It’s strawberry season here in Arkansas, what better way to showcase these seasonal delights than on a bridal shower dessert table. Here are some of my dessert ideas and planning tips that will make your bridal shower bloom!
• Whenever planning a bridal shower it’s important to decide on a theme and then choose a color scheme to go along with it. I decided on strawberries as my theme and used my vintage tablecloth and service ware to guide me in the color scheme. Which were red, pink, and white.
• Plan out the dessert table. I always start by deciding on what my centerpiece will be, usually it is a large cake on a stand. Then build around that with many different desserts at different heights on the table. Here I have a strawberry charlotte as the centerpiece and I have surrounded it with different petit desserts, all keeping with the theme and color scheme.
• Give your guests a special gift at the end of the shower to remember the day by. Here I have baskets of fresh strawberries with scratch made shortcakes and a vanilla bean for the whipped cream.
Capital Hotel Pastry Chef Tandra Watkins infuses every one of her creations with innovative culinary techniques and classic French skills from her days at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris with the foodways of the South. Her desserts feature fresh seasonal ingredients that are a melange of colors, flavors, and textures. Tandra is an active member in Southern Foodways Alliance and her work has been featured in Little Rock Soiree and in Arkansas Bride “Real Weddings”. She’ll share her expert wedding cake advice on the Arkansas Bride blog monthly.
