Sweeten Your Hanukkah With a Dessert Table for All Ages

Homemade treats and creative thinking amp up a crafter's holiday table that you can easily re-create

Houzz December 2, 2012

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Brooke Pratt wants her family's dessert table to shout the arrival of the holidays this year. "I like things to be larger than life. It's just how I work," says Pratt, the crafter and maker behind Sucre Shop. Like many crafters, Pratt tries to outdo projects from holidays past by challenging herself to go where she's never gone before. Here she shares a dessert spread that's fun for all ages and more interactive and bright than the traditional Hanukkah table.

Sucre Shop

Pratt covered a wood crafts table with an ombré tablecloth and pushed it against a wall in her dining room. Then she literally put a new spin on the Hanukkah dessert table with typography, which she made out of foam-core board and globe string lights. For a more three-dimensional look, she added edging around each letter and brightened each letter with spray paint. (Get step-by-step instructions here.)

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Sucre Shop

"Yellow is only a slight departure from gold, which is typically used for Hanukkah; I love yellow because it's much more intense and bright," Pratt says. Yellow also symbolizes the flames of menorah candles.

Instead of setting the table with a menorah, Pratt created a menorah shape with pudding cups. She numbered shot glasses using gold stickers, put little stars on a glass for the shamash (extra light) and filled them all with blueberry pudding.

Sucre Shop

Pratt's kids are at an age when they can appreciate all the things that pop and sparkle. "Year after year their curiosity grows, and they really enjoy seeing how I've interpreted the colors and shapes of the holidays into each dessert," she says.

Pratt made these butter star cookies with royal icing by cutting holes in the center before baking, so each cookie can rest on top of a glass with a brightly colored striped straw poking through. She peppered the table with gold coins, or gelt, and dreidels.

Sucre Shop

A cake stand holds meringues sandwiched together with royal icing in the shape of a dreidel.

Sucre Shop

Pratt decorated these cookies with the Hebrew letters nun, gimmel, hay and shin. These letters create a Hebrew phrase that roughly translates to, "A great miracle happened there."

Sucre Shop

There's a reason Pratt's dessert table is loaded with fried items like doughnuts and olive oil cupcakes. "It's to remind us of the miracle of oil on Hanukkah," she says.

A tower of plain doughnuts and sprinkles next to condensed milk and honey invites guests to decorate and sweeten their dessert.

Sucre Shop

The symbols and colors of Hanukkah decorate these wooden scoops from Sucre Shop and make a lovely pair with the sprinkle bowls.

Sucre Shop

"Our Hanukkah dessert table reflects our love of all things sweet, fun, handmade and homemade. You'd be surprised at what a bright color here, a twist of ingredients there, can do for your table," says Pratt.

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