Barnyard Party Food
The food you serve at a party depends on the time of day the party is held, when we had our barnyard/farm animal party it was at lunch and we had a barbeque. Beyond the normal bbq items we served piggies in a blanket and other “barnyard” snacks. We ordered farm animal themed plates and napkins.
Piggies in a Blanket
This mini version is perfect for little fingers!
Ingredients:
Lil Smokie Sausages or hot dogs cut into thirds
Crescent Rolls
Cut each crescent roll square into 4 pieces, wrap around sausage, cook according to crescent roll package directions. Serve with dipping sauces such as mustard and ketchup.
Cornbread Muffins
Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter, softened
2/3 cup white sugar
1/4 cup honey
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup cornmeal
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup milk
3/4 (10 ounce) package frozen corn kernels, thawed
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease or line 12 muffin cups.
In a large bowl, cream together butter, sugar, honey, eggs and salt. Mix in flour, cornmeal and baking powder; blend thoroughly. Stir in milk and corn. Pour or spoon batter into prepared muffin cups.
Bake in preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into center of a muffin comes out clean.
Vegetable Platter
You can arrange to make a vegetable garden. Include a sign that says Farmer “child’s name” Garden.
Haystack Snacks
Dry shoestring potatoes found in can. I put these on tables for snacks in little buckets, you could use baskets lines with red and white checkered napkins.
Chicken Feed
Any type of mixed snacks/crereals like Chex Mix or your own creation. For example, pretzels, Cheerios etc.
Decorated Sugar Cookies
Cut in the shape of farm animals, we also wrapped enough for all the guests to take one home as they left the party.
Other ideas:
Baked beans, coleslaw, potato salad, fruit salad, corn on the cob, chili, watermelon slices and deviled-eggs.
DRINKS
We served water bottles, juice and “moo juice” in a galvanized tub.
CAKE IDEAS:
The barnyard theme gives many choices for cakes or cupcakes. Farm animals like pigs, cows and sheep or a big red barn are popular with children.
Our cake was simple, a bakery designed a rectangle cake with a farm scene and we added the Little People animals. We also made a homemade healthy carrot cake for my one year old and any others that wanted a healthy choice. A cute idea would be to make homemade ice cream old fashion style or have the children make their own.
Simple Homemade Ice Cream
Ingredients:
Pint or quart-sized freezer bag
gallon-sized freezer bag
1/2 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 tablespoons sugar (or to taste)
6 tablespoons salt
Put milk, vanilla and sugar into a pint or quart-sized freezer bag. Seal well.
Fill a gallon-sized freezer bag with ice. Add the salt. (We used rock salt.)
Put the smaller bag into the larger bag and seal.
Shake and mix until the ice cream thickens, about 10 minutes.
Yummy and lots of fun!
For great Farm Animal plates, click the ‘Farm Animals’ link below!
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