If you need inspiration for a winter wonderland themed party then check out this balanced mix of fun food ideas from my daughter's party recently.
I labelled the individual dishes as our party girls are at the school age where they love learning to read and these gave them some giggles. We have stylish tags available online at Kiwicakes too.
Slices like this can be made up to a week in advance, covered in coconut 'snow' and stored in the fridge until party day.
I love the crunch and vibrancy these bought to the table.
Yum yum hot from the oven. The 5 & 6 year old party girls thought this sign was hilarious! In the background you can spot the easiest table decoration ever - a tall glass vase filled with sparkly blue and silver christmas baubles.
These lemonade tasting 'clouds' were soft and billowy. Thank goodness for nanas who bake and help with food prep.
I was careful to avoid peanuts in the party food so these are almonds.
I normally endorse buying New Zealand made but in winter I feel lucky that Australia exports these summery fruit here and surprisingly at a really reasonable price. We bought 3 punnets and this was the first dish to run out!
We served creaming soda drinks (similar to lemonade) in these cool clear retro bottles. Check out the range of various designs we have in stock. Alternatively you could fill them with water, blue fanta or milk and all would still pass as 'melted snow'.
These cookies can be made a day ahead and are a fun project for kids to assist with. You will need shortbread cookies, white marshmallows, white chocolate, licorice, dried apricots and blue sugar pearls on your shopping list. The more inconsistent and 'melted' they look the better!
I think this jelly shortcake slice beats jelly cups which never seem to get finished. And leftovers make great lunchbox surprises for days to come. This was made with 50:50 blueberry and lemonade packet jelly mixes to get the mid-aqua colour.
Plump raisins were offered as 'snowman eyes' but you could even use chocolate drops or other confectionery.
A party is not a party in my house until there are cocktail sausages. Enough said.
These store-bought pretzel sticks made nice woody-looking 'arms'. Eskimo lollies are another easy supermarket item to pick up that is in keeping with the theme.
Lastly we sent the kids home with a signature handcrafted cookie. Its easy to do.
This snowflake cookie is topped with fondant which is gently ice coloured, textured with a stoney look from the manly impression mat set, shaped with the same cookie cutter, stuck on with sugar glue, finished with a dash of glacier glitter and presented in a favour bag.
Big smiles all around!
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