Sweet Pea Baby Shower Recipes and Sentiments Cake
by Leigh Anne on May 6, 2010
in Baby Shower, Party Food, Recipes
Earlier this week I introduced you to Party Guest Lisa and her darling Sweet Pea Baby Shower. Lisa has graciously shared some of her recipes too.
One of the things Lisa does at a party, an idea I have totally fallen in love with, is a Sentiments Cake.
When I asked Lisa what a Sentiments Cake was this is how she explained it to me:
A sentiment cake is a cake I make for sentimental purposes. It is where
I make cupcakes to be enjoyed by the friends who come to the party and
the sentiment cake is boxed up to be enjoyed by the family members not
invited to the party… Maybe a hubby or younger siblings. They LOVE
it! That way not too much cake is consumed or wasted! But it helps to
carry the theme. What is a party without the cake.”
Isn’t that just the best idea – I so love it!
The menu for the baby shower included:
Pea Pod Baby Shower Menu
Lime Punch
Cheese and Assorted Gourmet Crackers
Sweet Snap Peas
Croissants
Pitas
Curry Chicken Salad
Almond Chicken Salad
Vanilla Cupcakes with Whipped Buttercream
Coffe and Tea
Thanks to Lisa for sharing some of the recipes with us!!
“Sweet Pea” Pecan Tassies
3 eggs
1 cup dark corn syrup
2/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup unsalted butter, melted
¼ tsp. sea salt
1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
1 ¼ cups pecan halves
1 15 oz. package refrigerated piecrust dough or homemade
Place Demarle Boat Tray on Perforated Baking Sheet.
Roll dough out on Roulpat. Use boat dough cutter to cut out little “pods”. Line tray with pastry. Use shaper to press dough into tray. In a mixing bowl beat eggs. Add corn syrup, sugar, butter, vanilla and pecans. Mix well.
Pour filling into prepared “pods”.
Bake @ 350 for 30 minutes or until golden.
Lime Punch
1 carton Lime Sherbet
4 litres 7 UP
Add ingredients to One
Glass Crock – availabe at Target and Costco
Lisa’s Almond Chicken Salad
6 boiled chicken breasts, chopped
1 tsp. garlic salt
1 ¼ cups Best Foods Mayonnaise
1 cup toasted almonds, chopped
1 cup Monterey Jack Cheese
Mix all ingredients together, except for almonds.
May be refrigerated overnight.
Add almonds before serving.
May add more mayo if needed.
Lisa’s Curry Chicken Salad
6 cups chicken, chopped
2 8oz. cans water chestnuts, chopped
1 ¼ cups Best Foods Mayonnaise
1 tsp. salt
2 tsp. curry
Mix all ingredients together except water chestnuts.
May be refrigerated overnight.
Add water chestnuts before serving.
Note: If I am boiling chicken breasts, I figure on one chicken breast per cup.
May add a bit more mayo before serving if needed.
Enjoy!
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Hi -The Pecan Tassies recipe sounds so good! I just don’t understand the directions and what some of these things are…..can you help???? I feel so stupid! lol
Place Demarle Boat Tray on Perforated Baking Sheet.
Roll dough out on Roulpat. Use boat dough cutter to cut out little “pods”. Line tray with pastry. Use shaper to press dough into tray. In a mixing bowl beat eggs. Add corn syrup, sugar, butter, vanilla and pecans. Mix well.
Pour filling into prepared “pods”.
Lori-It is confusing. Sorry. I used DEMARLE products. You may look it up online. They are all flexible bakeware that are made in a variety of shapes and sizes. They are all non-stick. The Roulpat is a mat that I roll dough out on and it doesn’t stick. You can just roll the dough out however you want. The Boat Tray is a tray of individual “boat shapes”. I thought they looked like a pod, so that is how I referred to it. Once the pastry is cut using a boat-shaped dough cutter, I used the boat-shaped dough shaper to press the dough into each individual “boat”. Since the bakeware is flexible, I put the tray on a perforated baking sheet so that it bakes evenly and is stable. Like I said, it is a BOAT TRAY, but I used it as a POD tTRAY to make individual pea pods. Hope that is a bit more specific. If you look online, you will see the pictures and understand it a bit more clearly.
Hey sweet girl ~ I have another question for you — on one of these cool blogs I was able to click into an advertisers site that was really awesome Christian based jewelry — It is driving me crazy that I can’t find it…I need a very special gift for a person that is very dear to me and would love to purchase something. The jewelry had some stamped metal, pearls, etc. Are you by any chance familiar? The name of the website is on the tip of my tongue……..
Thanks so much….Lori