Any ideas for pink food for girls christening party?!
Any ideas for pink food for girls christening party?
Im organising my daughters christening and she is a huge pink fan.We want the menu to have a pink theme, but are stuck for ideas.We live in cyprus but are returning to uk for the christening , so time for preperation will be limited. The cake is sorted, but theonly other ideas we have are boring pink fairy cake icing and prawns with thousand island dressing!!! Any ideas would be a life saver!!
Answers:
Hi there tricity 100,
Pink marshmallows, add a few drops of red food dye (cochineal) to lemonade, rice. Prawn voluvents, pink mousse, Melt some white choclate in a bowl over boiling water in a saucepan, add a drop of red food dye.....pink choclate. Raspberry angel delight. Slices of ham, chipolatas wrapped in a rasher of bacon, mix a little tomato ketchup with salad cream for a sauce to go on a salad etc.
Hope this helps, and leads to a few more ideas! Hope your daughter has a great time at her christening and party! All the best! :o) x
Strawberry Jello mixed with Cool Whip
Yummmm......... my fav
Sweet-and-Sour Appetizer Meatballs:
Prep: 25 minutes Bake: 15 minutes Oven: 350°F Cook: 10 minutes Makes: 40 meatballs
1 egg, slightly beaten
1?2 cup cooked rice
1?3 cup finely chopped onion (1 small)
1?4 cup fine dry bread crumbs
2 teaspoons brown sugar
2 teaspoons lemon juice
1?4 teaspoon garlic powder
1?4 teaspoon salt
1?4 teaspoon black pepper
1 pound lean ground beef
1 cup ketchup
1 cup grape jelly
1?4 cup raisins
Method
In a large bowl combine egg, cooked rice, onion, bread crumbs, brown sugar, 1 teaspoon of the lemon juice, garlic powder, salt, and pepper. Add ground beef; mix well. Shape into forty 1-inch meatballs. Arrange meatballs in a
15x10x1-inch baking pan. Bake in a 350° oven for 15 to 20 minutes or until done (160°F). Drain off fat. Transfer meatballs to a large serving bowl.
Meanwhile, for sauce, in a medium saucepan combine the remaining 1 teaspoon lemon juice, the ketchup, jelly, and raisins. Bring to boiling; reduce heat. Simmer, uncovered, for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Pour sauce over meatballs; toss gently to coat.
Nutrition Facts per serving: 59 cal., 2 g total fat (1 g sat. fat), 12 mg chol., 109 mg sodium, 9 g carbo., 0 g fibre, 5 g pro. Daily Values: 1% vit. A, 2% vit. C, 1% calcium, 2% iron Exchanges: 1/2 Starch, 1/2 Medium-Fat Meat
those pink wafer biscuits/raspberry jelly/angel delight in strawberry flavour/ice gems - pick all the pink ones out!/strawberry jam sandwiches/skips look pinky coloured...
Party Ring biscuits - they have pink ones in.
Battenburg and Angel Cakes have pink layers in.
For my neice's birthday we made pink pairy cakes and then we decorated them with what looked like flowers made from marshmallows. If you buy a bag of marshmallows (pink and white) and get a pair of scissors and slice off pieces of the marshmallow about 0.5cm thick they will sort of curl up on the edges and look like flower petals.
Make sure you slice from the shortest side of the marshmallow - not long ways.
We put a jelly sweet in the middle of the cake and then surrounded it with the marshmallow petals to look like a flower. It was so cute and effective.
Buy another bag of marshmallows. Melt some chocolate in a pot on the stove, then half dip the marshmallows in the chocolate (just use your fingers to dip them in), lay them on some greaseproof paper and sprinkle with "hundreds and thousands".
Of course there is also red jelly and you could make some jelly moulds??
Have fun!!
Red food colouring is a god send and you will be able to colour most things, try adding it to coleslaw, potato salad, and most of the buffet type foods, at first it will look a bit odd but doesn't change the taste, use lots of ribbon and balloons, table clothes can all be pink as can the napkins, it is possible to get pink plastic cutlery, then with all that hopefully she won't notice the odd coloured things such as lettuce etc: but most of all have fun and enjoy what the day is about. Enjoy!
pink lemonade
rosehip iced tea (with sliced lemons)
fruit salad: strawberries, watermelons, melons, peaches, bananas, plums, edible pink rose petals (dunno if the kids would eat these, though)
do you know those buns with the pink icing (not the boring ones) 'French Fancies'. God they're lovely. And bacon fries for crisps, they'd probably be the closest you'd get to pink. Can't think of anything else
"Pink" food and drink possibilities include:
- Pink Panther shake: In a blender, mix 2 cups milk, raspberry jam and 3 to 4 scoops vanilla ice cream. Pour in a tall glass; garnish with fresh berries.
- Pink cupcakes or cake: Add 2 or 3 drops of food coloring to a white cake recipe or mix.
- Pink frosting: Add a few drops of red food coloring to frosting ingredients until the desired shade of pink is achieved.
- Pink whipped cream: Add a few drops of red food coloring to whipped cream or whipped topping. It's particularly pretty on a goblet filled with fresh strawberries sprinkled with sugar.
- Pink cream puffs: Mix a small amount of raspberry puree or preserves into the whipped cream filling for cream puffs.
- Pretty pink punch: Mix 2 (12-ounce) cans pink lemonade concentrate and 6 cups water in a punch bowl. Add 4 (12-ounce) cans lemon-lime soda. Just before serving, add scoops of strawberry sorbet or raspberry sherbet.
- Pink fruit dip: Use strawberry or cherry yogurt as dip for fresh fruit (strawberries with stems or fruit kabobs).
Amongst the food you could fill a low rounded glass bowl with water and add pink floating candles and pink lillies/flowers to decorate.
strawberry Jelly and pink custard.
Pink iced buns
party ring biscuits { in most supermarkets }
Meringue pink and white
Pink ice-cream and raspberry juice
pink lollies
The frosted animal crackers here have pink frosting. You could serve Strawberry Milk, Nestle makes a powder that is quite good.
Serve salmon, flounder and tuna sushi for the adults! ;o)
Strawberries
Watermelon
Marshmellow
Jelly
Angel Delight
Iced Ring biscuits
Pink Wafer biscuits
Shrimp sweets
Pink Iced doughnuts
Raspberry ripple ice cream
Rasberry ripple screwballs (ice cream dessert from Sainsburys)
Sainsburys Cherry Fizz drink
Angel Cake
Jam Tarts
Salmon - Vol Au Vents?
Fish sticks
Ham - In sandwiches?
Pancetta
Red Pepper Houmous
Mild Salsa Dip
Beetroot Salad
Raspberries
Radishes
Strawberry mousse
Strawberry yogurt
Knickerbloker Glory
Strawberry icecream
Triflle
Strawberry cheesecake
Blancmange
Jam Tarts
I know some of the above are more red than pink but obviously not all your food will be pink.
I am sure any supermarket will have a good choice of pink biscuits and cakes.
Pink Salmon & Cucumer Sandwiches - yum yum
Chicken Tikka pieces - they are a bit pink aren't they?
Prawn cocktail 'skips'
Pink grapefruit drink (for the kids)
Pink champagne (for the grown ups)
Turkish Delight
my family makes a similair recipe to this, very yummy
but we add a can of "mixed fruit" drained
DELICIOUS PINK JELLO SALAD
1 can mandarin oranges
1 can chunk pineapple
2 regular size boxes Mixed Fruit flavor Jello
1 sm. container cottage cheese
1 lg. Cool Whip or 1 envelope Dream Whip
Drain oranges and pineapple, then put on paper towel to take out excess moisture. Put oranges and pineapple in large bowl. Add dry Jello. Stir well with fork, then add cottage cheese and Cool Whip or Dream Whip (prepared as directed). This salad is ready to eat at once or it may be refrigerated overnight. It has a very pretty pink color
To decorate champagne flutes and wine glasses stick them upside down in thick blackcurrant syrup and then stick it in a bowl of sugar you will end up with a fancy pink coating fill with pink champagne.
Crab sticks
tubby custard!!!!
pink chocolate
strawberry yougurt with fresh strawberries on top.
My........................... you have me stumped also! Have a great time anyhow!
Of course, pink jello, pink lemonade, 7-Up with red food colouring, a pink cake (I made a pink elephant shape, easy), add red food colouring to sour cream for a dip, add red food colouring to cream cheese for a spread, etc.
I couldn't add anything, all good ideas here. cool whip now comes in strawberry, it's pink!
pink marshmallows, pink salmon sarnies,
pink blancmonge
In terms of drinks, you can buy pink Cava from Asda for your guests. Also, you can buy a pink grapefruit squash that is pink in colour.
You could also get sort of pink coloured appetisers by using bacon - i.e. pigs in blankets. I also had very good appetisers before- bacon/cheese parcels. Simply chunks of cheese cooked inside a small bits of bacon. This gives you some savoury appetisers as well as sweet. Beetroot is also sort of pink/purply in colour.
For a baby shower, I went to a Party Supply store and bought some baby type molds, rattles, rocking horses, etc. You can buy pink melting chips. All you do is melt the chips and spoon into the molds, let set in the frig. and pop them out. Very easy and you have professional looking candies. They were great and everyone thought I'd bought them.