Some ideas for children's party food, old fashioned maybe but still enjoyed! The sandwich fillings can be made in advance, as can the sausage rolls, houmous, the jellies, fairy cakes, jam tarts, Smartie biscuits and the birthday cake. Most of the rest is just a case of opening packets! I've included some hot dishes but those depend on whether you've access to an oven in your party venue.
SANDWICHES
As a general rule dark fillings should go in white bread and light fillings in brown bread. Cut the crusts off and cut into fingers or squares and make a chequerboard design alternating brown and white sandwiches.
Fillings on white bread:
Wafer thin ham and cream cheese (Philadelphia)
Tuna fish and mayonnaise
Nutella (or chocolate spread)
Fillings on brown bread:
Chopped chicken and mayonnaise
Egg mayonnaise
Grated cheese and mayonnaise
Peanut Butter
You could add lettuce, sliced cucumber or sliced tomato to any of the savoury fillings.
SAVOURY
Houmous with cheese straws, carrot sticks, cucumber sticks
Cooked cocktail sausages or Sticky Sausage Canapés
Mini pork pies
Hot mini sausage rolls
Hot chicken nuggets
Hot mini pizzas
CRISPS & BISCUITS
Plain salted crisps
Iced party ring biscuits
Iced gem biscuits
Pink wafers
Chocolate fingers
DESSERT
Individual jellies with 100s & 1000s sprinkles
Fresh sliced strawberries
Fruit salad with chopped apple, bananas, chopped tinned peaches and tinned mandarin oranges (in juice from from the mandarin oranges and peaches)
and of course Birthday Cake! (usually sliced up and put in the party bags).
You can make a simple Victoria Sponge Cake and cover with ready roll Fondant Icing before decorating with sweets and candles.
DRINKS
Jugs of water, orange and blackcurrant cordial
ADULTS
If you have adults attending, in my experience adults love nursery food but if you wanted to cater for adults specifically you could prepare some Tapas.
