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Your Oscars Party Needs These Snacks

The Oscars are coming! The Oscars are coming! It's the perfect excuse to whip up a snack that's perfect for a crowd.

The best thing about the Oscars? Snacks during the watch party, obviously. If you're on tap to serve or bring an appetizer while paying witness to one of Hollywood's most glamorous nights, check out 22 of our favorite crowd-pleasing snacks.

  • Image may contain Wax Seal Confectionery Food and Sweets
    Alex Lau
    1/22

    Blood Orange Jell-O Shots

    Potent—but so much classier than your dive bar shots.

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  • A platter of breaded fried mozzarella sticks with a sidecar of marinara for dipping.
    Alex Lau
    2/22

    Mozzarella Sticks

    If you’re short on one or more of the dried herbs for the breadcrumbs, just compensate by using more of another. But please, don’t use pre-seasoned fine crumbs; the crunch factor will suffer.

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  • Image may contain Food Waffle Animal Invertebrate Bee Honey Bee and Insect
    Alex Lau
    3/22

    Sweet-and-Spicy Chex Mix

    Don’t scoff at the sour cherries! Their sweet bite and chewy texture are the perfect foil for all the crunch and salt and spice. But if you’re really not into it, sub mini chocolate chips instead.

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  • Image may contain Cutlery Fork Food Dish Meal Plant Vase Pottery and Jar
    Eva Kolenko
    4/22

    Cheese-Stuffed Olives

    This snack serves two purposes: It's salty enough to encourage cocktail drinking but has enough heft to temper the alcohol’s effects.

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  • Image may contain Plant Food Bread Produce Fruit Dish and Meal
    Alex Lau
    5/22

    Herbed Baked Brie

    Big group? Go for the show-stopping giant brie. Smaller party (or can’t find the large size)? Smaller wheels are perfect, and the cook time is the same.

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  • Image may contain Plant Nut Food Vegetable Fruit and Coconut
    Peden + Munk
    6/22

    Charred Onion Petals

    Charred onions offer the best of three worlds: a slightly bitter taste (in a good way), caramelized edges, and crunchy-sweet flesh. If you want to eat them like potato chips, we won't tell.

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  • Image may contain Plant and Food
    Alex Lau
    9/22

    Apple Caramels

    If you don’t have any (or don’t like) hazelnuts, try this autumnal treat with coconut flakes, pecans, walnuts, or peanuts—or simply leave them out.

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  • Image may contain Nuggets Food Fried Chicken and Egg
    William Hereford
    10/22

    Dale Talde's Chicken Nugs

    This is the reinvention of the McNugget, featuring chunks of chicken breast, a marinade of yogurt and hot sauce, a rice flour batter for extra crunch, and three must-have sauces.

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  • Image may contain Food Seasoning Sesame Bread and Bun
    Alex Lau
    15/22

    Miso Doughnuts

    Miso sugar: also excellent on popcorn or in place of brown sugar in barbecue dry-rub recipes.

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  • Bowl of spinach artichoke dip surrounded by crudite and potato chips on a beige surface.
    Photograph by Isa Zapata, Food Styling by Pearl Jones, Prop Styling by Dayna Seman
    16/22

    Spinach Artichoke Dip

    Be sure to squeeze out as much liquid as possible from the spinach. Adding spinach that is too wet could upset the creamy harmony of the rest of the ingredients.

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  • Popcorn with buffalo dressing on white and red plate
    Photograph by Jarren Vink
    17/22

    Buffalo Wing Popcorn

    Why this spicy caramel popcorn didn’t already exist, we have no idea.

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  • Image may contain Animal Food Fried Chicken Bird Dish and Meal
    Alex Lau
    18/22

    BA's Best Buffalo Wings

    Two key steps ensure extra-crisp wings: letting them sit at room temperature evens the cooking time, and the cornstarch dredge transforms into a crunchy shell when fried. If you like your wing sauce super spicy, increase the amount of cayenne.

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