Celebrate New Year’s Eve with an Accomplishment Cake by adding your past year’s highlights
This long-distance date idea is perfect for couples who want to celebrate New Year’s Eve in a meaningful way, even when miles apart. Your simple dessert becomes a visual timeline of the past year, with each accomplishment serving as a decoration on your cake and representing your growth, achievements, and successes. The cake itself celebrates you, giving you and your partner a chance to recognize both big milestones and small wins that you should feel proud of.
Instructions
How to do this date
- 1Each person buys a small cakeFrom their local bakery or store.
- 2Pick a timeThat works for both of you on Dec 31 ; use a time zone converter if needed.
- 3Hop on a video callUsing Zoom, Google Meet, Discord, FaceTime, Microsoft Teams, or Skype.
- 4Each person writes 5–10 accomplishmentsFrom the past year on small sticky notes; if you don’t have sticky notes, you can use candles.
- 5Some examples may include
- Finishing school
- Learning a new skill or hobby
- Reaching a personal goal, like exercising more or saving money
- Completing a trip or adventure
- Overcoming a challenge or difficult moment
- Getting married, engaged, pregnant, buying a house
- Buying something new
- 6Attach each sticky note to a toothpick
- 7Take turns placing one note/candle into your cake and read the accomplishment out loudIf you are using candles, you can light them as you go or at the end.
- 8Continue until all accomplishments have been sharedOnce finished, enjoy eating your cake together!
Elevate this date!
Make it a night to remember
- Bake your cakes together first, if you like to cook
- Plan the date to last 30 minutes so you can share your accomplishments gradually and time it perfectly to take your first cake bite exactly at midnight.
- Take a photo of your finished cakes. In the New Year, repeat the date and reflect on those photos to see how much you’ve grown.
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