Children's birthdays are always associated with a lot of gifts, surprises, games and, of course, a delicious and beautiful festive table.
It is very important for children that holiday dishes are not only tasty, but also beautiful. And if the holiday dish arouses keen interest and curiosity among children, you know that you managed to prepare something that is truly appropriate.
In this article, the news portal “Vtemu.by” has prepared for you some interesting and easy-to-prepare dessert ideas for children, which will definitely be an excellent addition to a birthday pie or cake.
So, let's try to create a children's birthday menu.
Preparation: where to start?
You need to set a goal, organize a stylized Candy bar. This will be helped by following some recommendations.
The children's sweet table should be decorated in one chosen style, which would be harmoniously related to the theme of the celebration. Here are some types of topics:
- Topics corresponding to certain professions (astronauts, scientists, farmers, detectives, etc.).
- Which correspond to the child’s hobbies or abilities (singing, dancing, drawing, etc.).
- Related to his interests (biology, physical education, geography, etc.).
- Corresponding to the selected cartoon. Can be classic or modern.
- Which corresponds to the cultures of the peoples of the world from different eras (ancient knights, Vikings, musketeers, Indians, etc.).
In the end, the theme can be even simpler: stars, hearts, stripes, butterflies, flowers. It is better to use a brightly colored tablecloth. If it is plain, it can be decorated using flags, serpentine, garlands, stickers and appliqués.
You should decide in advance whether the arrangement of tables, dishes, decorations and other components will be symmetrical or asymmetrical. It is important to adhere to this even in small details.
Background
The main purpose of the background is to highlight the candy bar from the general interior. It is better to place the sweet table near the wall so that it does not interfere with the dancing guests. The wall near the bar is decorated with ribbons, tinsel, and balloons.
To make the background for a candy bar effective and attract attention, it is important to respect the boundaries. Its width should not exceed the width of the table. Height – no more than a meter.
Popular background materials:
- paper pompoms;
- themed photo wallpaper;
- a poster for warm wishes from guests to the newlyweds;
- collage of photographs of the bride and groom;
- a piece of fabric in a neutral color or with original prints: polka dots, stripes or chevron;
- garland made of corrugated paper or satin ribbons.
Color spectrum
When preparing a children's sweet table for a birthday or other occasion, you need to choose the right color scheme for the upcoming celebration. There is no point in using many colors. The motley, multi-colored color of the celebration decoration elements will only irritate the eyesight and quickly tire those present.
Taking into account the general color scheme, you need to determine only 2-4 colors for color design. Dishes, other elements, including napkins and the sweets themselves, should be of these colors. For example, to celebrate the anniversary of the birth of a child, a combination of white and pink is suitable if it is a girl. Decoration in white and blue tones is used by those who celebrate their son’s anniversary.
The most favorite children's holiday
Birthday. The most desired children's holiday. Why do children love him so much?
- Because they feel special on their birthday.
- Because their parents are organizing a fun holiday for them.
- Because friends come to visit them.
- Because they receive gifts.
Birthday is a holiday that all children love. So give your baby a fairy tale, extravaganza, magic on this day! This is what he expects from you - Because they blow out the candles on the birthday cake.
- Because they become a whole year older.
- Because on your birthday you can do a lot of things that are not possible in ordinary life.
It’s only a pity, as Crocodile Gena correctly noted, that such a wonderful day happens only once a year. Therefore, it is your sacred duty, as parents, to make sure that before your next birthday, your child remembers the previous one with great delight. And I looked forward to him becoming another year older. And again a fairy tale will come into his life...
Create a festive atmosphere for the little birthday boy and his guests. Decorate the room with balloons, lights, tinsel
In a modern way
In a modern way, the table is decorated using, in addition to small cakes, cookies and pastries, such new items as tarts, candied fruits, nuts, donuts, etc. Newfangled sweet things include decorating various confectionery products with marshmallows. The possibilities here are unlimited. If you use your imagination, you can easily create ornaments, curlicues, figures of cartoon characters, and so on from this sweet material. The color of the marshmallow can be changed by using natural dyes.
As for non-edible decorations, a children's sweet table can be supplemented with flower arrangements, fruit vases and special serving utensils, although there should be less of them than when setting tables for adults. Paper figures and garlands are well suited as table decorations at events for children.
Mini-pizzas “Animals”
Everyone knows that children simply love pizza. This dish is sure to be a hit! The mini-pizza recipe is designed specifically for children.
Ingredients:
- Yeast - 1.5 teaspoons
- Flour - 3 cups
- Salt - 1.5 teaspoons
- Sugar - 2 tables. spoons
- Vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons. spoons
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Tomato juice - 1 glass
- Tomato paste - 1 table. spoon
- Boiled shredded chicken meat
- Grated cheese
- Quail eggs
- Sausage
- Olives
- Tomatoes
Preparation:
We prepare pizza dough in a bread maker. We put yeast, flour, salt, sugar and vegetable oil into it. Turn on the “Dough Kneading” program for 1.5 hours. 3 minutes after the start of kneading, add 150 ml of water.
If you don’t have a bread machine, you can use ready-made yeast dough or replace the dough yourself.
Fry finely chopped onion and garlic. Add tomato juice. Then tomato paste. The sauce should stand on low heat for 10 minutes until thick. Bring the mixture until smooth in a blender.
Divide the finished dough into small balls. Let's roll them out. We make “muzzles” and “ears” from small pieces of dough. Grease the pizza base with sauce.
Place chicken and cheese on pizzas. Place in the oven for 20 minutes.
Now all that remains is to show your imagination: decorate the faces of the “animals” with eggs, sausage, olives, and tomatoes. You can add herbs or any other ingredients.
Dishes
Multilayer desserts can be conveniently and effectively served in beach cups. They are made of harmless fiberglass (do not react with food), are lightweight and do not slip in the hand, and do not give off a specific plastic or other foreign smell. These cups are available in various shapes.
Thanks to the different colors of these dishes, dishes receive additional colors. For example, the green or orange color of the dessert will sparkle brightly in a black glass, and the transparent color will clearly show each part of the multi-layered dessert. You can purchase spoons and plates of the same colors and quality.
Placing items on the table
What is important to remember when decorating a children's sweet table with your own hands? As for the density of placing food, we must not forget that a large and sometimes empty table will look underserved and, therefore, poor. Therefore, it is recommended to distribute food at a fairly close distance from each other. In order for the dishes to be placed compactly on the table, it must not be a large table. It is not necessary to place objects in the same plane. Nowadays multi-tiered sweet table settings are used. To do this, use whatnots, various stands, and boxes covered with decorative paper.
Current furniture
What should a festive table be like, talking about it as an object. First of all, it is convenient for children. Of course, most parents decorate the kitchen table, or “grandmother’s” book-table. But the problem is that they may be too high for young audiences. Ideally, furniture for dining should be appropriate for the height of children: it is both comfortable and safe.
If there are no conditions to install the “correct” furniture, then it needs to be “correctly” decorated: made comfortable, without sharp corners. The same applies to chairs.
Both the table and chairs should be made in the same style: cover the surfaces with a tablecloth and chair covers in the same color. More budget decor options:
- use satin or tulle ribbons;
- decorate with paper garlands.
Original decoration of chairs Source i1.wp.com
What to serve?
Traditionally, the cake was considered the fundamental, and often the only dessert at the holiday. This tradition has not disappeared completely, as there are still many who like to celebrate various anniversaries in the classical style. However, new types of dessert are gradually becoming fashionable.
Now the list of delicacies served is very wide: muffins and cupcakes, cupcakes and profiteroles, cake pops and macaroons. This is not a complete list of popular dessert dishes in our time. If, nevertheless, the choice is made in favor of a cake, then it should be unusual, colorful and, of course, very tasty in order to surprise and delight the children.
In order for the children's sweet table (photos of some ideas are presented in the article) to be sufficiently stocked with sweets and all tastes to be satisfied, you need to create a menu correctly. It must contain desserts of three categories.
The first of them includes one, maximum two main or special types of dessert (cake or cupcakes). In the second category there can be up to 3 types of additional desserts (cupcakes, parfaits, mousses, cookies, profiteroles or mini-cakes - to choose from). The third includes 2-3 types of sweets, which are usually used to fill the table. For example, jellies, marshmallows, marshmallows, candies and more.
Solemn surroundings
Where does a child's birthday begin? Of course, with the decoration of the holiday. And it, in turn, depends on the theme of the celebration. There is no limit to the flight of imagination here.
Start from what your little one likes. Heroes of fairy tales or cartoons, travel, pirate stories, space adventures, robots, princesses, fairies, scientific discoveries, etc.
And more balls, tinsel, lights. Caps for guests, whistles, pipes and drums are required. What would a holiday be without all this? The little birthday boy should be congratulated loudly, colorfully, solemnly. And nothing else!
The menu for a child’s birthday should include simple dishes that are convenient to eat with your hands: sandwiches, tartlets, canapés, for example.
Cupcakes, cake pops and other sweets
Now let's tell you a little more about sweets. Cupcakes are cupcakes that are topped with chocolate, fondant, or whipped cream. This covering should be in the theme of the celebration and match the color of the overall decor. You can use a pastry pencil to apply a design or inscription using condensed milk or jam.
Cake pops are cakes that are very similar in taste to traditional “potatoes”, but with a more complex cooking principle. Marshmallow is essentially marshmallow divided into small airy pieces. Licorice sticks are a healthy treat made from licorice root juice. Macarons are multi-colored, small-sized cakes made from airy dough.
Nutritious meals
If desired or necessary, the menu can include sweet and nutritious dishes, including curd pudding, sweet omelette with strawberries, curd truffle and others. When organizing a children's sweet table for the little ones, it is better to focus on light dishes. After all, children of this age love to frolic and run around in between meals. It will be difficult for the guys to do this with overloaded stomachs.
We must not forget that this is not a simple menu, but a festive one. Therefore, it is imperative to include such unusual things as hot dishes with surprises, fruit skewers and other unusual delicacies. Delicious souvenirs made from plastic spoons filled with chocolate heated in the microwave or in a water bath look quite original. Finally, the product is decorated with marmalade, nuts or small sweets and tied with multi-colored bows.
Accessories
Additional pleasant little things on the children's holiday table will enhance the impression of the entire event. Every little guest will be delighted if there is a small box with a surprise next to his cutlery, which he can then take away for himself.
The labels on cocktail tubes, which are easy to make yourself, look interesting. And if you place toppers with the names of the guests near the plates, then delight is guaranteed.
Toppers are the main accessory on any table, not just for children. Wooden, multi-colored, large and small, inserted into desserts or cakes - they alone, without additional accessories, can decorate the table.
Gravity Falls toppers Source https://b-prazdnik.ru
Children's sweet table for birthday: photo and description
The birth of a child is a special event, and parents want to celebrate significant dates by creating a fairy tale for their child, which will most likely remain in the child’s memory for a long time, remembered only by amazing and pleasant moments. How to create a children's sweet table for your child's birthday?
A one-year-old baby is unlikely to be able to appreciate everything that his parents have prepared, and he will not remember all the moments of the celebration. Therefore, there is no point in paying great attention to table setting. In this case, the main task will be different. The main thing here is in what mood the child will spend this day.
To do this, you can prepare a sparkling holiday at home, in the usual conditions for the baby, in order to avoid stressful situations. Such a sweet table at a children's birthday will only bring joy to the baby. Prepare motley, multi-colored decor in the form of ribbons, bows, balloons and other bright room decorations, unusual decoration of dishes in the form of animal figures or cartoon characters, an original presentation of a birthday cake, a couple of funny competitions for adults, which will undoubtedly amuse even a one-year-old baby.
Wedding cake
Even in the old days, the main decoration of the wedding table were pies with different fillings. Now many people are moving away from this tradition, preferring the European style of celebration . But wedding baked goods can take their rightful place on the sweet table.
The center of a wedding sweet table with pastries can be a loaf. It is believed that this cake conveys good wishes and blessings for a strong marriage relationship to the newlyweds.
The loaf is usually baked large in many layers. And on top it is decorated with braids, ears of wheat, molded from dough. You can complement the loaf on the sweet table with small buns in the form of cones or ducks, roses and cups of honey, jam or preserves.
Kurnik is another traditional wedding pie made from puff pastry or butter dough, which is made in the form of a dome. The filling is usually made from meat, fried mushrooms, rice and eggs, and is separated inside the pie by thin layers of dough.
At the table with pastries you can serve rolls, bagels, dryers and put a real samovar with tea. Pancakes with various sweet fillings from berries, fruits, cottage cheese are also suitable here.
This decoration is best suited for a wedding celebrated in Russian style.
Photo of wedding cake
Some Tips and Cautions
When preparing a sweet table in kindergarten or at home, you need to remember the following:
- You should not use sliced bananas, apples, or tangerines for decoration. These fruits tend to quickly darken or become chapped. Because of this, the attractive appearance of the dish is lost.
- When organizing a holiday for the little ones, berries with seeds are not placed on the table so that none of the kids choke.
- To make it more convenient to take desserts with your hands, they should be small in size, that is, portioned.
- Food and drinks, which due to carelessness can leave a stain on clothing, are best served to children at least 6-7 years old.
- If the celebration will be celebrated outdoors in hot weather, then you need to take care of ice molds for placing the fruit.
- When a celebration is organized for the little ones, the table setting should not only be beautiful, but also safe. It is best to use unbreakable containers, such as plastic or cardboard. Considering that children of this age do not have much perseverance, it would be reasonable to organize the event on the buffet principle.
To ensure that none of those present develop allergies, it is better to use artificial flowers, not real ones, for decorating the table itself, for example, made with your own hands from colored paper.
Beverages
The candy bar is usually supplemented with non-alcoholic and low-alcohol punches, fruit drinks, fresh juices and juices : orange, apple, cherry, pomegranate. An excellent option would be compote made from fresh berries and fruits.
Interesting! To support the wedding style, drinks and sweets are chosen in appropriate colors. You can also change the color of foods using harmless food dyes.
In summer, cold drinks are placed on the table, for example, fresh juices with ice and cocktails made from milk and fruit with syrup, and for a winter wedding, hot chocolate, fruit tea and coffee are suitable.
