Planning a baby shower is lots of fun, especially when it comes to brainstorming food ideas. Whether you’re looking for food ideas that match your chosen baby shower theme or you’re just looking for quick, easy, and flavourful options that everyone will love, you’ve come to the right place. Check out our baby shower food ideas, including savouries, sweets, and thirst-quenching drinks.
Baby Shower Food Ideas
Whether you plan on having only finger foods or an entire menu at the baby shower, here are some ideas for the food:
- Platter. Arrange a variety of cut or sliced raw vegetables such as carrots, bell peppers, celery, broccoli, or whatever you prefer on a large platter. Use hollowed out bell peppers for serving dips, such as sour cream and onion, chipotle, or olive.
- Swedish meatballs. A party favourite, Swedish meatballs are easy to make, and can even be prepared in a slow cooker the day before.
- Egg or spring rolls. Look for readymade spring or egg rolls and bake them the day of the shower. Serve with a sweet and sour dipping sauce that you can either buy or make.
- Spinach Quiche bites. A great idea for a brunch baby shower, quiche is very versatile since you can tailor the ingredients to your taste, such as spinach and ham, leek and bacon, etc. Use your favourite quiche recipe, but instead of baking it in a pie or tart pan, use a mini muffin pan.
- Mini cornbread. Bake your favourite cornbread recipe or favourite boxed mix in mini muffin pans. Serve them just as is, or slice them in half to create little cornbread sandwiches filled with cream cheese.
- Bacon-wrapped dates. These are a catering classic, and easy to prepare: simply wrap dates in bacon, skewer each one with a toothpick, and then broil until the bacon is crispy.
- Puff pastry cheese sticks. With the same type of puff pastry used to create palmiers, you can create cheese sticks. All you do is thinly brush the sheet of puff pastry with an egg white wash, and then sprinkle the sheet of puff pastry with some salt, pepper, and grated cheese like Parmesan or Cheddar.
- Tea sandwiches. A really cute baby shower food idea, especially if you’re doing a teatime-themed shower, tea sandwiches are a great choice because you can easily make so many different kinds.
- Salsa, guacamole, and tortilla chips. Serve bowls of salsa and guacamole with your favorite tortilla chips for a classic party combination. If you’re aiming for something a little different and would like to tie the food into a tropical theme, make a tropical salsa with mango instead of tomato.
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- Cupcakes. Everyone loves cupcakes, and they’re fun to decorate to match your chosen baby shower theme. Use different colours of frosting, and top the cupcakes with marzipan figures, mini flags, cocktail umbrellas, edible glitter, or any another idea you might have.
- Brownies or blondies. Bake a batch of brownies or blondies and cut them into small squares, or use cookie cutters to create fun, themed shapes.
- Cake pops. Easy to make, whether you start by buying a cake or baking one from a mix, all you need to do is mash the cake and mix it with frosting, and then form the balls.
- Monkey bread. Bake your favourite cinnamon-and-sugar monkey bread, and have some cream cheese frosting on the side for dipping.
- Chocolate truffles. An easy, no-bake chocolate truffle recipe is all you need to create this simple, crowd-pleasing dessert.
- Fruit skewers. This idea makes serving and eating fruit fun and easy. Simply string cut or cubed fruits like grapes, orange, kiwi, pineapple, and berries onto a skewer. You might even like to arrange the fruit so that it looks like a rainbow.
Drinks
- Mocktails. It’s easy to come up with a mocktail with just a little bit of imagination. If you’re having a medieval prince or princess theme, you could serve ginger beer with a squeeze of lime and a rim of salty cayenne and call it spicy mead!
- Iced tea. Offer a few different iced teas, including a sugar-free version. Add fresh sliced peaches and berries to your iced black tea to make it look like sangria.
- Seasonal favorites. If the baby shower happens to take place around summertime, why not offer the classic thirst-quencher, lemonade? You could also make limeade, or combine both lemons and limes.
- Flavoured sodas. Instead of your usual brands of flavoured soda, why not offer a homemade soda bar? Gather together different syrups, many that you can make yourself. Think mango, coffee, berry, passion fruit, grapefruit, etc.
- Tropical punch. Go for something old school, and serve a punch made with your favorite lemon-lime soda and some juice or nectar, such as mango or passion fruit.
You’ll no doubt have lots of fun planning and serving the food for the mom-to-be’s baby shower.
If you’ve decided to prepare most of the food, round up some of the mom-to-be’s friends and family to help. Make it easier on yourself by using some store-bought elements, too. You could also make some of what’s on offer but ask each guest to bring a small plate to share.
Have fun with it! Your options are endless, and you might find you really get into it once you get started. And, always remember, no matter what food and drinks you serve, your guests — especially the guest of honour — will really appreciate your efforts and thoughtfulness.
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