I love looking at pictures of dessert buffets at weddings. I just love the idea of a table full of yummy sweety goodness. I am equally over-the-moon about our table that will be covered with pie, but I also wish there could be a bit more variety. Variety in the look of it, because I would be perfectly happy just eating pie-type desserts for the rest of my life!
But tables like these that have big things, small things, things in bowls, things on sticks, things on plates… I love them, too.
(have I mentioned that I love Martha?)
So far, our dessert table is going to be delicious, but everything is going to be entirely pie-shaped—not too much variety. It’s a bit late, now that I’ve collected all my perfectly mismatched cake stands to go for a minimalist, spare pie set-up, and I don’t think that would jive with the rest of our wedding anyway. Then I found this:
Sugar Pie Bakery, a bakery here in Calgary that makes pie pops! I knew about pie pops before, I just never considered it because I’m making the rest of the pies, and pops just sounded too fiddly for the bride to be making before the wedding. I’m not 100% sold on this idea yet, but I think it could be cute! We could get a big old thick (out of date) dictionary, drill some holes in it, and display them that way.
The next inspiring still-pie-but-different thing I found was this:
Pumpkin pie in a tiny mason jar! The same mason jars our favours are in, actually. I’d been planning on making a pumpkin pie the day before the wedding (can’t freeze it like you can freeze fruit pies!) but how cute would pumpkin pie in little jars be? The tutorial above doesn’t include a crust at all; I thought it might be cute to roll out some pastry and cut it out with heart-shaped cookie cutters or something, and put one the top of each, rather than try to bake it in the jar. For some desserts-in-jars you can buy, check out All Jarred Up on Etsy!
How else can we vary the setup for a pie bar/display?
Those pies in the jars are so cute.
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