For baby showers, Truffleberry Market in Chicago presents desserts in small vessels that resemble baby food containers. The snacks are served with spoons that read: “Cute as a button.”
Photo: Courtesy of Truffleberry Market
A Perfect Event has also worked on wedding receptions featuring high-end sweets as an alternative to cupcakes or a wedding cake. One example: ending a meal with the delicate French pastry croquembouche.
Photo: Courtesy of Debi Lilly
The Knot Gala also featured a fresh method for engaging guests during the cocktail hour. At one food station, globes filled with tuna ceviche hung from trees, and guests were encouraged to “forage” for the items with help from staffers.
Photo: Courtesy of the Knot
'Washington Business Journal's "Best Real Estate Deals"
Washington Business Journal hosted the lunch at Dock 5 Union Market in Washington on April 30. Ridgewells handled catering, and presented inventive menu items including a chilled cucumber soup that guests poured from milk bottles into chilled bowls that held edible flowers.
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Modern Ice Cream Sandwiches
Looking for summer catering ideas? Colorful mini ice cream sandwiches in flavors such as pistachio coconut pineapple and carrot butter pecan caramel, served in matching foil, are by Abigail Kirsch Catering in New York.
Photo: Andre Maier
