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A (Mostly) Gluten-Free Baby Shower

Gluten Free Baby Shower

August 18, 2017 //  by Marian Mitchell//  8 Comments

I recently had the honor of helping plan the food for my dear friends’ baby shower. Chelsi Jo is an amazing friend and wonderful host. She is also an extremely talented Event Stylist and owner of Two Lemons In Love. She used this wonderful event as an opportunity to let her and her friends’ talents shine. We had a lot of fun planning the food and the styling. I style food everyday with my food photography but this was a whole new adventure for me. I love making food (especially healthy and gluten-free food) look as delicious as it is.

The Food

For this shower, Chelsi wanted an array of finger foods, reminiscent of a wine tasting party without the wine. We wanted a fun contrast in colors, with the central color focus being peach and blush tones.  We found gluten free crackers from the local health food store and bread from a local bakery.

On this platter, I used were Back To Nature Gluten Free Multi Seed Crackers and Glutino Table Crackers. I paired the crackers with my homemade hummus recipe (available in my cookbook The Dish) and topped with a tablespoon of my dairy free pesto. Then loaded the tray up with black grapes, dried apricots, and carrot slices.

Gluten Free Baby Shower Denise Karis Photography
Photo by: Denise Karis Photography

For this platter, I did an olive medley mixed with roasted garlic, raw cashews, black grapes, herbed goat cheese, and cured meats.

Gluten Free Baby Shower
Photo by: An Enchanted Day Photography

 

Gluten Free Baby Shower
Photo by: An Enchanted Day Photography

On this tray, I had sweet baby pickles, cinnamon sugar almonds, honey goat cheese, pink raspberries, local honey, and an apricot pepper jelly.

Gluten Free Baby Shower
Photo by: Dana Gibbons Photography

 

Gluten Free Baby Shower
Photo by: An Enchanted Day Photography

This tray was loaded with black grapes, whole walnuts, rice crackers, herbed goat cheese, cured meats, raw cashews, and the pinky/peach raspberries.

Gluten Free Baby Shower
Photo by: An Enchanted Day Photography

 

Gluten Free Baby Shower
Photo by: An Enchanted Day Photography

This is a mixed greens salad with golden beets, golden raisins, cranberries, pepitas, quinoa with crumbled goat cheese and my balsamic vinaigrette dressing.

Gluten Free Baby Shower
Photo by: Meagan Gibson Photography

I also made a fun pinky-peach mocktail I loving call my Lemon Strawberry Basil Mocktail. It is sparkling water infused with fresh strawberries and mulled basil. I strained out the strawberries and basil, then added lemon juice and simple sugar to taste. The mom-to-be and I prefer it on the tart side. So for 32 ounces of sparkling water, we used 1/4 cup simple sugar and 1/3 cup lemon juice. I used about 8 ounces of strawberries cut into fours and a stem of fresh basil. Isn’t this so fun and pretty?!

Gluten Free Baby Shower
Photo by: Dana Gibbons Photography

 

Gluten Free Baby Shower
Photo by: Dana Gibbons Photography

Desserts

I did not make the desserts for the shower, however, they still deserve a shout out! They were gorgeous and delicious, but not all were gluten free. There were french macaroons (made with almond flour) from Amour De Sucre that were amazing.

Gluten Free Baby Shower
Photo by: Meagan Gibson Photography Macaroons: Amour De Sucre

Boyer Bakery made a beautiful gluten filled cake I was told was absolutely perfect. Bouncy, moist, and the perfect amount of sweet.

Gluten Free Baby Shower
Photo by Meagan Gibson Photography Cake: Boyer Bakery

 

Gluten Free Baby Shower
Photo by: Dana Gibbons Photography Donuts: Amour De Sucre

I did buy gluten free cookies by Cookes Con Amore. Some were placed on the donuts for aesthetics on the donuts but I saved plenty on the side to enjoy.

Gluten Free Baby Shower
Photo by Meagan Gibson Photography Pastries: Amour de Sucre

The baby shower was fun and relaxing. I am honored to have my food photographed by local photographers and recommend you go to their respected websites to check out their work. The venue SoHo63 was beautiful and the staff helpful. Chelsi is talented and did amazing work making the room come to life.

And watch this gorgeous video by Tara Nichole Photo.

Two Lemons in Love Soho 63 Baby Shower :: tara Nichole Photo :: Chandler, AZ from Tara Nichole Photo on Vimeo.

 

Venue: SoHo63
Styling and Details: Two Lemons In Love
Flowers: Two Lemons In Love
Rentals: Tremaine Ranch
Make Up: Kristina Patterson
Cake: The Boyer Bakery 
Pastries: Amour de Sucre
Food and Drink: Road to Living Whole
Photographers: Meagan Gibson Photography, Dana Gibbons Photography, An Enchanted Day, Denise Karis Photography

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  1. Fi Morrison

    August 22, 2017 at 12:00 am

    Yum! The food and set-up looks amazing! I’ll definitely have to share with my Gluten Free mumma friends! Thanks for writing this post 🙂

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  2. ada

    August 22, 2017 at 7:57 am

    wow everything looks so wonderful and healthy! I would feel bad to even touch the food 😀 Your friend is so lucky to have you !

    Reply
  3. Emily | The Multitasking Mom

    August 22, 2017 at 5:15 pm

    Everything looks amazing and so delicious!! So beautiful!

    Reply
  4. Natalie @ Obsessive Cooking Disorder

    August 22, 2017 at 5:46 pm

    What a wonderful spread for the baby shower! Can’t believe how gluten free it is!

    Reply
  5. Dominique | Perchance to Cook

    August 22, 2017 at 8:19 pm

    What a spread!! Everything looks just delicioussssss! And I love how it’s mostly GF.

    Reply
  6. Julie I Aloha Lovely

    August 23, 2017 at 7:33 pm

    What a beautiful and sophisticated spread. Love it!

    Reply
  7. Blair villanueva

    August 29, 2017 at 8:20 am

    It doesn’t seems like a baby shower and I like your spread! Very inspiring and healthy!

    Reply
  8. Shauna Coleman - Walker | shaunacoleman

    August 29, 2017 at 10:56 am

    I have a friend who has to eat gluten free foods. She seems to be more stressed out now than before when eating the wrong foods. I think the cost mostly is what does her in.

    Reply

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