Planning to throw a woodland forest themed party but not sure what to serve your guests? Take a look at this list of 22 unique woodland forest party foods that your guests will love. This list includes appetizers, entrees, and desserts to ensure every dish you serve will be fit for the forest.
Appetizers:
- Wild Berries
Serve a classic berry tray filled with strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, and raspberries with a side of fruit dip. To make this dish really stand out, place the fruits on a Wooden Log Slice to go along with your woodland theme. - Cheese and Tomato “Mushrooms”
Create some forest mushrooms out of cheese and tomatoes for an easy woodland treat. To make them, just skewer a cheese stick slice and top with a round cherry tomato.
- Hedgehog Cheese Ball
Add a hedgehog to your buffet table with this cheese ball recipe by Tastes Better From Scratch. Just follow the recipe to make the cheese ball and then add almonds for the quills. For the eyes and nose, use black olives. Place your hedgehog on a Wooden Log Slice Plate and surround with crackers to complete the dish! - Ladybug Cheese Wheels
Add some flying lady bugs to your forest with some Mini Babyel Cheese Wheels. Just cut a slit on one side of the red wax and then paint black dots on the remaining wax. Serve them in a tray or scatter them among your other foods to make it look like ladybugs are flying around your woodland forest. - Rabbit Food Vegetable Tray
Turn an ordinary vegetable tray into a woodland rabbit garden. To create the garden, set out your vegetables like normal and surround them with a Brown Wooden Picket Fence. Add some pine cones, acorns, pine needles, and other greenery around the fence to really give it that woodland feeling. Finish the garden off by placing a Straw Bunny Figurine right among the vegetables.
- Trail Mix Bar
Create a trail mix bar by placing different nuts, dried fruits, and chocolates in some Wooden Acacia Bowls. Your guests will love picking out their favorite treats and creating their own mix. You can even have some Forest Themed Treat Bags at this station for your guests to fill and bring home as a party favor. - Stuffed Mushrooms
An appetizer straight from the forest floor, these stuffed mushrooms by Downshifology will be a perfect fit among your woodland party foods. They are extra cheesy and stuffed full of herbs and garlic for a flavor that your guest will love. - Themed Drink Bar
Set up a forest themed drink station to keep your guests hydrated during your party. Fill up some Large Drink Dispensers with whatever drinks you plan to serve and give them some fun forest names. Some ideas include creak water for plain water, pond water for tea, and morning dew for fruit flavored water.
Entrees:
- Honey BBQ Sliders
Check out this recipe for honey bbq pulled pork by What’s Gaby Cooking. This pork is slow cooked for 8 hours and comes out incredibly tender. Need a faster cook time? This recipe also has instructions for a 2 hour cook time. Once cooked, you can serve this pork on slider buns and top with these Woodland Bear Toothpicks for a delicious entree. - Tree Slice Pinwheels
Pinwheels are a great party food and look just like tree slices when stacked on top of each other. This food is especially great because of how versatile it is. It can be filled with whatever you like. Check out this recipe by A Couple Cooks which uses cheese, spinach, and sun-dried tomatoes for the filling.
- Butterfly Pasta
You can turn any pasta dish into a butterfly pasta by using bow tie noodles. This quick and easy pasta salad recipe by Inspired Taste uses zucchini, tomatoes, bell peppers, and lots of other vegetables to make your “butterfly” noodles look like they are flying through a forest meadow. - Honey Roasted Salmon
Serve a dish straight from a woodland stream with this recipe for honey roasted salmon by Aubrey’s Kitchen. This recipe combines sweet honey with smokey salmon to create a delicious forest themed entree. You can serve this salmon with vegetables, on crackers, or as part of a charcuterie board. - Mini Spinach Quiches
A quiche is a pastry crust that is filled with milk, eggs, cream, and whatever other ingredients you want. When filled with creamy cheese and spinach, they will look like a natural part of any woodland forest. For a tutorial on how to make these miniature quiches, check out Feeding Tiny Bellies.
- Forest Themed Sandwiches
Create a woodland themed sandwich tray by making your sandwiches shaped like trees. Use a Tree Shaped Cookie Cutter to get the shape right every time. If you’d rather have your sandwiches shaped like animals, then check out this Woodland Creature Cookie Cutter Set. It includes a deer, a fox, and a hedgehog.
Desserts:
- Deer Antler Cupcakes
Add two broken pretzels to the top of a plain cupcake to create adorable deer. This is an incredibly easy way to add some woodland creatures to your spread. Your guests will love seeing this whole herd of deer! Another option is to use these Deer Antler Cupcake Toppers instead.
- Birch Branches and Mossy Logs
Chocolate covered pretzels are always a real treat! Especially when you make them look like birch branches and mossy logs. To make the birch branches, use white chocolate to dip your pretzel sticks in, and then drizzle brown chocolate on top. For the mossy logs, dip your pretzel sticks in brown chocolate and then roll it in cake crumbs that have been dyed green. Complete these treats by adding some Edible Icing Mushrooms among the chocolate. - Candy “Acorns”
Decorate your sweets table by adding some candy acorns among your other dishes. To make them, follow this recipe by Belly Full. It uses chocolate kisses, mini vanilla wafers, and chocolate chips all held together with melting chocolate to form the sweetest woodland treat. - Swiss Roll Tree Stumps
Swill rolls are chocolate sponge cakes rolled around a creamy filling. The best part about them? They look just like tree stumps making them a perfect fit for a woodland forest theme. Whether you serve it as a whole trunk or cut it into slices to make tree stumps, this treat will surely delight your guests. Check out this recipe by Sally’s Baking to find out how to make it.
- Doughnut Hole Hedgehogs
Create some adorable hedgehogs out of doughnut holes, icing, and sprinkles for a forest treat that your guests will love. To make them, dip one side of each doughnut hole into some chocolate icing and then cover the icing with chocolate sprinkles. Finish off your hedgehogs by using the icing to paint eyes and a nose on each. - Cinnamon Roll Fox Tails
An easy sweet treat that you can add to your table are some cinnamon roll fox tails. Just place some cinnamon rolls on a tray with a fox tail Woodland Themed Food Label and you’re done! This dish is especially delicious if you plan on having your shower for brunch. - Mushroom Marshmallows
Stick a marshmallow on a kabob and dip it into some red melted chocolate. Once dry, give it some white chocolate circles to make adorable mushrooms that you can place around your forest themed sweet table.
- Chocolate Ladybug Strawberries
Add these cute ladybugs to your desert table to make your guests feel like they are in an enchanted woodland forest. To make them, dip the tip of your strawberries in melted chocolate. Once dry, paint some eyes on the chocolate. Then add some chocolate spots along the rest of the strawberry to create some cute little forest friends.
I hope you found these food ideas helpful. Let me know in the comments which woodland forest party foods you plan to serve at your party.
Need more woodland forest party ideas? Check out Woodland Forest Baby Shower – 34 Ideas for an Enchanting Party.
