Pinterest Lover: What will it Bee?? #2 FOOD

This is the food section of the shower. I decided that I needed a layout for the food so I could keep everything straight in my head. I drew a diagram so I knew how everything should look on shower day and so I could keep a list of what food items were made and what still needed to be done.

There is a list on the back with day by day things I needed to do so I wouldn't be stressed. :D
I made cake pops and Black Bottom cupcakes:

Cake pops are made by making a regular cake (I made mine in a 9 X 11" pan with the regular recipe on the back of the box). After the cake is cooled completely you break the cake up in a bowl until it is just crumbly. Take one container of icing and mix it with the cake. This just barely holds together. Roll them into small balls and then put a sucker stick in each cake pop and dip them in melted chocolate. Today I displayed them on a plate so I let them drip standing straight up, but I have previously made some and displayed them stuck in styrofoam that is placed in a pot so I dried those on their sides. (see them in the back of this photo?)

Black bottom cupcakes are:
1 C. sugar
1 1/2 C. Flour
1/3 C. cocoa
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 C. water
1/2 C. Oil
2 tsp. vanilla
1 T. vinegar
1 egg
Mix well, then fold in 3/4 C. chocolate chips. Fill the cupcake tins 1/2 full with this mixture.
Then mix together 8 oz of cream cheese softened (don't use "less fat" or Non-fat - it won't work - I've tried it.) 1/3 C. Sugar and one egg. Beat well. Then put a large spoonful of cream cheese mixture on the top or pushed down into the chocolate mixture a little bit. Bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes.

Check out the cute bee fabric I found. I tore off the ends of the fabric into a square and used it on the island. I used a couple of books in different areas to add height.
Cucumber Feta Cheese rolls - I don't really like Feta Cheese, but I was hoping friends would like these and they were a hit! (I didn't have any dill so I left it out). I found them here:

http://www.goodlifeeats.com/2011/12/cucumber-feta-rolls-holiday-recipe-exchange.html

I made chicken salad sandwiches. I bought the chicken salad from Costco, added sliced almonds and cut up grapes. They were yummy!

I made this cool jello mold. My Mom makes a layered jello every holiday and it's become a family tradition. So when I saw this on Pinterest, I thought, I can do that!

http://rock-ur-party.tablespoon.com/2011/05/23/spiked-rainbow-salad/

Usually we make our layered jello in a 9" X 11" pan. I thought no sweat, I'll use my regular recipe and make it in a jello mold. But the jello mold didn't turn out as well as I wanted. Next time I would make it in the 9" X 11" pan. You take 5 or 6 - 4oz jello flavors. For each layer of jello boil one cup of water and mix with one flavor of jello. Divide in half. In one half add 4 T of sour cream (fat free of course) and wisk. Place this layer in the pan in the fridge. Make sure this layer is even, use a papertowel or whatever you need to make it level. After 30 minutes add 4 T of water to the other half of the jello and add it to the first layer. Continue layering the jello until it is finished.

In addition, I covered pretzels in chocolate. I drizzled some pretzels and added sprinkles to other ones.

In the middle of the table I had a tray of Mexican food.