. And hey, if you’re feeling a little cheffy, you can make the spicy aioli dipping sauce they include a recipe for on the back of the box.

Read our ranking of the best crab cakes

Cuisine Adventures Green Chile Chicken Firecrackers

Firecrackers as a New Year’s Eve app? That’s destiny if I’ve ever seen it. These little roll-ups are stuffed with chicken, green chile pepper monterey jack, and mozzarella cheese, all in a crispy and grabbable wrapper. If I was a conspiracy theorist I’d say these were made especially for New Year’s Eve.

Read our ranking of the best frozen mini appetizers

Kirkland Signature Brut Champagne

When you’re shopping for booze at Costco, look for Kirkland-branded bottles. Why? Not to sound like an ad, but high quality at a good price. Take this Brut Champagne—yes, actual Champagne (not sparkling wine) for less than 30 bucks a bottle. And it’s good! Sporked editor-in-chief Justine Sterling praised its toasty, lemony quality and wonderful effervescence. A real champagne toast at midnight? As the French would surely say, ooh la la.

Read our ranking of the best cheap champagne at the grocery store

Martinelli’s Sparkling Apple Cider

Everyone at the New Year’s Eve party deserves to raise a glass of something bubbly at midnight, whether or not they drink. Get a few bottles of sparkling apple cider to keep on hand so your pregnant, sober, or underage partygoers can join in the fun. Martinelli’s is the best sparkling cider you can buy. It’s perfectly effervescent, with small bubbles that burst in your mouth and a nice foamy head. Yes, it’s carbonated apple juice, but it’s fancy enough for even the swankiest New Year’s Eve party.