Help me think of "Blue" foods

[lavenderblue]

Yes, the color blue LOL

I'm making a charcuterie board for a baby shower tomorrow. The Mom is pregnant with boy/boy twins. Besides the obvious Blueberries, is there anything else? I was thinking of doing some white chocolate covered strawberries and dying the chocolate blue, but other than that I'm stumped. 

[gottadobe]

Blue cheese

[glw]

Blue corn chips

[mrsd2006]

Blue tortilla chips

[bbdoll]

Blue crab

[womet]

Blue M&Ms. The red, white, and blue ones should be out for 4th of July and the Olympics.

[followyourarrow]

A blueberry yogurt dip for fruit.
I've had a blueberry goat cheese.
I think blue hershey kisses exist.

I'm pretty sure there is a Godiva chocolate that comes in a blue wrapper.

[Bad Dingo]

You can use butterfly pea flower powder as a natural dye (if you have time to order or find locally).

You could dye whip cream and vanilla pudding and then have fruit and cakes to dip in it. You could even dye vanilla cake blue.

[pixy0stix]

Concord grapes are bluish

[Patsy Baloney]

Dove milk chocolate is blue in the wrapper.

This feels very Percy Jackson’s mom, lol.

[thebreakfastclub]

I would not do this, sorry.

[marie]

Similar to the strawberries, you could dip pretzels in white chocolate that was blue

[deadwing]

I think I might lean on the twins aspect instead of the boy aspect. Two types of cheese. Two types of crackers. Etc.

Blue isn't a very common food color. Food dye generally tastes gross. And, isn't it time to get away from gender norms?

[TR]

lol this place

[momin2013]

You could make a potato salad with blue potatoes

ETA: just realized you said charcuterie board; the salad could be a side if you needed one…

[icedcoffee]

Sweet or savory? Sweet will be easier. I'd do blue strawberries, some blueberries, those blue frosted cookies, blue chocolate covered pretzels,

[Patsy Baloney]

Does anyone else find light blue more appetizing than dark blue? I think if you do chocolate dipped things, I might do white chocolate and milk or dark chocolate, then do a light blue candy melt drizzle.

[Jalapeñomel]

Blue raspberry slushies lol

[picksthemusic]

Blue Jell-o, you can dye whipped cream blue to top other things that aren't blue.

Is there a theme with like Grover or Cookie Monster? Another blue character? Or just blue in general?

[thebreakfastclub]

May 17, 2024 15:02:26 GMT -5 TR said:

lol this place

My only point was that the collection of savory blue foods is random at best, somewhat gross at worst.

[icedcoffee]

May 17, 2024 15:17:17 GMT -5 Patsy Baloney said:

Does anyone else find light blue more appetizing than dark blue? I think if you do chocolate dipped things, I might do white chocolate and milk or dark chocolate, then do a light blue candy melt drizzle.

My biggest complaint with dark blue is it requires SOOOO much food dye that sometimes the stuff starts to just taste blue. And also it turns your poop green. 🤪

[jinkies]

May 17, 2024 16:17:45 GMT -5 thebreakfastclub said:

May 17, 2024 15:02:26 GMT -5 TR said:

lol this place

My only point was that the collection of savory blue foods is random at best, somewhat gross at worst.

I'm with you on this. But I'm on record as hating any food that prioritizes theme over taste.

If you are committed to charcuterie, I would do a regular board, and then grab one or two blue-wrapped candies to scatter on the board (like blue wrapped hershey kisses, or small bowl for blue m and ms). I think that just a couple bright blue wrappers on normal food will "read" intentionally blue better than a board with blue chips, blueberries, and blue cheese. 

[renna]

You should be able to find light blue sprinkles for cookies, cupcakes...would look really cool on white frosting.

pic of strawberry_white chocolate_blue sprinkles

Ha! Look at these nutter butter cookies!


pic of nutter butter cookies


Pretzel rods, white chocolate and drizzled light blue or sprinkles?


pic of pretzel rods

Could you do a dessert area/charcuterie board AND a separate area for the crackers/cheese/fruit charcuterie board and focus the light blue on the dessert board?

[sonrisa]

I'd have a few blue foods on offer: blueberries, blue cheese, maybe blue corn chips, but otherwise make the blue accents non food items: scatter a few blue pansies, use blue plates or napkins, blue irises in a vase, etc.

Personally, I find adding blue to other foods makes them less appetizing than without the blue - even if it's just a little blue in white chocolate or some blue sprinkles on top. 

[basilosaurus]

May 17, 2024 14:30:01 GMT -5 Bad Dingo said:

You can use butterfly pea flower powder as a natural dye (if you have time to order or find locally).

You could dye whip cream and vanilla pudding and then have fruit and cakes to dip in it. You could even dye vanilla cake blue.

I know you can get on amazon next day. It's a local ingredient here that a shared with a friend in hard to reach Hawaii who was testing his bartending skills, and he got it only a day later.

[gummybear]

I would just do a regular board and use blue toothpicks, napkins/plates and doilies (if available). I’d fill in the crevices with blueberries and blue m&ms. And have some of the naturally blue things as accessories like others have mention (blue corn chips etc).

Or…plot twist… you could go with an entirely other theme. Sweet gerkins, mozzarella balls, pigs in a blanket, pepperoni and other meats unsliced that guests can cut themselves, cherry tomatoes, mini cucumber… the possibilities are endless here and it’s a lot more creative 👹

[rachers]

May 19, 2024 7:32:29 GMT -5 gummybear said:

I would just do a regular board and use blue toothpicks, napkins/plates and doilies (if available). I’d fill in the crevices with blueberries and blue m&ms. And have some of the naturally blue things as accessories like others have mention (blue corn chips etc).

Or…plot twist… you could go with an entirely other theme. Sweet gerkins, mozzarella balls, pigs in a blanket, pepperoni and other meats unsliced that guests can cut themselves, cherry tomatoes, mini cucumber… the possibilities are endless here and it’s a lot more creative 👹

I would do this. A giant tray of random blue foods won’t look as clean and seems like the food would have to be random.

I’d do charcuterie as normal and then add in a few blue things and do blue for the paper products and decorations.

Simple is best for that imo.

[macmars45]

Blueberry yogurt covered pretzels. I've found them in bulk at my local Winco.

[jennistarr1]

coming to echo as others have said, do a normal charcuterie board, but find some pops of blue in either accessories, decorations, foods with blue wrappers (lindt truffles), and some naturally blue foods (blueberries, blueberry goat cheese, blue cheese, blue corn chips). I actually think that blackberries and kalamata olives, while not blue, would actually fit the bill here. for the normal charcuterie stuff, I would keep the colors fairly neutral so the blue pops. I think this is going to look amazing and you will get a lot of compliments

[sonrisa]

May 19, 2024 7:32:29 GMT -5 gummybear said:

.

Or…plot twist… you could go with an entirely other theme. Sweet gerkins, mozzarella balls, pigs in a blanket, pepperoni and other meats unsliced that guests can cut themselves, cherry tomatoes, mini cucumber… the possibilities are endless here and it’s a lot more creative 👹

so basically go full bachelorette party on that unborn baby genitalia? Dick straws and cake, too?