Nostalgic party food ideas?

[MrsHarker]

I quite fancy a tea party in the style of the birthday parties I remember from the 1980's eg

Cheese & pineapple sticks
Party rings/iced gems
Sandwiches cut into small triangles
Jelly in little bowls
Tinned fruit salad
Space invaders/skips

What else would be good?
Cheers

Vol au vents. Sausage rolls. Little sausages on sticks.

Pizza, onion rings, fairy cakes,

Fairy cakes or butterfly cakes - not the massive cupcakes everyone does now, but the wee dinky fairy cakes with icing and smarties on the top, or buttercream and "wings".

Battenburg cake!

Marmite sandwiches and twiglets (unless you're a "hater")

Old fashioned trifle? Not sure if this is a tea party thing, but it wasn't a party without a trifle in our house....

Ritz crackers with primula cheese spread squeezed onto them, so you could still see the ridges in the cheese.

Caterpillar cake
Cocktail sausages
Cheese straws
Rainbow drops
Flying saucers
Bowls of cherry tomatoes
Mini scotch eggs
Hula hoops and wotsits
Pink wafers
Cadbury chocolate finger biscuits
Panda pop

Ooooh this is beautiful!

How could I forget about pink wafers???

The cheese and pineapple sticks must be in a hedgehog
Also
Celery boats with cream cheese in ridge
Devilled eggs
Prawn cocktail
Cheese footballs
Jelly made in a rabbit mould

Sodastream to drink

Salmon mousse in a mould like this with cremola foam for the kids.

Vol au vents
Jam sandwiches
Deviled egg
Pink wafers
Ringos
Hula hoops
Trifle

Coke float- anyone remember those? Haven't had one since I was about 8/9 years old.

Jelly made in a rabbit mould surrounded by chopped up green jelly dotted with iced gems.

Fish paste sandwiches.

Hundreds and thousands scattered over cakes/custard.

Dandelion and Burdock or Cream soda to drink.

Party Rings (biscuits)

Iced Gems

Twiglets

You could really push the boat out and get a Viennetta!

cucumber crocodile

Rabbit shapped blamange sat on bed of green coloured desicated coconut

@grumpbum beat me to it! No 80's party complete without a punk blamange rabbit!

Evaporated or condensed milk to go with the fruit salad.

Banoffee pie if you're feeling adventurous! Angel delight if you're not!

Skips, wotsits, monster munch, those French fries crisps.

Mini sausage rolls

Great thread! I used to love coke floats.

I knew this was the right place to ask
Cheers everyone, I shall be hunting out the jelly moulds next time I'm at my parents home. Bloody brilliant!

PoohBearsHole
I would love to see a punk blancmange rabbit!
Great ideas for party food

😂 oops

However a punk rabbit was the era......

Ribena.
Cadbury animals
caburys choc fingers
pink wafers.
bows of crisps.
baps cut in half. with ham on. coro chicken.cheese and tomato.
jam sandwhiches
kit kats.
rice krispie cake
choc cornflake nests.
choc tiffin
mini flakes
tim out fingers.
twix fingers
penguins
haribo
birthday cake in novelty shape we had a sunshine shape.choc heldghogs.
chuppa chupps lollies
those bags of mixed retro sweets
coleslaw.
sandwhich triangles
mini pizzas
popcorn
selection of fruit platter
jelly beans
mini sausages.
garlic bread
selction of mr kipling
jam tarts.

One rabbit

Ooh there was something you could do with the shells of oranges to fill them with orange jelly and make boats with cocktail sticks and paper sails. I never had this kind of party but I would still love to do this!!

These things -

www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/297900385

Closest I could find as I have been overseas far too long and forgotten what they are called. Little cheese biscuity shapes thingies.