Sweet buffet

themull1

Hi, Im doing a sweet buffet for 120 people and i want 10 different flavour sweets, how many of each should i get? 1 - 2 kg? It sounds a lot, but 3kg of love hearts would only fill a large mixing bowl and i dont want to run out.

sheeppappar

I reckon a reasonable way to work it out would be to say that a "quarter" of sweets is a satisfying portion (quarter of a pound is how they used to be sold .. not meaning to patronise sorry just not sure how old you are!!).

That's about 115g so if you round up to 125g you would get 8 portions in a kilo - so for 120 portions you'd need 15kg in total.. so your estimate seems about right to me - say 1.5kg of each...

The only other thing to think of is - will everyone want their full portion? People normally say you should cater for only a percentage of your expected numbers at a normal buffet so I suppose the same could apply here and cut it down a bit x

HTH

themull1

Im old he he, (not that old - is 45 not the new 35?) i remember lbs and oz, i'll get at least 15 kg, there are some big sweet eaters in our family, this is in addition to a normal buffet, just fancied being a bit Americany, its our third wedding each so running out of ideas....lol.

sheeppappar

Sounds fab xx have a lovely day!

themull1

Cheers, its our third marriage each and the last so we're going to make the most of it!!

Stephb1986_2

I'm having a sweetie table too I'm having sweetie trees if anyone wants the instruction just give me a shout

Steph xx

themull1

Stephb1986 wrote: »

I'm having a sweetie table too I'm having sweetie trees if anyone wants the instruction just give me a shout

Steph xx

I'd like to know - i know the oasis ball etc, but apart from lollies how do you stick the sweets on? and how many sweets per head are you catering for?

continualdiamond

I'd go 2kg each to be on the safe side. A friend of mine did a sweetie table for her sons wedding, she organised it all and went for over kill with the sweets and it was a good job she did and she said people were stocking up bag fulls to take home.

Re sweet trees I have only ever made one, made it for my hubby's 30th and I use flying saucers at which I used tooth picks to stick them on.

my_definition

Stephb1986 wrote: »

I'm having a sweetie table too I'm having sweetie trees if anyone wants the instruction just give me a shout

Steph xx

Could i have the instructions please? Wasnt going to do trees but might be good idea to have onenonneither side of the table.

Thanks

Stephb1986_2

I'm not able to put the instructions on here as they are in a PDF if you pm me with your email address I'll send them over

Steph xx

Mojisola

themull1 wrote: »

Hi, Im doing a sweet buffet for 120 people and i want 10 different flavour sweets, how many of each should i get? 1 - 2 kg? It sounds a lot, but 3kg of love hearts would only fill a large mixing bowl and i dont want to run out.

Some sweets may be more popular than other so you could get more, for example, love hearts.

Also, sweets are different weights - compare 2kg of sherbet lemons to 2kg of flying saucers.