If your baby shower guests want to eat and not snack like little bunnies, I have a few food suggestions for you. These are really popular with the guys but some gals (like me) love them as well.

Dump a large package of small smoky sausage links into a saucepan and cover it with a bottle of bar-b-que sauce. Let it simmer while you prepare decorations or other foods.

Bake a large bag of chicken wing drumettes, plain on a cookie sheet. Dump them in a very large bowl with melted butter and Frank’s Red Hot Sauce following the measurements on the back of the bottle. Stir. You now have hot wings. be sure to serve celery sticks and ranch & blue cheese dressing on the side.

Wash approximately 6 medium potatoes and cut into large chunks with the skin on. Toss them in a gallon sized zipper storage bag. Add 2-3 tbsp. of extra virgin olive oil. Zip and shake until coated. Add a packet of ranch dressing mix or a few tsp. of seasoned salt. Zip and shake again. Spread onto a cookie sheet and bake until golden brown and tender, approx. 30-45 min.

I prefer to use a silicone baking pad with the potatoes and chicken wings so they don’t stick and we don’t have as much clean up.

There is no better crowd pleasing drink (non-alcoholic, anyways) as punch. My absolute favorite and oh-so-easy punch is just perfect to feed a thirsty baby shower crowd. You can also color coordinate your punch with your baby shower theme.

Here’s the recipe…ready?

So Easy A Baby Could Make It- Crowd Pleasing Punch

Ingredients:

half gallons of Sherbet, any flavor

2 ltr. bottle of Lemon-Lime flavored soda such as 7-Up or Sprite

The amount of sherbet and soda that you will need will depend on the number of people you are feeding. For a small crowd (8-10)I like to have 2 blocks of sherbet and 2 or more bottles of soda. You can always serve the extra soda seperately.

Directions: (Follow along now. This gets tricky.)

Unwrap cardboard from entire block of sherbet and set in large container. (We’ll talk more about this in a bit.) Pour 1 bottle of soda over block of sherbet. Serve.

It’s really not at all as hard as it sounds. Here are some creative ways to spruce up your punch.

Color coordinate your punch with different flavors of sherbet. Raspberry will obviously turn pink for a girls theme. Pineapple can be used for a gender neutral theme or if you are just looking for that exotic flavor.

Scoop the sherbet into balls if you have a little extra time and let them float around the soda. If you choose this method, you can use different flavors and mix up the colors. Doesn’t pineapple mango sound really good!?

Toss the punch bowl and use an interesting container such as a bath tub, small (unused) diaper pail or a cute plastic wastebasket(new) that matches baby’s nursery.

Add some floaties. By that I mean those cute little plastic ice cubes, rubber ducks or other bath toys.

Don’t forget the ladle!