#wedding desserts

These sweet and tasty little circles of happiness are sure to put a permanent smile on everyone’s faces!

The Donut Wedding Cake - Stacks of Sweet Goodness

Move over cupcake and macaron towers it’s now time for wedding donuts to shine! In addition to your wedding cake, in lieu of a cake or even placed on the cake, donuts are a fun and modern, not to mention tasty trend for the big day. Add them to a plain cake or stack em’ up high for a real wow factor.

Impress your Guests with a Donut Dessert Bar

Not a huge fan of cake? No worries! Dessert tables are all the rage right now so why now step it up a gear and fill them full of doughnuts, the sweet treat. Mix and match flavors, shapes and sizes or let your guests get creative with their toppings such as delicious glazes, fun sprinkles or simple sugar.

A Sweet Thank You - Donut Wedding Favors

Thank your lovely guests for coming with delicious donuts packaged up all pretty. Pop em’ up in cute bags and add a tag to say thanks (you can find lots of great free downloadable tags online). The perfect sugary treat for the morning after!

Donuts with Coffee and Milk - A Late Night Treat

Mini donuts and little donut balls are the perfect mini snack for your guests after a long night of dancing. Serve with milk for the kiddies (and young at heart!) or serve with a nice cup of tea, coffee or hot chocolate for the adults as a sweet end of night treat.

Make your wedding toast even sweeter with pink champagne truffles. Display them in foil candy papers for extra eye appeal.

Pink Champagne Truffles Recipe

Yield: Makes 12 small toasting truffles

Ingredients

• 7 oz. high-quality white chocolate, chopped
• 1 cup pink champagne such as KORBEL Brut Rosé
• 2 tablespoons heavy cream
• 1 teaspoon red flavored gelatin (strawberry or raspberry)
• Confectioners’ sugar

Directions

1. Pour the pink champagne into a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer until champagne has reduced to 1 teaspoon. Set aside and let cool slightly.

2. Set a heatproof bowl over a small pot of simmering water. Add the heavy cream and champagne reduction to the bowl and stir until combined and hot. Gradually add the white chocolate and stir until melted and smooth.

3. Sprinkle over the gelatin and mix with a rubber spatula until combined. Mixture will thicken slightly and a little of the cocoa butter may rise to the top — pour this off. Cover and chill.

4. Check for firmness at 5-10 minutes. This mixture firms up quickly and should not be left in the refrigerator for too long.

5. Roll the scooped chocolate with your hands into small balls (about the size of a large grape) and roll into powdered sugar. Serve truffles in fancy candy foils with a glass of champagne for the toast.

Add tasty flair to an elegant or rustic wedding reception with a dessert table that tantalizes guests while reflecting your unique personality.

Modern Farmhouse Chic

Tear a page from the Magnolia Home decorating handbook with a rustic dessert table featuring homemade tartlets, cupcakes and parfaits among other charming treats.

Berry Tempting

Show your colorful personality with berries galore, from beautiful berry tartstostrawberries dipped in chocolate or candy-coating colored to match your wedding hues.

Doughnuts Delight

Grab-and-go doughnuts and doughnut holes can be the perfect sweet treat for a morning wedding or a late-night reception. Stack them up, nest them in a tray or hang them on the wall for a gravity-defying display

A Little Bit Country

Use wooden boxes to display pies and other treats made from your family’s heirloom recipes to add just the right flair for your country wedding style.

For the Love of Chocolate

What could be more romantic than a dessert table of chocolates? Include homemade chocolate-mint bark or any of these chocolate candy treats.

Dreaming in Pastels

No matter what season, romance will be in full bloom with a pastel-colored candy bar. Add pretzels covered in white chocolate for a salty-sweet combination, or pastel almond bark.

Captivating Cakes

Who says you should have only one wedding cake? We say, the more the merrier. That way, you won’t have to settle on one flavor or style, either. Think ganache-draped chocolate cake, Victoria sponge layered with berries, butter cake with lemon curd filling…whatever you like!

Spring Is in the Air

Team up with your florist to surround a variety of cupcakes, tarts and this cherry angel trifle with flowers to create a garden-wedding dessert theme.

Everything on a Stick

No utensils (or plates!) needed when dessert comes on a stick. Fill a table with chocolate-dunked goodies like Rice Krispies bars and caramel apples. Or have a chocolate fountain with dippers like fruit skewers, bite-size brownies and soft pretzels (for that delectable salty-sweet combo). And if chocolate brown doesn’t fit your wedding palette, choose a different hue.

Drink Your Dessert

Sure, there’s a bar, but we’re talking about a treat on the sweeter side. For a winter wedding, how about a hot chocolate bar? In the summertime, guests could make their own milk shakes. (Your caterer provides a big batch of vanilla shakes, friends and family mix in the flavorings.) S’mores, anyone?