Fandango Catering and Events Offers Dessert Ideas for Your Event

As holidays approach and everyone is into having some type of spring event anyway, today we offer 4 dessert ideas for your event.

There are a couple of schools of thought: 1) A showstopping dessert or two 2) A mini or full-size dessert selection or buffet

A showstopping dessert requires you to either be a skilled baker or buy from an excellent provider or source.  However, be advised that most people nowadays, unless it's a quite intimate, homey family occasion or a business dinner (business men usually don't care if others see them eating a full slice of dessert!), will not want to eat from a showstopping dessert.  Why? They feel it's too pretty to cut into and many are on diets, or even if they're not on diets they are embarassed to eat a whole slice of cake or pie or whatever the full-size showstopping dessert is. 

A mini dessert selection or buffet can be managed by people with some baking skill (not necessarily experts) and the great thing is that now so many gourmet supermarkets also sell these petite sweets and the quality is often very good.  Or, of course, go with a professional baker or caterer.  People love mini dessert selections because they don't feel piggish eating these petite treats as they might if they ate a full-size dessert portion.  Mini dessert selections can also be very attractively displayed at your event and just look more elegant!

Full-size dessert buffets need to be made by someone with more than a bit of baking skill or handled by a professional.  The thing with full-size dessert buffets is that there must be enough room so that the full-size dessert buffet doesn't look at all crowded, and you can achieve the best look by alternating serving pieces, some flat, some with height such as cake stands--and this goes for any dessert display, mini or full-size, by the way.  

One professional baker we know lays a nice tablecloth on a table for her signature mini and full-size mix of desserts and then puddles another cloth of the same fabric on top, then putting her desserts on small glass stands and other unique serving pieces with height.  The unique serving pieces are probably too much for most folks to manage, but you can borrow her idea of a tablecloth and then another one of the same fabric puddled on top of that--and put your desserts on a tray or something on top of that puddled cloth, and it will look wonderful!

But do serve dessert--so many people feel cheated without it, and most folks love more than one dessert at an event.

Warmly,

Kristina

Fandango Catering and Events
(713) 522-0077
www.fandango-catering.com