Springtime Dessert and Coffee Bar

I was craving a little spring!  After a long winter full of snow, we had been teased with a week of nice weather before being pumelled (again) with another 12 inches of snow.  I was getting spring fever and needed a fix of sunshine - quick!





We have a group of friends who get together once a week for dessert and fellowship, and this week everyone was gatherting at our house.  So I went to the store and bought a boquet of spring flowers and decided to go from there.   I decided to bake up some spring into a spring themed coffee and dessert bar for our group of friends. 





I decided to make a no bake lemon cheesecake and serve some fresh fruit, with chocolate dipping sauce, along with a coffee bar to suite everyone's palet.  I made the cheesecake the night before and cut up the fruit while it was setting.



Click here for the Low Carb Lemon Cheesecake Recipe!



The day of the party, (which was a Thursday night when my husband was working late), I fed the children and cleaned up dinner, then covered the table with a yellow table cloth, quickly put the silverware into napkins, rolled them up to look like flowers, then placed them in a centerpiece bowl.  I then melted the chocolate for the fruit dip. 

Click here for the Chocolate Dip Recipe!



 

 

While the chocolate was melting for the dip, I set up the coffee bar.  The coffee bar included 3 coffee flavorings (2 sugar free and 1 regular), as well as homemade whipped cream and chocolate chips to put on top.  I made coffee and hot chocolate and put the flavors on the table and - wha-la - 30 minutes later was ready to entertain.

My guests (all 12 of them), saw the coffee bar and dessert and devoured it -- so quickly that I didn't even have time to take pictures before they started to gobble!  It really was a hit - and easy to do.  Easy enough that I'll definatley do it again! 

The nice thing about this dessert bar was that I didn't need to sacrafice any of my current "food morals" and yet everyone was able to endulge and enjoy.  It was easy to prepare on a week night and required little clean up, too.  It was quick and easy, and neither my heart, nor my thighs, suffered!