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Mushroom Themed Picnic Party

Modified: Aug 23, 2024 · Published: Aug 1, 2023 by Dannyelle Nicolle-Ramjist · This post may contain affiliate links · Leave a Comment

This Mushroom Party picnic with mushroom decor, and mushroom themed sweet and savoury foods is the most beautiful party.

Mushroom themed party picnic in backyard.
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  • Why We Love This Party
  • The Mushroom Decor
  • Mushroom Centerpiece
  • The Place Settings
  • Mushroom Themed Food Ideas
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • More Mushroom Inspiration

Why We Love This Party

  • Mushrooms are the cutest and we love how trendy they are right now.
  • Outside was most beautiful setting, and we including lots of fun mushroom decor ideas.
  • Our menu of mushroom themed food including great savoury and sweet options.

Our mushroom themed picnic party with mushroom themed decor and mushroom themed food ideas was so much fun.  We had the best afternoon enjoying our sweet little picnic, and I'm so excited to share all the fun details with you.

We love themed picnics. You might also like strawberry themed picnic, cherry themed picnic, butterfly themed picnic, or our daisy themed party.

Mushroom party with mushroom party decor and food.

The Mushroom Decor

We set up our picnic in our backyard, in a nice shady spot under the apple tree.  The table was actually a table top with screw on legs.  Instead of adding the legs, we set it up on baskets to create the perfect picnic table height.  You could also use a sturdy board on top of baskets.  

We then draped it with a white linen table cloth.  We surrounded the picnic with blankets and pillows for a really comfy and pretty spot to sit and enjoy.  

Mushroom themed picnic party table with mushroom food and decor.

Mushroom Centerpiece

One of the highlights of the table and our mushroom party decorations were these gorgeous mushroom vases.  You can purchase the mushroom vases here and here.  

I love the colours they came in, and they set the tone for a muted pastel colour scheme rather than bright colors.  We filled our vases with garden flowers, and some Queen Anne's lace.  They were so beautiful.  

We also added in some tall wood mushrooms for a little height and contrast to the delicate flowers and vases -find similar wood mushrooms here.

Mushroom themed party table with glass mushroom vase filled with flowers.
Mushroom themed tablescape with pink glass mushroom vase willed with flowers.
Mushroom themed tablescape with a green glass mushroom shaped vase filled with flowers.
Mushroom themed centrepiece with glass mushroom vase filled with wildflowers.

The floral candle holders were a fun DIY.  I pressed some garden flowers in some heavy books and when they were dry I used some mod podge to glue them to some old glass yogurt containers.  

We used some citronella candles in ours, so not only were they beautiful, but they helped keep any bugs away too.

PInk glass mushroom vase filled with flowers, and a glass candle holder with dried flowers on it.

The Place Settings

We used simple side plates and black forks for our place settings.  The cute glasses with ribbed glass are from Ikea.  I love that they work for just about any drink, and they're sturdy and inexpensive.  

The star of the show was the mushroom napkins.  I ordered this fabric from spoonflower.  They have so many amazing options available.  You can order them as napkins, or buy the fabric and make them yourself.  I loved the colours and pretty pattern, and they added so much to our mushroom themed table.  These were a great alternative to something like using a mushrooms paper plate, because we can reuse these over and over, and they gave a similar effect to the table.

Mushroom themed party table with mushroom napkins, flowers and food.
Mushroom party table with mushroom themed foods and decor.
Mushroom themed party table with stump chocolate cake with meringue mushrooms and flowers on it.

Mushroom Themed Food Ideas

Stuffed Mushroom Caps

We started out with some savoury themed mushroom foods.  These little nibbles were perfect for our mushroom-themed party.  I love this stuffed mushroom recipe.  These ones are made with breadcrumbs.  Lots of recipes use cream cheese, but I prefer these, and they're a little more picnic friendly.  Serve them hot or at room temperature.

Mushroom themed party food of stuffed mushrooms and mushroom bruschetta.

Mushroom Bruschetta

This mushroom bruschetta is such a favorite.  It's so easy and any mushroom lover is sure to love it.  

Start out by slicing mushrooms, and adding them with some minced garlic, diced onion, salt and pepper, fresh thyme, butter, and a little bit of worcestershire sauce to a frying pan.  Saute everything until the onions are translucent.  Cut some baguette slices and toast lightly.  Spread them with some boursin cheese and then top with the mushroom mixture.  These are so yummy and easy to make.

Mushroom bruschetta on a marble and wood serving tray.
Mushroom themed appetizers on a marble and wood serving board.

Tree Stump Cake with Meringue Mushrooms

The star of the show was our tree stump cake.  It was a lot of fun to create and the gorgeous centerpiece of the table.  I love using the food as part of the decor and incorporating it instead of having a separate food table.  If you like to bake, this cake is a fun project.  It would make a lovely birthday cake, if you were celebrating with a mushroom picnic.  

To create it we started out by baking this chocolate cake recipe.  We layered it with chocolate frosting.  For the outside of the cake we made it look like bark by melting chocolate, spreading it on some parchment paper and then rolling up the paper with the melted chocolate.  Once it's set, unroll the parchment and you have nice long shards of chocolate that look like bark.  We frosted the sides of the cake, and then added the chocolate shards.  It creates such a pretty bark effect.

Wood stump chocolate cake decorated with meringue mushrooms and real flowers.
Chocolate wood stump cake with chocolate bark, meringue mushrooms, and cake crumb moss.

We also wanted to add some mushrooms to our tree stump and some moss.  We made edible moss by crumbling some green cake.  The mushrooms are made from meringue and put together with melted chocolate.  Then we sprinkled some with some cocoa powder to make them look more like wild mushrooms.  These were so cute on the cake and a really delicious crunchy addition.  If this party was for a 1st birthday, it would be fun to make a smaller or cupcake version as a smash cake.  The meringue mushrooms would make great cupcake toppers too.

Homemade chocolate stump cake with chocolate bark and mushrooms.
Homemade chocolate stump wood look cake.

Lastly we added some fresh flowers.  Do a little research before hand, and make sure the flowers are edible.   The flowers really added to our woodland feeling.

Chocoalte wood stump cake with meringue mushrooms.

Mushroom Cookies

We also made some mushroom cookies.  These were so yummy and so cute.  We used this recipe for peanut butter thumbprint cookies, but instead of making a heart, we make a mushroom indentation.  Just be sure that when they come out of the oven you quickly go over the indentation with the back of a small spoon before they cool.  

We used raspberry jam for the red mushroom tops, and vanilla frosting for the polka dots and the mushroom stem.  The combination of the peanut butter and jam is a match made in heaven, making these cookies not only adorable and perfect for our mushroom theme, but also so delicious.

Mushroom serving tray filled with mushroom thumbprint cookies.

If you were making goodie bags for your guests, these would be really cute in a cellophane bag tied with some pretty ribbon for guests to take home.

Mushroom themed outdoor picnic party.

This party was so much fun and I can't think of a better way to spend an afternoon with friends.  A mushroom themed party would be perfect for a baby shower, birthday party, or first birthday party for the little girl who loves mushrooms.  Adding fairies to this theme would be really cute too.  These ideas would also be perfect for a woodland party.  Keep these ideas in mind for your next party.

With a mushroom themed picnic party to enjoy, life really is a party!

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I make the food ahead of time?

Yes, make your stuffed mushrooms ahead of time and bake just before serving. Prepare your mushroom toppings for the mushroom bruschetta ahead of time, and assemble just before serving.

How do you make the low picnic table?

Use a table top or board and use two or three solid square baskets or bins down the centre to hold it up.

More Mushroom Inspiration

  • DIY mushroom wreath
    Mushroom Spring Wreath
  • DIY velvet mushroom craft in pink and white.
    DIY Velvet Mushroom Craft
  • Stuffed mushroom recipe.
    Easy Italian Stuffed Mushrooms Recipe
  • DIY felt mushrooms.
    Felt Mushrooms

If you tried this Mushroom Themed Party or any other ideas on my blog please let me know how it went in the comments below. Thanks for visiting today!

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