You are most likely going to host a party this holiday season, or go to one. Vegan Mom and I have hosted/helped host two parties thus far. The first was a neighbourhood affair with about 50 people in attendance so I thought I'd share what we did to help you with your own partying over the next week or so. Many apologies for the quality of the pictures; they were snapped rather quickly right before guests came through the door.
We tried to do a mix of savoury and sweet. On the savoury side we had a corn and bean salsa with chips, as described
here. You can also see a fruit tray, some mixed nuts, veggies and hummus, and
pretzel bites for the kiddies.
The biggest hit by far on the savoury side was a large crockpot of
Creamy Zucchini Soup (not pictured here) with
baguette slices and
focaccia for dunking.
And now the sweet: If you look at the top picture again you will see
mini chocolate cupcakes with mocha frosting (all from
Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World). People love those things! Vegan Mom went to town with the cookies. Here we see
Sugar Cookies and
Gingerbread Men.
Also: lemon tarts (Isa's lemon square filling from
Veganomicon) and
mincemeat tarts (if you are not making your own mincemeat, make sure the stuff you buy does not have suet (i.e. beef or mutton fat) in it).
Chai Shortbread from
Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar.
And, of course,
stollen.
