More theme-based baby shower food ideas to tempt your guests' palate...
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Detective Baby Shower Food Ideas
Think of your favorite detective novel. Now think of the title. Could you associate a particular food to the title? How about your favorite detective character? Does s/he have a favorite dish that you could serve in your baby shower? For example, you could serve something wherein maple is its main ingredient, and call it "Agatha Christie's Miss Maple" (if you're a fan of Agatha Christie, you will know that she wrote many Miss Marple mysteries). Or you could serve something with duck and call it "Martha Grimes' Succulent Duck" or something like that. That should give you an idea on how to build your menu for this particular theme!
Another approach is to ask your friends for their family's secret recipe (or they could cook it for you, if they prefer to keep the recipe secret). Your guests will definitely have a mysterious gathering, not to mention a very tasty one, to look forward to!
Or if you're interested, we know two cookbooks, written with mystery in mind. One's entitled Appetite for Murder: A Mystery Lover's Cookbook by Kathy Borich, while another is written by no other than Carolyn Keene, entitled The Nancy Drew Cookbook: Clues to Good Cooking.
For your cake, you could serve any cake that you were able to associate to any detective stories or character (maple cake?). You could also bake a cake shaped like a question mark, a rubik's cube, and the like. Or to make things simpler, just bake a typical cake and icing some question marks in it. That should also do the trick!
If there's one color usually associated with mystery and detectives, it's the color gray (or grey), and hence, it's what the colour of our punch will be! Grape punch (or halloween punch) is definitely the ultimate detective or mystery punch, and that is why we suggest that you don't settle for anything less, if you want your menu to be as theme-based as possible.
So did we whet your appetite for mystery or what?
Duck Baby Shower Food Ideas
The theme itself implies what your dishes will be mainly composed of - duck. If you like duck as your theme, but not as something you will put in your mouth and chew, then dishes of any bird of your choice will still work perfectly.
Since you could only eat chicken up to certain extent, you could also serve egg dishes to your guests. Devilled eggs, egg soup, and the like, those will complement your ducky theme. Serve your meals using your yellow dinning sets.
A rubber ducky cake shouldn't come as a surprise to you and your guests. You could either have an egg-shaped cake, wherein a baby duck is peering from a crack. Or you could serve a cake shaped like a full grown duck. Either will greatly complement your theme.
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Your punch should also be yellow in color, which shouldn't be difficult, since you could have pineapple or lemon-based punch, just to name a few. Now ain't that really ducky?
Fairy Baby Shower Food Ideas
Dishes related to fairy tales is what we came up with, when thinking of the shower menu for this theme. Apple dishes (Snow White), pea dishes (The Princess and the Pea), seafood dishes (Little Mermaid), pasta (Rapunzel and her angel-like hair), and pumpkin dishes (Cinderella), are just some of the choices. That should give you more than enough options, when choosing your appetizer, main course ,and dessert.
Serving dishes using goldware, silverware and glassware brings back once upon a time dinning moments, which is what you want for your fairy shower.
Your cake should be shaped related to your favorite item in your most-loved fairy tale. If mom-to-be is having a girl, a cake shaped like Cinderella's glass slippers and her carriage are definitely two of the popular options. Otherwise, a cake shaped like a sword, a shield, or a rocking horse are the popular alternatives.
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Apple punch, ginger punch or pumpkin punch, those are just some of your choices when coming up with the right punch for your fairy tale shower. If you don't feel like getting those, then we definitely recommend reviewing your favorite fairy tale, since that is all you need to do to come up with the right fairy tale punch for your fairy shower.
Feet Baby Shower Food Ideas
Anything edible that has feet and legs are great candidates for your shower menu. Dishes which involve chicken, duck, turkey, etc were the first few things that came to mind. However, as long as you have the right amount of the said bird dishes, there's no reason for you not to serve salads or seafood dishes, especially if some of your guests are known to be vegetarians and the like.
Your cake could come shaped like a big footprint. Or you could serve a normal looking cake, and just icing some footprints on it. We bet your guests will love both ideas, feet and all.
For the punch, serve any punch of your taste (preferably something that will come in pink or blue colour). Just don't forget the finishing touches - footprint ice and footprint jelly.
Frog Baby Shower Food Ideas
Your frog shower menu is mainly composed of green dishes. You could start with salads, especially leafy ones. You could also serve pesto appetizers and other pesto-dominated dishes, since it fits your requirement, which is to serve delicious, healthy and green-colored food items.
You could also serve chicken wings (chopped to look like frog legs), so as to give you and your guests that necessary dose of protein.
To add to the frog atmosphere, you could serve your different dishes using Ti leaves or something similar. If your guests are up to it, why don't you let them enjoy those wonderful meals on Ti leaves as well, since that will be quite an experience for them.
Your cake should be chocolate-flavored, since brown (color of mud) is a MUST-have color in any frog shower. You could shape it like a giant leaf, since that is way more attractive than chewing a frog-shaped cake. If you are not enamoured with a chocolate dessert, then serve green tea cakes to your guests.
For the punch, you could either go for a green one (lime) or a brown one (chocolate). Googling green punch or chocolate punch will give you the recipe for the said punch, and either will be perfect as your frog shower beverage.
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