Birthday parties are great events for caterers. They provide lots of opportunities to get creative with the menu and there will be lots of guests to impress. Use a birthday party as a platform for showing off your food-related skills.

Birthdays will always feature a cake as a centrepiece. It’s a good idea to prepare for this well in advance. Get some ideas from the party host about what kinds of things they like. They might prefer to have a fruit cake to a sponge cake, for example, or they might want certain types of icing. If they want a complicated design, this will ensure that you have plenty of time to put it together.

Make sure that you have plenty of other choices as well. Whilst a cake will look and taste good, it won’t be very filling. People will need more substantial food, especially if there are going to be alcoholic drinks for guests. You may want to decide on a theme, such as BBQ food, or food from a particular country. For example, Mexican food can provide lots of options, for vegetarians and vegans as well as meat eaters. Whatever you choose, you’ll want to make sure that there is plenty of finger food which is easy to eat.