Archive for the ‘Wedding Food’ Category
Posted on December 28th, 2007 by Kori Ellis in Wedding Food
A dramatic addition to your wedding reception is a chocolate fountain. These flowing fountains allow your guests to use a fork, fondue style, and dip fruits and other treats into the chocolate.
Chocolate fountains normally range in size from 24″ to 52″ tall. These fountains can hold as much as 40 pounds of chocolate. You can normally rent the fountain, along with the chocolate, dippers and an attendant for $5-$8 per guest.
You can use milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate or even caramel.
So, what should you dip in the chocolate?
You can choose fruit cut into chunks, such as apples, bananas, cherries, kiwis, melons, oranges, pears, pineapple, raspberries or strawberries. You can also dip graham crackers, marshmallows, potato chips or pretzels.
Another alternative is cutting cakes and other sweets into squares for a real treat. Use angel food cake, brownies, cheesecake, ladyfingers, pound cake or any other type of sweet that you like.
Select anything you’d like for dipping. A wedding that I attended last summer, they used peanut butter balls! It was like unlimited Reese’s all night!
Posted on November 23rd, 2007 by Kori Ellis in Wedding Food, Funny, News
A Rhode Island couple got married at the Honey Dew Donut Shop on Wednesday. “Honey Dew” is a such a fitting name!
Cyndi LaRose and Joseph David Smith decided to exchange wedding vows at the North Kingstown donut shop where they met. The donut baker made the food and a probate judge conducted the ceremony.
But it was the owner Faraq Mohamed and his donut shop that got the couple together. LaRose had been coming to the location for years and noticed Smith when he started coming in to see his niece, who worked behind the counter.
Love blossomed when Mohamed asked them both to help him with an errand a few weeks ago. Two days after that, Smith proposed. The couple was in love and felt no need to wait. They picked out their wedding rings last week and said their “I Do’s” at the Honey Dew on Wednesday.
Good luck to the happy couple!
Source: Associated Press
There’s one thing you can’t (and I mean CAN’T) go without on your big day: your wedding cake. It’s the one thing that is typical of every wedding, and yet, there are so many options out there that it’s hard to know where to begin!
Personally, I just went with the flow when it came to my cake. I had heard of this incredibly smooth icing option called fondant, and I let my mother-in-law design an absolutely gorgeous beach-themed, seashell accented wedding cake for my reception. I have absolutely no regrets because my cake was undeniably beautiful, but I certainly wouldn’t have minded if it had tasted just a little bit better. (As it turns out, fondant is a very, VERY gummy type of icing.)
Well, there are definitely a lot of different ways to approach the big wedding cake decision: tasting, reading, comparing, tasting again, but wouldn’t it be nice if you had a little nudge in the right direction to get you started? I thought so.
Well, just so you have a starting point, I thought I’d provide a very nice chart I found that breaks down your many, many icing options, and their various features like flavor, consistency, coloring, etc. Check out this link to the Wilton website to have a look and learn a little bit about your icing options before you make your (littler) big decision!
(Icing chart available also at: http://www.wilton.com/cake/icing/icingchart.cfm)
Recently I learned more about edible gold and silver products that you can use to decorate you wedding cake and other foods at your wedding reception.
Easy Leaf Products has introduced Oro Fino (edible gold) and Argento Fino (edible silver).
This is the ultimate food decoration. It adds a majestic touch to set your wedding to a royal standard. You can add these products to desserts, cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and even entrees.
For example, you can decorate your wedding cake with gold or silver leaf. You can also cover chocolate truffles by rolling them in sheets of the edible silver or dust fruit, such as strawberries, with their edible gold sprinkles. Another fun way to use the product is rim your cocktail and champagne glasses with the edible gold and silver, as pictured here.
Your wedding guests will be sure to be impressed by use of these sparkling edible embellishments.
Easy Leaf Product’s line of Oro Fino (23-Karat Genuine Edible Gold) and Argento Fino (Pure Edible Silver) are currently available for purchase at easyleafproducts.com and through a variety of retailers across the country.
Check out the pictures and instructions on their website, which demonstrate what you can do with these products. I found a lot of the pictures to be gorgeous, and others not so much.
Leave your comments here and let us know what you think.
You really have a lot of different options when it comes to your reception menu. You can keep it light with deli sandwiches and finger foods. You can serve require your guests to specify ‘beef’ or ‘chicken’ when they RSVP and serve a full on meal. Or…you can serve ice cream!
You might be adverse to the idea at first, but let’s really think about this: what goes better with cake than ice cream? Nothing! What is the most perfect treat on a hot, hot day? Ice cream! And, really, how great would it be to coordinate your ice cream options with your wedding colors or theme? Pretty awesome!
Your wedding colors are black and white? Serve cookies and cream! What if your bridesmaids are wearing pink poofy dresses? Stick with strawberry, or even peppermint! Blue is your favorite color? Give your guests blueberry or bubblegum! (Ok, maybe bubblegum wouldn’t go over well with everyone, but you get the idea.)
So, now that I have you sold on serving ice cream at your wedding reception, I thought it would be rude to not do a little research and find out the best ice cream chains that will cater your big day. Check out the links below for the following locations’ catering information:
If you can’t find an ice cream shoppe near you that offers catering services (unfortunately a lot of places offer catering only through certain franchises) don’t be discouraged! You still have the option of serving this delectable creamy treat if you have a few people willing to help out! Many of the locations listed above offer ‘buy in bulk’ options even if they don’t cater in your area.