Our New Year's Eve and New Year's Day dessert was a scratch pumpkin-spice snack cake, topped with vanilla buttercream frosting, bits and globs of white chocolate (leftover from drizzling onto some cookies for Christmas), and edible gold stars. I bought the star cake decors in 2019 for about $5.75.
Every year, I make some sort of New Year's treat, scattering the gold stars over the top. I've made chocolate-tofu whip topped with the stars, homemade chocolate-frosted donuts topped with stars, frosted chocolate cake topped with stars, and this year a spice cake topped with the stars.
It only takes a teaspoon of stars to add sparkle to a family dessert. At this rate, my little vial of stars will last us another 3 to 4 years. That works out to about 72 to 82 cents per year for our special New Year's homemade treat. If $6 for edible accents sounds pricey, consider that as accents, I use them sparingly and get a lot of mileage out of a tiny vial.
