Anyone have any good dessert recipes for Baby Shower?

[Dizzy for Dsny]

I'm having a baby shower for my daughter-in-law expecting twins and I've decided not to do a cake. I would prefer to do 2-3 different desserts. Any good suggestions?

 

[Topper]

Some good ideas here:
http://baking.about.com/od/hintsandtips/a/petitesoiree.htm

 

[Dizzy for Dsny]

Thanks for the link. I'll check it out!

 

[bclydia]

What about a Trifle? It's such a lovely dessert. Pretty to look at and yummy to eat!
If you need, I can come up with a recipe for you.
Also, a Cheesecake would be nice. I'd do the trifle, a chocolate cheesecake and perhaps a lemon loaf or maybe key lime tarts.
Let me know if you need any recipes!
Lydia

 

[impsbandaide]

It might be fun to have desserts in baby colors. Something strawberry for the pink, lemon for the yellow, lemon or pistachio or even mint for the green and possibly blueberry for the blue.

 

[soccerchick]

How about a fruit salad type dessert and a chocolate dessert?

An easy one I make sometimes is to make a batch of brownies, a batch of chocolate pudding, buy a container of cool whip and get 3-4 Skor (toffee) bars. You alternate layering the ingredients - brownie, pudding, cool whip, crushed/broken candy pieces. Looks cool in a clear glass bowl. I've NEVER had any leftover.

You could also make sugar cookies in the shapes of rattles, booties, bottles (what else?) and use the baby colors for sprinkles and/or icing.

 

[Dizzy for Dsny]

What about a Trifle? It's such a lovely dessert. Pretty to look at and yummy to eat!
If you need, I can come up with a recipe for you.
Also, a Cheesecake would be nice. I'd do the trifle, a chocolate cheesecake and perhaps a lemon loaf or maybe key lime tarts.
Let me know if you need any recipes!
Lydia

Bclydia - Oooh! I've never made a trifle - would you mind sharing your recipe? Definately have a bunch of cheesecake recipes (I love cheesecakes)! And your key lime tarts sound delectable! May I have that recipe also?

 

[Dizzy for Dsny]

How about a fruit salad type dessert and a chocolate dessert?

Soccerchick - Thanks for your great ideas and recipe! Yes, definately intend to do a fruit salad too, since I have guests that cannot have sugar.

Impsbandaide - What a great idea to have desserts in baby colors! How creative!

Thanks so much!

 

[*Susan*]

I did this exact thing when I threw a shower for my friend last year. We had all 'finger foods' including the dessert. Everyone really liked it.

First was trifle - and I call what soccerchick wrote about (the brownie thing) a trifle and I put mine in a trifle bowl so the layers look really nice. She is right - NEVER any leftovers - everyone loves it. You could also drizzle the brownies with kaluha (but maybe not for a baby shower).

Next we did the creme puffs from Costco that come in the freezer section. We cut off the top 1/4 of each puff and put a 1/2 a strawberry into the creme. Or, you could serve them sprinkled with powdered sugar with dipping sauces along side (chocolate, caramel, strawberry).

Next were shortbread cookies that I cut out into rubber ducky shapes and piped with yellow royal icing.

Last were mini pecan pies. We used the premade Pillsbury crust, cut it into circles, pressed these into the bottom of normal sized muffin pans and filled them with pecan pie filling (any pecan pie recipe will work). When they were cooled we piped rosettes of whipped cream on top.

Nice thing about this menu is most of it can be made ahead of time and/or is easily assembled.

 

[zulaya]

Berries N Cream Wonton Cups

24 wonton square wrappers
1 T butter, melted
2 T granulated sugar
1 container (8oz) low fat strawberry yogurt
1 1/2 C thawed Cool Whip topping, divided
1 C raspberried
1/2 C blueberries
2 t powdered sugar

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Using a pastry brush, brush one side of each wonton wrapper with melted butter. Sprinkle wontons evenly with sugar. Press each wonton, sugar side up, into a mini muffin pan. Bake 6-8 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. Remove wontons from pan and cool completely.

Place yogurt in a 1 quart bowl. Fold in 1 C Cool Whip. Using a small cookie scoop (if you have one), place one scoop yogurt mixture in each wonton cup. Top each wonton with one raspberry and 2 blueberries. Garnish with more Cool Whip, sprinkle with powdered sugar.

This is great because you have both boy and girl colors and while it isn't chocolate, it is a wonderful alternative treat.

 

[ksjayhawks]

How about soft sugar cookies cut in the shapes of boys or girls? You can decorate if you want or leave plain. We did some for a shower and decorated with blue pants for boy and pink bibs for girl.

Also did cream cheese bacon roll ups (warm), quiche cups (warm), mini muffin pan brownies and fruit.

 

[bclydia]

Trifle
Let's see. I buy a pound cake (frozen Sara Lee is great) and a 16oz container of whipping cream. I use about 3 cups of Bird's Eye Custard (made from a mix) but I've heard that's not easily found in some parts of the states so use a vanilla pudding mix that makes 4 cups instead. The fruit I use depends on the time of the year. My favourite is a mix of raspberries, blueberries and strawberries. If you can only get strawberries right now, just use those.
First, I prepare the fruit. Clean 6 cups fresh fruit and cut into bite size pieces. Add in 1/2 cup of sugar and let sit. The sugar is optional. Cut the pound cake into 1 inch cubes.
Whip up the cream and flavour to your own taste. I usually add in 2 tablespoons of sugar and 1 tablespoon of good vanilla to the 2 cups of cream before I whip it.
Now, in a trifle or other deep bowl, put half the cake cubes and sprinkle with 3 tablespoons of orange juice (or for an adult party, brandy or liqueur) Layer in half of the fruit, half the prepared custard or pudding and half the whipped cream. Repeat the layers. Garnish with a few pretty berries if you like.
It's very adaptable and very easy and SO yummy!
Enjoy!

 

[sandbar]

Here's a really good (very light) trifle recipe that I made last 4th of July. Everyone loved it!

Strawberry Shortcake Punchbowl Dessert

2 angel food cakes (frozen, then cubed)
1 can vanilla pudding
1 16 oz. Cool Whip
1 large box strawberry jello
2 pkgs. frozen strawberries (drained and sliced)
2 c. water

Freeze the angel food cakes then cut into bite-sized cubes.
Make jello with 2 c. boiling water. Add frozen, drained and sliced, strawberries. Refrigerate for several hours until set, then cool. Take a spoon and whip the jello so it is not formed, but soft and easy to spread.
Mix together pudding and Cool Whip.
Layer in clear trifle bowl in this order:
cake
pudding mixture
cake
strawberry jello
Repeat these layers until gone, reserving some pudding mixture for topping.
Top with fresh strawberries.

 

[sandbar]

There were other great suggestions here for cut-out sugar cookies, but I remember seeing one in a Taste of Home magazine (I think!) The cookies were cut in the shape of hands and feet that were frosted blue and pink. They looked so cute in the picture and were used for a baby shower.

 

[bonzarella]

ksjayshawks would you share the cream cheesse bacon roll ups recipe? Sounds yummy- Thanks