Waffle Bar

David and I are always looking for good meals to make when hosting a large amount of people. Something easy, delicious, relatively inexpensive, and nice. When we were planning to host a large gathering of family of friends to celebrate the birth and the Baby Blessing (similar to a Christening, find more about our faith at www.lds.org) of our third child, we decided to have a brunch before church. After all was said and done we concluded that it had been a huge success and that we should blog the details so that we could remember what we bought and that it was a great idea. So this post is a little different, in that it's not really a recipe for a meal (I mean, we just used pancake mix for the waffles) but rather - it's the details for a waffle bar / family gathering. 

Waffle Bar
Serving about 30-40 people.

Food Supplies:
1/2 bag Pancake Mix (abt 5 lbs) - $6/bag
2- 50 ct bags Banquet Brown-N-Serve Sausages - $5.50/bag
Maple Syrup and Raspberry Syrup (purchased at Maceys) - $6
2 gal Chocolate Milk
24 eggs - $5

Asked people to bring:
Raspberries (topping)
Strawberries (diced, topping)
Strawberries (quartered)
Grapes
Mini Chocolate Chips
Whipped Cream
Orange Juice

Other Supplies:
3 waffle irons
2 electric skillets
Paper cups, plates
Plastic Silverware


Setup/Notes:
We found that 3 waffle irons was the perfect number. We started making waffles about 20 minutes before people started arriving and that was enough to give us a good stack so that waffles were still warm but we didn't have people waiting around for a waffle. We had eggs cooking in one electric skillet and the sausages cooking in another. There were plenty of toppings, with the fruit and the chocolate chips. I am glad that I grabbed the raspberry syrup, because although it was a last minute addition I think it made the whole thing feel nicer. (But I am glad that I didn't get a whole lineup of specialty syrups.)

We thought that this went really well and we'd definitely do it again.