Wedding Receptions Recipes

If you're planning a buffet or sit-down dinner for a wedding reception, start your menu preparations for the perfect occasion here. From finger foods and punch to canapes, cocktails, and cake, our wedding recipes offer delicious ideas for both casual and formal receptions to mark the occasion.

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Classic Irish Coffee

From The Food Channel

Irish Coffee was originally created by an Irish chef/barman as a warm and welcoming drink for the first American tourists who arrived in Ireland via transatlantic passenger airplanes.

Classic Irish Coffee

Classic German Potato Salad

From The Food Channel

This is a potato salad you'll be proud to serve family or friends. Everyone will want the recipe.

Classic German Potato Salad

Cucumber-Lychee Sake

From Tyler Florence

Cucumber-Lychee Sake

Pickled Beet Martini

From Tyler Florence

Pickled Beet Martini

Petal Tea Sandwiches

From Better Homes and Gardens

The petals and leaves of Signet marigolds flavor these cream cheese-filled luncheon sandwiches.

Petal Tea Sandwiches

Wedding Cake Nests

From Better Homes and Gardens

To serve 50 guests, make one 10-inch cake and forty-eight 4-inch cakes. You'll have to make the cake and icing recipes five times and the frosting recipe twice.

Wedding Cake Nests

Orange-Champagne Cakes

From Better Homes and Gardens

Wow your Christmas guests by serving humble cornmeal cakes that are dressed-up with ground almonds, orange peel, and a lavish champagne-syrup.

Orange-Champagne Cakes

White Russian Espresso

From Tyler Florence

White Russian Espresso

Pineapple Mojito

From Tyler Florence

Pineapple Mojito

Grape Cocktail

From Tyler Florence

Grape Cocktail

Carrot Cake with Honey-Orange Frosting

From Better Homes and Gardens

This triple layer carrot cake is impressive to serve. Make it instead of a sheet cake the next time you need a dessert for a dinner party or special occasion.

Carrot Cake with Honey-Orange Frosting

Derby Mint Julep

From The Food Channel

For an authentic toast to the races, look no further - beware, these cocktails are no joke, but they are sooo good!

Derby Mint Julep

Champagne Wedding Cupcakes

From Better Homes and Gardens

Champagne Cake, a Midwestern specialty that appears at many special celebrations, is deliciously light-tasting, but possesses a delightfully fine and firm crumb. There's no need to break the bank buying expensive champagne - a 7 or 8 dollar bottle of sparking wine is perfect for these cupcakes.

Champagne Wedding Cupcakes

French Pear Mocktail

From The Food Channel

The delicious flavor combination of pear, elderflower and ginger works great with or without alcohol. This recipe is the "virgin" version.

French Pear Mocktail

Chocolate Brigadeiros

From Fine Cooking Magazine

Like many Brazilian sweets, fudge-like chocolate brigadeiros are named after a famous personality. Brigadier Eduardo Gomes was a well-known Brazilian Air Force commander who loved chocolate. Legend has it that brigadeiros were created for and named after him.

Chocolate Brigadeiros

Asian Appetizer Meatballs

From Kellogg's

A spicy, hot-and-sweet plum sauce glazes these baked, turkey meatballs.

Asian Appetizer Meatballs

Peanut-Butter Truffles

From Taste of the South

Peanut-Butter Truffles

Moscow Mule

From Tyler Florence

Moscow Mule

Corn Bread Cassata

From Better Homes and Gardens

This is a version of a traditional Italian cassata (kah-SAH-tah), an Italian-style layered cake typically served at weddings and other celebrations.

Corn Bread Cassata

Tenant's Harbor Punch

From Fine Cooking Magazine

This punch is named for a quiet, windswept point on the rocky coast of Maine. I made this punch there for the summer wedding of two friends. The caraway-flavored aquavit was made in Norway, near the bride's hometown.

Tenant's Harbor Punch

Pomegranate Spritzer

From Tyler Florence

Pomegranate Spritzer

Peach Fizz

From Tyler Florence

Peach Fizz

Champagne Truffles

From Better Homes and Gardens

Ring in the New Year with these creamy melt-in-your-mouth chocolate morsels.

Champagne Truffles

Carrot Tea Sandwiches

From Taste of the South

Carrot Tea Sandwiches

Pistachio Brigadeiros

From Fine Cooking Magazine

Brigadeiros are Brazilian candies that owe their melt-in-your-mouth texture to sweetened condensed milk, cooked down until it's thick and fudge-like. Though chocolate brigadeiros are the classic, pistachio is a tasty flavor variation.

Pistachio Brigadeiros

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