Food! What would a baby shower be without food? Or any party for that matter. At the center of all of that goodness is a baby shower cake. Here, you will find some great recipes and ideas for feeding a crowd as well as some of the cutest cake ideas.

Baby Shower Cakes

No, not diaper cakes silly! The kind you eat. I ran across this coolest cakes site just a few days ago. While it has all sorts of birthday cake pictures from readers like you, it has baby shower cakes as well. What a great resource to get some ideas.

Make it Yourself Cake Ideas

Wilton is the pinnacle of cake baking and decoration. The have a page slammed full of baby shower cake, cupcake and cookie ideas from ducks to buggies to bears and so much more. Check it out for some great ideas.

Sheet Cakes

A very simple sheet cake can be dressed up with frosting to make it look like baby blocks, add hard sugar decorations or non toxic plastic decorations. This is a quick and simple solution to your cake dilemma.

Rattle Cake

The rattle cake is probably one of the easiest cakes to make and decorate. You would bake 2 round cakes and place them on a board or baking sheet that they will fit on leaving a small space in between. Place a paper towel roll cut in half or another safe cylindrical item in between. Frost over everything and decorate. Don't eat the paper towel roll though!

Finger Sandwiches

Finger sandwiches are great for baby showers. You can make them as simple as you want or dress them up for an extravagant display. You can use any type of bread. Make it a pretty platter by mixing different colors and textures of bread like pumpernickel and whole grain bread. Here are some filling ideas. Don't forget the pb&j if you are allowing children to come!

Cream Cheese and Asparagus

Egg Salad

Tuna Salad

Pimento

Goat Cheese & Sun Dried Tomato

Chicken Apple Salad

Mix various lunch meats with different cheeses

Pepperoni & Mozzarella

Cream Cheese & Raspberry Preserves

Cucumber, Dill & Mayo

Here is an awesome resource to gather more ideas for finger sandwiches.

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Fun Baby Shower Food

 
Ole' Pickle Favorite
1 Jar of large, whole pickles
1 package lunch meat ham
8 oz. cream cheese
 
Take 1 slice of lunch meat. Spread cream cheese all over 1 side of the ham. Take a whole pickle and roll the lunch meat around it's girth. Slice crosswise in 1/2 inch sections. Pregnant moms LOVE this appetizer!

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Elegant Baby Shower Food

 
Classic Baby Shower Quiche
4 eggs
1 can mushrooms
1/2 cup green onions (chopped)
1 T. Lemon juice
1 tsp. Garlic salt
1 1/2 cups grated Swiss cheese
1/2 c. evaporated milk
1 pre-made pie crust
3 T. Parmesan cheese
 
Combine the ingredients accept the Parmesan cheese and pour into the pie crust. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. Bake in pre-heated 350 degree oven for 40 minutes.

 

Asparagus Roll up
2 T. chopped green onions
12 slices bread without crusts
24 fresh asparagus spears
8 oz. softened cream cheese
10 bacon strips (cooked until crispy and crumbled)
1/4 cup butter (melted)
2 T. Parmesan cheese

Flatten slices of bread. Mix onions, bacon, and cream cheese together in a bowl. Spread the cream cheese mixture over the bread. Next, cut the asparagus to the size of the bread. 2 spears go on each slice. Simply roll the asparagus up in the slice of bread and place face down on a greased baking sheet. Brush the tops of the bread with butter and dust with Parmesan cheese. Bake in a 400 degree oven for 12 minutes.

 

Cheesy Carrot Casserole
12 large carrots sliced and cooked
1 T. flour
1/4 cup margarine
1 cup milk
1/4 tsp. celery salt
1/4 tsp. mustard
1/4 lb. Velveeta cheese (shredded)
1 small diced onion
salt and pepper to taste
 
Melt the margarine in a medium sauce pain. Saute onions for 2 or 3 minutes. Stir in the flour next and mix with mustard, pepper, salt, and celery salt. Add milk to the pan and stir until thick. In a casserole dish layer the carrots and cheese ending with the carrots. Pour the sauce over the top and bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes.
 
Chocolate Apricot Dunkers
Dried apricots
Chocolate almond bark
3 oz. cream cheese
2 T. Apricot Jam
 
Soften cream cheese and mix with the jam. Spread the mixture between dried apricots and dip in melted chocolate almond bark. The almond bark should cover half of the apricot.

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Crowd Pleasing Recipes

"A Little of This" to feed a whole lot of them.
Barb's Famous "Or-So" Crock-pot Meatballs

Use enough frozen mini meatballs to fill your medium to large size crock-pot 3/4 full. Dump them into the crock-pot. Add 1 can Pineapple chunks(juice included), 1 medium jar maraschino cherries (juice included), 1/4 cup "or-so" Worcestershire sauce, ketchup & mustard. Then add about a cup "or-so" of brown sugar. Fill the rest of the crock-pot with water and let it simmer for about 4 hours "or-so".

Chicken the Good Way
Family size package of chicken on bone or use wings or drumsticks
Onion soup mix
Apricot preserves
Catalina Dressing (can use Fat free)

Take chicken on the bone, clean & remove skin. Mix the packet of onion soup mix, 3/4 jar of apricot preserves & 1 small bottle Catalina dressing in bottom of pan. Coat chicken in the mixture & put in oven for 1 hour 15 minutes on 350 degrees. Coat the chicken with mixture every 15 minutes. Mixture will make a nice dressing on chicken. It will turn to a nice glaze on chicken once it is almost done (should bubble & brown a little).

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