After I collected sweet tables for the birthdays of many close children: nephews, nieces, crosses and babies of friends, I finally got around to writing a great post about this. I will tell you how, without resorting to the expensive services of decorators, to make a stylish Candy Bar, decorate a photo zone and prepare unusual sweets. The first part is just about sweets. Get inspired and decorate!

Now the Candy bar, but in our opinion, the sweet table, as they say, is in trend. Indeed, if you do everything in the same style and think over original decorations and treats, then the kids will just squeak with delight. My niece, for example, when meeting guests, warned everyone: "I have such a gorgeous table there!"

The tradition came from America, small buffets with goodies are extremely popular there. Every detail must be thought out to the smallest detail, all in tone, under a single style. There are even traditional sweets for the children's bar. They are bright, elegant, serve not only as food, but also as decoration.

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Cupcakes- cupcakes decorated with whipped cream, cream, mastic or chocolate. It is considered special chic to make such sweets in the theme of the holiday or in the colors of the general decor.

Tip: At the grocery store, you can buy a pastry pencil with jam or boiled condensed milk and write inscriptions and drawings on the cupcakes. Experiment with mastic, it is freely sold in large supermarkets (just above the video on how to work with it).

Cake pops are cakes that taste like the traditional delicacy "potatoes" (by the way, it will work too). The cooking principle is similar, but a little more complicated. Small balls are made from the biscuit mixed with cream, which are then decorated with glaze and placed on a wooden skewer. By the way, instead of a cake, you can put on an apple on a peak, dipping it in caramel or chocolate.

The fastest option, if there is no time to cook cake pops, is chocopaques. The sticks in them hold very confidently, it looks dignified.

Cake pops recipe

For the test: butter - 40 grams, sugar - 80 grams, egg - 1 pc., milk - 70 ml, baking powder (or soda), flour - 4-5 tbsp. spoons (with a slide), tangerine zest - 3 tbsp. spoons.

For balls: icing sugar - 2 tsp, butter - 20 grams.

For glaze: milk chocolate - 50 grams, butter - 10 grams, cake sprinkles.

Preparation

1. Drive the egg into a bowl, add sugar and whisk until foam forms.

2. Mix 40 oils with the same amount of sugar and grind until smooth.

3. Pour milk into a bowl with an egg, after stirring add a mixture of butter and sugar. Stir vigorously and add the tangerine zest to the mixture.

4. Combine baking soda / baking powder with flour and add to a bowl. Mix everything until smooth.

5. Place the resulting dough in a mold and bake until golden brown.

6. Grind the cooled biscuit, put in a bowl, add butter and powdered sugar. Connect everything. Roll small balls from the resulting mass.

7. Insert the skewers into the balls and put the dessert in the refrigerator.

8. To prepare the glaze, mix chocolate (or sugar with dye) with butter and melt in a water bath.

9. Dip each cooled ball in glaze, roll in pastry powder and again in the refrigerator. Dessert is ready!

Marshmallow- marshmallows in small airy pieces. This is the kind of fried scout in American movies. Remember? You can buy it now in almost any large supermarket.

Liquorice- bright licorice sticks are not only colorful, but also useful. The delicacy is based on licorice juice. Found in pastry shops.

Gingerbread. There are many recipes and types of jewelry. You can order from the craftswomen or bake yourself. We have published a wonderful one, on the basis of which you can build any gingerbread figures.

Use special pastry gadgets like silicone or iron molds, multi-colored mastic, ready-made sprinkles and sugar decorations.

Cake. There are a lot of masters who create real culinary masterpieces. Before placing an order, be sure to check out their portfolio. The home version will look no less solemn.

Biscuits. The more original it looks, the more popular it will be with children. I baked button cookies a couple of times. They look great, but they cook quickly and easily!

Ingredients: 200 g flour, 100 g butter, 80 g sugar, 2 yolks, 2 tsp. vanilla sugar, 2 tsp. cocoa powder (or food coloring "by eye" to the desired shade).

Preparation: Grind the yolks well with plain and vanilla sugar. Add soft butter, stir well. Sift the flour in portions, kneading the dough with a spoon each time.

Put half of the mass in another container, blind with your hands into a lump. In the second part, add cocoa / dye, knead a little and also mold into a bun. Put both types of dough in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

Roll out the light dough into a layer about 5–7 mm thick. Cut out the circles with a mold (for this I used an inverted glass with a diameter of 5 cm). Then make a dent on each circle, but do not cut it to the end (I pressed it with a lid from a plastic bottle with a diameter of 3 cm).

Then make two or four through holes in the center, as in a button. For this purpose, take a juice tube (you can use a match or other suitable object). Again mold the remains of the light dough into a ball and roll it out. Make blanks until the dough runs out. TDo the same with the painted half.

Prying with a spatula or knife, transfer all the mugs to a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Put in an oven preheated to 180 degrees. Bake for about 20 minutes.

Cool the finished cookies completely. You can pour with chocolate, decorate with ribbons.

Macaroons. These are small multi-colored cakes made from airy dough.

Traditional meringues are perfect for their role. But I still attach the original recipe ...

Beverages

Can be poured into colored paper cups or baby juice bottles. I make a festive sticker on them, tie a ribbon and ... the beauty is ready!

On the Internet, I came across little smart children's mini-coolers. For a sweet table - a wonderful option.

As for the drinks themselves, it is convenient to buy juice immediately in bottles. Although, as practice has shown, homemade fruit drinks and lemonades are an excellent alternative to any store.

Table accessories

Look great cupcake coasters... You can buy paper ones from online stores, sites like Ebay, or make your own. detailed master class.

Look original piece sweets in banks. You need to find beautiful glass or plastic transparent containers and fill them with sweets, pills, marshmallows, marmalade, chocolate wedges, cookies, corn sticks ... Whatever your heart desires. Little lovers of sweets will look at such constructions with curiosity and will be happy to get themselves a treat.

I took the usual inexpensive high glass vases... They look very stylish and cost only 100-200 rubles. I bought silicone lids for glasses as lids.

Until the next holiday, the vase is in the kitchen and serves as a cookie cutter. Convenient, by the way!

For berries, you can use colored paper cups... Nice and straight away in portions. Sometimes I put small cookies in them. Ergonomic if the table is narrow and there is not enough space for plates with treats.

Chocolate fountain. If fruits don't compete well with sweets, a dripping warm chocolate design will help. It is beautiful and delicious. Pieces of fruit planted on skewers, touching the fragrant waterfall, become an unusual and refined delicacy. You can rent or buy.

Instead of spoons, you can use wooden sticks(like a popsicle), which are best decorated in an original way in the same style as the whole table.

Plates take colorful and bright ones. In the theme of the holiday, they can be ordered on different sites or found in large stores.

Have a wonderful holiday!

What is a children's holiday without a sweet table? Parents definitely want to pamper their children and guests with something tasty and unusual. But you can please children not only by serving goodies, but also by beautifully decorating a table for sweets, which is called a candy bar. This tradition came to us from America, where it is customary to make candy bars at weddings and other special events. A beautifully decorated table with snacks or sweets will make your holiday creative, magical and delicious!

Tips for decorating a candy bar:

1. Usually the table for sweets is decorated in the same style that suits your celebration. Today it is fashionable to devote children's holidays to certain themes, fairy tales, cartoon characters.
2. Choose a small table, which is predominantly placed against a wall to decorate the backdrop. For the background, you can use various decorative elements: balls, garlands, paper flowers, ribbons, etc.
3. A tablecloth is spread on the table, which can also be decorated depending on your desire.
4. Choose cookware in the same style, preferably in a neutral color. Coasters and vases on high legs, beautiful jars, cocktail tubes will also come in handy.
5. Accessories in the form of flags, postcards, inscriptions, toys, flower arrangements, labels can be made by hand. You can also find many matching candy bar decor accessories in craft and decor stores.
6. And, of course, sweets. Often the cake is the main place, it is placed in the center. Cupcakes, macarons, cakes, glazed cookies, marmalade, marshmallows, marshmallows, baklava, sherbet, fruits and berries, dried fruits, glazed nuts and beverages are also served.

Features of the candy bar for kids event:

• the candy bar can serve as a buffet, so you lay out whatever you have prepared. It should be borne in mind that sweets should be enough for everyone invited, and children, as you know, are still sweet tooth. Therefore, for very little ones, it is better to lay out more fruits, berries, cookies and homemade drinks;
• candy bar as a compliment and gratitude to the guests for coming. When the guests leave, each of them will take sweets with them. To do this, it is worth putting bags (preferably paper ones), boxes, so that it is convenient to carry home your sweet gifts;
• it is better to use plastic, wooden, tempered glass dishes;
• It is better to serve drinks in portions to avoid broken dishes. Serve hot drinks separately.

Can you imagine a holiday without sweets and other sweets? Of course not. Since childhood, any holiday has been associated with cake, pastries and sweets. That is why the candy bar, decorated with our own hands for the holiday, as a tradition that came from European countries, is firmly entrenched in our life and everyone likes it. After all, it is not only tasty, but also beautiful and very stylish.

What is a candy bar

Candy bar is a type where the whole assortment is represented by sweets. It differs from the sweet table familiar to us since childhood, first of all, by the huge number of decorative ornaments on the chosen topic.

The second important distinguishing point is that each sweetness on such a table is a separate work of art.

What holidays is the candy bar suitable for?

A do-it-yourself candy bar can be created absolutely for any holiday. The tradition of treating guests with sweets at the end of the feast is appropriate for any celebration. And if it is still beautifully designed, then the pleasure will also turn out twice as much.

The candy bar will be an integral part of the children's party. And it doesn't matter that this is the very first birthday of a baby or a teenage party. The main thing here is to correctly determine the design theme. Although anniversaries for the older generation have also never been spoiled by any sweets.

At the wedding, the candy bar will appeal to all guests. Such corners look especially delightful at a celebration designed in a particular style or color. Of course, all sweets are also made in the same color scheme.

Do not forget also about all kinds of themed parties that we have loved lately. For example, pajama parties or Halloween or any other holiday. Such a table can become the center of the entire decor.

Registration rules

When creating a candy bar with your own hands, it is important to remember some generally accepted rules.

The first rule tells us that the entire table should be decorated in the same style, have its own idea and color scheme. It is very good if all this echoes the theme or idea of ​​the holiday itself.

Rule number two. Calculate the number of candies correctly. All guests should have enough of each treat for several times.

The third design rule calls for creating a zest for a sweet table. There must be something that sets your candy bar apart from everyone else. Will become your personal feature.

And finally, the last but not least important rule. No need to chase expensive sweets and designer jewelry. Better to apply your own ideas. And then you can achieve the maximum effect at the lowest cost.

What can be used for treats

So, what traditionally can you put in a candy bar? The center of the whole composition can be a cake. It is very good if it is original enough and fits the theme into the style of the holiday. If the cake is not included in the party menu, then it will be successfully replaced by a large and beautiful vase with other goodies. Or even several tiered dishes. The main thing is that the accents are correctly placed.

All kinds of cupcakes are also great for treats. For example, small-sized muffins that contain cream of different taste inside. They can be vanilla, milk, chocolate, fruit, and many others. As for the decorations, there are no limits for the implementation of ideas.

Making a candy bar with your own hands is rarely complete without cake pops. They are small ones that are made in the form of a ball put on a stick. From above, they are abundantly poured with caramel or chocolate and rolled in various confectionery powders.

Another great dessert is macarons. This delicious glued together fruit fillings made it to us from France. Thanks to food coloring, it can be of all colors of the rainbow.

But, in fact, absolutely any cookie of an interesting shape will find a worthy place for itself in your candy bar.

When choosing sweets, do not ignore marshmallows, marmalade, caramel, oriental sweets, as well as various nuts in colored glaze. All this can be beautifully placed in various glass containers and decorated accordingly.

The candy bar can contain fruits, both fresh and dried, as well as candied fruits. They are placed in cute serving boxes.

And, of course, don't forget about drinks.

General background

The background for the sweet table is of great importance. He sets the whole theme and idea. Use fabric, balloons, banners, ribbons, paper decor. The main goal is to make your candy bar stand out from the overall interior. Make it as visible as possible. You won't need a regular tablecloth here. It is better to use several fabric cuts, which will help make the table more attractive and match the theme.

Dishes and accessories

Various glass containers, as well as high-legged vases and multi-level structures look best on the table with sweets. But nothing will prevent you from decorating the most ordinary jars with unusual stickers and ribbons and filling them with various goodies.

Use flower arrangements, figurines, postcards or flags with inscriptions, pictures on skewers or beads on threads in the design. All this looks very impressive. And besides, it can be done with your own hands.

Attractiveness and convenience for guests

Your candy bar should definitely be visible. If the event has a global scope, then it would be very appropriate to put signs with the words: "Candy Bar" or "Sweet Table". So each of the guests will know where the most delicious is located. All treats are served in small portions so that they are convenient to use. There should be various devices for applying sweets, as well as napkins. It is customary to place small bags or boxes at the edge of the table for those who want to take sweets with them.

Children's candy bar: we create a miracle with our own hands

No children's holiday can be complete without sweets. In fact, apart from sweets, children seem to need nothing at all. It remains to make very little effort so that all this is not only very tasty, but also very beautiful.

First of all, you will need glass containers, preferably heavy, so that they cannot be easily and effortlessly knocked off the table. These containers need to be filled with a huge amount of multi-colored sweets, which will be both a treat and a decoration at the same time.

It is unlikely that the children will master so many sweets, and you will not have to replenish candy stocks for a long time.

Use colored paper and wooden skewers to create a variety of colorful decorative items. Buy candy on sticks and use them to collect sweet bouquets. Lay out treats on different levels so you can fill the space evenly and beautifully.

Don't forget to decorate the room. All details should form a single composition of a specific topic. Use paper, balloons, flags, or ribbons. Photographs arranged in a garland or placed all over the wall also look good.

Making a candy bar for children with your own hands is not at all difficult. Add some theme. Boys will surely love the cowboy or Native American style of decoration. And the little princess will appreciate the abundance of red and pink sweets, decorated with bows and ribbons in color.

Candy bar wedding

A candy bar, decorated with your own hands for a wedding, will not only become the highlight of the celebration, but can also replace the bonbonnieres, in which sweets or souvenirs are usually placed for guests. Or it will simply act as a sweet buffet table. In any case, it will be stylish, beautiful, tasty and unusual.

Your guests can be offered two ways to use the candy buffet. They can take sweets with them, filling the prepared boxes with them according to their taste and desire, or enjoy sweets directly at the holiday, using plates instead of boxes.

When designing a wedding candy bar, stick to the general style. You can address this question to holiday decoration specialists and florists.

Use the names of the newlyweds and the date of the wedding in the design. You can hang a banner on the wall with this information, and also indicate it on the boxes or plates that you intend to use.

How to decorate a candy bar with your own hands for a birthday

Not only children, but also adults simply adore sweets. Many of them remain sweet tooth until a ripe old age. So how to make a DIY candy bar for adults? They don't have to be sweets and cookies. If the holiday falls on a hot season, then an ice cream bar will serve as a great alternative. Place in it containers with nuts, small candies, crushed waffles and other goodies that you can sprinkle on ice cream.

Stock up on waffle cones and other tasty containers and cold treats, and invite guests to assemble their own cooling dessert. All kinds of ice cream syrups, which are now presented in a large assortment in stores, will also be appropriate on such a table.

And even your beloved grandmother on her anniversary, you can easily please by creating a candy bar for her with your own hands. Of course, she may not be able to appreciate modern sweets. But look for an alternative.

In this case, use simple cookies, bagels, buns and vases with honey and various types of jam. And the emphasis on such a table is to make a samovar with aromatic tea. Well, why not an old-fashioned candy bar?

So, in this article, more than one candy bar was considered. The photos (with your own hands, as you can see, you can create real masterpieces) presented in the review convincingly prove that you only need a little imagination and a little effort to do without the help of specialists.

Candy bar is a beautiful foreign tradition of bright and unusual design of a sweet table for a holiday. It should definitely be taken into service, because it helps to create the right atmosphere and charge guests with the “right” energy. The idea is good for both children and adults, especially themed ones. This is a great gift for a birthday boy. Candy bar can be ordered ready-made or made with your own hands, showing a little imagination. Let's talk in more detail about the main rules and methods of its manufacture.

Choosing a theme

Any candy bar is a set of sweets and fruits, selected and decorated in a pre-selected style. The main theme of the design is chosen based on the wishes of the participants in the celebration and the reason for the holiday.

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For a new year, Valentine's Day, wedding, birthday or Halloween, the table will be decorated in completely different ways. For a children's birthday, you can choose a theme that will become the leitmotif of the holiday, if only the birthday person likes it. Pirates, cowboys, travel and adventure for boys, princesses, romance, fairies, shabby chic for girls. All these themes can be successfully played in the design of a sweet bar.

Filling

Candy bar can consist of any sweets and fruits to choose from. In the foreign tradition, it is customary to use:
meringue,
cookies (ginger, chocolate, different shapes and always small),
cupcakes in paper tartlets,
keypops - mini-cakes on sticks,
cakes (mini format, cut into squares, French macarons are especially popular),
cakes,
cheesecakes,
fruits and nuts in chocolate or yogurt.

All delicacies, as a rule, are small in size, and large ones (cake or pie) are cut into small pieces. All of them are freely available on a buffet basis, when each of the guests has the opportunity at any time to come up and choose whatever he likes on his own.

Fundamental rules

There are several rules for making a classic do-it-yourself sweet bar.

Sort items by color

Sweets are selected according to the principle of one color, placed side by side or successfully combined in one jar in the form of combinations of two colors - red and white, red and gold, shades of blue or any other.
The color scheme once again emphasizes the main theme of the holiday (blue - in a nautical style, shades of cream - vintage, black and red - for Halloween, and so on).

Using cookware of different heights

Multilevel table decoration is encouraged. For this purpose, specially selected dishes are used. To effectively arrange the sweets on different levels, help:
- plates,
- glass jars with transparent lids,
- multi-tiered pedestals,
- paper cups.

The choice of dishes is very important, so you need to approach it very carefully! With it, you can transform even the most familiar things. For example, ordinary milk can look completely different if you pour it into small transparent bottles with colorful lids, insert bright striped straws inside and decorate the composition with small bows.

Lots of paper parts

Everything should be thought out down to the smallest detail:
- finely cut multi-colored paper in a dish,
- serpentine,
- confetti,
- fabric ribbons,
- all kinds, sachets and,
- individual postcards,
- paper figurines complementing the main style.)

Lettering

Not a single candy bar is complete without beautiful plates, inscriptions,. You can make them yourself, print them on a printer, arrange them using scrap paper or colored cardboard, buy ready-made foam or wooden inscriptions. How to place it in the bar? Very simple:
- put wooden ones on the table,
- stick paper inscriptions on cups and jars,
- print templates of beautiful paper boxes and envelopes and cut them out of cardboard,
- hang a candy bar banner over the table and decorate it in the form of a garland.
The main task is to maintain a uniform style and skillfully select matching details. Here are some good examples of combining elements in different themes.

Safari Park

Check out this great example of a safari style candy bar!

The main color scheme - a combination of shades of brown and orange - is successfully complemented by pieces of fabric with black and white stripes, like a zebra. A special safari passport is prepared for each party participant. Plates with animal stencils look original and bright.

On each disposable bottle and caps with their own hands, special stickers are glued, printed on a printer on self-adhesive paper. Glass jars are wrapped in burlap, striped cloth and tied with twine. Several large orange lilies become a bright accent of the table and successfully set off the "animal" theme, helping to make the decoration more festive.

Romance and vintage

Here are some beautiful ideas for a vintage DIY buffet setting.

The simple idea of ​​wrapping small glass jars with lace and tying with twine is just perfect for creating a romantic mood!
A light monochromatic pedestal for cupcakes in pastel colors, transparent vases with sweets selected in pink tones, a delicate garland of flags above the table and, of course, a vintage inscription with the name - all these details look great in combination with each other.

Candy bar is an occasion for fun creativity and the implementation of the most daring ideas, an occasion to train in the ability to combine different details and create a single mood with their help. Don't be afraid to experiment! Making a candy bar for any holiday with your own hands is not at all difficult, but terribly fun!

If you decide to include a candy bar in your wedding banquet, please note the following points:

The number of guests, the theme of the holiday and the color scheme - these are the three pillars of a good candy bar.

Ideally, your sweet table should be a continuation of the main concept of the holiday, an island of exquisite joy.

One more rule - candy bar sweets should be miniature. Pieces of pie, cookies, cakes are delicious, but not very suitable for a stylish candy bar at a wedding.

MOST COMMON
TYPES OF SWEETS FOR CANDY BAR:

The little baskets we know, profiteroles, meringues or cookies with icing are also common options for filling the sweet table.