5 Beautiful Bar Ideas for Your Wedding Desserts
Bars are a great way to add variety to your wedding dessert table. Whether there are tens or hundreds of people attending on your big day, bars are a great way to satisfy everyone’s sweet tooth!
Here are 5 bar ideas for your special day for any time of the year.
1. Gelato Dessert Bar
Fun way to cool down during a summer wedding! Gelato bars are perfect ways for guests to sample many different flavors. Popular ideas may include mint chocolate chip, hazelnut, strawberry, lemon, or vanilla.
An optional addition to this bar would be adding a topping selection on the side. Selections may include strawberries, bananas, nuts, chocolate chips, graham cracker crumbs, melted nutella, and candied lemon peel. Fun toppings to add if children are attending would be gummy bears, sour worms, sprinkles, or marshmallows.
2. Soda and Candy Bar
This bar is sure to impress any sweets lover! This dessert table can be achieved by arranging various candies and sweets on display. Fun ideas to add on may include lollipops, brownie bites, tootsie rolls, mints, sour patch kids, M&Ms, gumballs, jelly beans, salt water taffy and cupcakes. An optional addition to this bar, if plates or dishes aren’t ideal, is cellophane candy bags. Add some soda bottles for the full look at the end of the bar for the guests! (Visit Sweet Tooth Candy and Cafe in Georgetown)
3. Fun Fondue Bar
One of the great things about fondue bars is that they not only add variety, but they can be used for appetizers and desserts! This bar is sure to be a hit year round with hundreds of tasty treats.
Popular fondue bars include:
Strawberries, Marshmallows, Pineapple, Bananas, Cookie Dough, Sugar Wafers, Cinnamon Toast Eggos, Rice Krispie Treats, Cherries, Brownies, Shortbread,
Pear Slices, Mini Cupcakes, Apple Wedges, Orange Segments
Dipping Sauces may include:
Chocolate, Special Dark Fudge (Ingredients include Hershey’s Special Dark Chocolate Chips, vanilla extract and light cream), Nutty Rum (Ingredients include heavy cream, bittersweet chocolate, dark rum, and finely chopped macadamia nuts), White Chocolate (Ingredients include heavy cream, unsalted butter and premier white morsels), and Caramel (Ingredients include sugar, corn syrup, water, heavy cream, unsalted butter, and pure vanilla extract).
4. Popcorn Bar
Having a popcorn bar is a very fun way to add flavor and creativity! This is easily set up by arranging multiple flavors of popcorn in different jars or glasses around the table. Place labels on each jar with the flavor and insert a serving spoon. Popcorn flavors can include the simpler flavors such as cheddar cheese, caramel, or chocolate drizzle. Popcorn bags or plastic popcorn boxes work wonderfully for serving!
If you’re wanting to try more fun flavors there are hundreds to try ranging anywhere from confetti, blueberry muffin, pizza, sour melon, strawberry cheesecake, to even boiled crawfish!
5. Cupcake Bar
This is a great option for a wedding because cupcakes are, most often than not, a hit! There are so many different arrangements to display out on cake plates or tiered cupcake stands that look beautiful and taste delicious. To add more decoration lay out a tablecloth, and hang small banners and labels of flavors to the displays to tie the look together.
Cupcakes are desserts that can also be easily done by hand or ordered in large quantities for a larger size wedding. Popular flavors include: chocolate, vanilla, red velvet, carrot cake, wedding cake, pumpkin, coffee, lemon, oreo, and peanut butter!
(Try out Cake Slice in Georgetown)