Jungle Baby Shower: Food

Part 2 of the Jungle Baby Shower is the most important food! I made a bunch of tasty quick and easy appetizers for the late afternoon shower.I decorated the table with Baby Lion King food tents and children jungle themed books.

Banana Monkey Bread

12 Frozen Pre-made Rolls, Slightly Thawed and Cut Into Quarters

1/4 C Sugar

1 and 1/2 TSP Cinnamon

2 Ripe Bananas, Sliced

1/2 C Butter, Melted

1/2 Brown Sugar, Packed

1 TSP Vanilla Extract

1. In a freezer bag, mix rolls with sugar, cinnamon, and bananas.

2. Then put in greased bundt pan, and then cover with towel and let the dough rise to twice the size for about 2 hours.

3. Preheat oven at 350 degrees fahrenheit.

4. Mix melted butter with brown sugar until melted and then pour over the risen rolls.

5. Bake for 30 minutes and then let cool for 5-10 minutes before you serve it on a plate.

6. Finally flip pan over onto the plate to keep the ring shape, then serve, and enjoy!

Tiger Tails

1 Bag of Pretzel Rods

2  12 OZ Bags of White Chips

Red and Yellow Food Coloring

1 12 OZ Bag of Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips

1. Double boil white chips. (Double boil- boil water in pot and then in a glass boil add chips and mix around until melted smoothly. Be careful not to overcook or the chips will clump and not become smooth.) Next, mix in 5 drops of red food coloring and 5/6 drop of yellow food coloring to make the chocolate look orange. Depending on your mixture you may have to add more food coloring. Then dip rods into the chocolate mixture about 5/6 of the way up and let them dry on a cookie sheet that is covered with wax paper.

2. Finally melt the chocolate chips in a double boiler. Then put in a sandwich bag, cut a little bit of a corner, and drizzle onto the dried orange chocolate to look like stripes.

Hippo Hummus

Bunch of Celery

Small Bag of Baby Carrots

Red Bell Pepper

Cucumber

Container of Hummus Original

Cut vegetables up in stick shapes, so it is easy for people to grab.

Beetle Wings and Red Pepper Ranch Dip

1 Roasted Red Pepper or Jar of Red Peppers

1 8 oz Cream Cheese

1 Packet of Ranch Mix

1 Red Pepper, Cubed

Bag of Ruffle or Wavy Chips

1. How to roast a red pepper: Set oven on broil and put pepper in oven and flip to char all the sides. Next then put in bag to steam, and then peel off the skin, take off the stem, and wash out the seeds.

2. Add peppers, cream cheese, and ranch in a blender/food processor. Once smooth, mix in the raw peppers and serve in bowl.

3. Make sure you refrigerate the dip before serving, so that it is firm, and enjoy with chips.

Gorilla Grapes and Dip

Bag of Red/Green Grapes

Package of Strawberries

1 8 OZ Cream Cheese

1/2 8 OZ Container of Marshmallow Fluff/Cream

About 20 Bamboo Skewers

1. On skewer add about 8 grapes and top with strawberries.

2. Mix cream cheese and marshmallow cream together, and microwave for 30 minutes or untill the cream cheese is soft enough to mix.

Kangaroo Pouches

2 8 OZ Canisters of Refrigerated Crescent Rolls

1 16 OZ of All Beef Little Sausages

1. Preheat oven at 375 degrees fahrenheit.

2. Break up the crescents and wrap two sausage in each.

3. Place on cookie sheet and bake for 12 to 15 minutes until golden brown.

Muddy Game

1 64 OZ Package of Pre-made Meatballs

1 12 OZ Bottle of Chili Sauce

12 OZ of Water

1 C of Grape Jelly

Add all ingredients into crockpot. Set on high and cook for 4 hours. Once it is cooked, bring it down to low to keep it warm.

Jungle Juice (Green Lemonade)

1 Gallon of Green Hawaiian Punch

2 Liters of Sprite

2 Gallons of Lemonade

Mix together, add ice, serve, and enjoy.

Safari Grub (Trail Mix)

Goodie Bags

Mixed Nuts

Animal Crackers

M&Ms

Pretzels

Dried Fruit

Cereal (Chex or Cheerios)

Buckets and shovels

Add items into buckets, so that your guest can make their trail mix goodie bags to take home. 

Jungle Cupcakes

This is the one thing that I did not make. I got cupcakes at the local grocery store with colored whipped icing. They were okay, nothing special.

Then I topped with some sugar decals that were Baby Lion King that I found on Etsy.

Cupcake Decals: https://www.etsy.com/listing/151089484/baby-lion-king-edible-cupcake-toppers?ref=listing-15