I had offered to help Alyssa with whatever she might need and suggested that if no one else was making her a breakfast, I could take one more thing off of her plate and do it for her. On my wedding day friends of mine prepared a wonderfully delicious breakfast for us and it was such a wonderful gift. It was one less thing to stress over and one less thing for my family or bridesmaids to take care of.
I found out that the brunch was a go Thursday evening when I got home from Alyssa's Bachelorette Breaking Dawn movie premier (ensue the stress) and I then went straight to the planning. Pinterest was a life saver and I was able to come up with a number of different ideas of what to make and with the help of the husband I was able to edit it down to making just a few mini bite size brunch ideas.
So Friday consisted of working 9 hours, planning what to make, making a grocery list, watching the Santa Clause parade with the Little Miss, buying groceries picking the husband up at the train station and staying up until 2am to bake. In the end I was pleased with the results and from the feedback from the wedding party the food was a hit.
The menu consisted of fruit skewers, bacon and cheddar scones (receipt here, except I lightly rolled in balls and put in muffin tins to cook), 8 minute mini cinnamon rolls (I roughly followed this receipt), mini blueberry muffins, yogurt parfaits orange-cranberry punch and store bought (I know shame, but I got lazy when it was 930 and I was just then getting groceries) mini doughnuts.
So in about 3 hours of baking (thank you husband for the help before you went to play video games) and 0 hours of cleaning, I was able to make a hot mess of the kitchen and what I would like to think was a pretty kick butt brunch, for a pretty kick butt lady.
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