Baby Shower Menu Ideas

Should your Baby Shower include a three course meal or simply appetizers and dessert? This article will provide you with some baby shower menu ideas.
Baby Shower Food Items

Baby shower food items are one of the most important features of the baby shower. When guests arrive at a
baby shower they are expecting food that includes desserts, appetizers, and baby shower finger food. You
don’t really have to plan an entire meal, it isn't really expected at this kind of event.

When you are planning a shower you will want to have a wide selection of baby shower party foods on hand.
This is going to
keep your guests around long enough to enjoy the games and gift opening.

You can be as elaborate as possible or keep things simple and manageable for yourself. If you are planning
a meal you’ll want to start with some baby shower appetizers. Then you can move onto the main meal,
followed by a selection of desserts. If you want to keep the food a bit more simple you can plan to serve a
variety of appetizers, baby shower finger foods and desserts.

If the baby shower food menu is going to be a selection of foods that are eaten by your guests throughout the
party, you may want to prepare a side table to reflect the baby shower theme.  Decorate the table so that the
baby shower desserts are featured in the center surrounded by the other food choices spread out to the side.

You may want to prepare only baby shower finger food so that there is no need for the guests to juggle
cutlery and plates while visiting with each other.

Baby shower food items are often prepared as part of the theme. If the baby is a girl you can prepare
desserts that reflect this by using pink as a primary decorating color. This means
decorating cakes and
cookies with a pink icing, then adding decorative touches that continue in a pink theme.

If the baby is a boy you can concentrate on blue and green colors when preparing the baby
shower food.
There are available
recipes for cakes, cookies, appetizers, and much more. You could check out your local library, book store
and online to check out recipes and recipe books on baby
shower food ideas.

The
baby shower appetizers can be made in replacement of a full meal that you might otherwise serve. Baby
shower appetizers can be as complicated as baked spring rolls or as simple as rolled sandwiches cut into
bite size pieces.

Try to serve as much of a selection as possible, so that there is something for all of the guests. If there are
any guests that
have food restrictions, try to have some of the food take these restrictions into account.

Preparing baby shower finger food needs to be as mess-free as possible. If the guests are wandering
around and visiting they won’t want to be juggling plates, cutlery, and drink glasses. This is where finger
food comes in handy as the perfect baby shower party food. Prepare finger food that is easy for guests to
pop into their mouths without getting their fingers too
dirty. Finger food can include vegetables and dips, mini sandwiches, sausage rolls, and crackers and
cheese.

The desserts that are served can be as sinful as possible or they can be on the healthy side. You’ll want to
serve a variety
of desserts that center around the party theme.

There should, of course, be a baby cake that is the centerpiece of the dessert table. Other smaller desserts
can be displayed around the baby cake in a continuing theme. Some desserts that you may want to consider
include iced cookies, squares, petit fours, and bowls of seasonal fruit. No matter what type of food that you
decide to serve. Try to make sure that there is something for everyone and that there will be enough food to
last for the duration of the party. You don’t want to run out of food before the gifts have been opened and the
games have been played.

You might want to look up
baby shower recipes to help with the baby shower food ideas. There are recipes
for cakes, cookies, appetizers, and much more.

© Copyright Randy Wilson, All Rights Reserved.

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Randy has dozens more baby shower related articles such as
Baby Diaper Cakes, Party Games for Baby
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