Baby Shower Hosting Tips and Advice

If you are reading this, chances are you are looking for baby shower menu ideas. Probably the most important thing to keep in mind is the fact that there are no rules you have to follow.

Planning the menu for a baby shower is much like planning the menu for any other social event. It is a good idea to make your final choices dependent on the total number of guests who will be in attendance and whether or not the meal portion of the shower will be casual or a bit more formal.

If you decide to host a casual shower, which is by far the most traditional choice, consider a menu consisting of miniature sized foods. It’s a fun way to celebrate the upcoming birth of the newest miniature sized person, in your life.

There are many yummy recipes that can be scaled down, to miniature size, without a great degree of effort. Making a choice to serve smaller versions of popular baby shower munchies, allows you the opportunity to serve a wider variety of dishes than you would, otherwise.

Mini hamburgers are always a people pleaser. You can jazz up plain burger by mixing up your favorite meatloaf recipe and shaping them into small patties. They can actually be frozen until the day of the event. Mini hamburgers can be baked or fried and can be served on dinner rolls, which has been cut in half.

Pizzas are another great, scaled-down, baby shower menu idea. Pizza crust is really quite simple and inexpensive to make. You can bake several small pizzas, at once, on one large cookie sheet. Again, to save time on the day of the event, these can be pre-assembled and frozen until ready to bake.

For dessert, you might choose to make little cheesecakes, ice cream sandwiches, pie pockets or cupcakes. Mini cheesecakes and cupcakes can be made in miniature cupcake pan. Tiny ice cream sandwiches are very easy to make, by simply placing a small amount of ice cream between two small, wafer style, cookies. Freeze until firm.

Pie pockets or fried pies take a little longer to make but are more than worth the extra effort. Cut pie crust dough into 5 inch rounds. Place a heaping tablespoon of pie filling in the center of each round. Fold though in half, crimp edges with a fork and fry until light brown, in hot oil. Pies can be baked, as well. Sprinkle with powdered sugar, when pies have cooled.

These are just a few examples of yummy baby shower food ideas. Use them as a starting point to come up with your own, unique, menu.