Today we’re going to be talking about having a fun date night with a dice theme. Previously I talked about a black and white ball themed date night. You can tell I like black and white – dice are obviously also black and white, but we’re going to focus more on the dice shape and numbers, and on using the dice and playing dice games. If you feel like a fun date night at home with your hubby, here’s some inspiration.
We’re talking about a dice theme. Obviously, you can put actual dice on your table and have them ready to play with. You can also elegantly arrange them if you have a whole lot. Sometimes you can get bigger dice, which are fun. Basically, the food is going to imitate the dice. You can use things like cube shaped serving trays, like a box that you put something in, or you even just use square plates.
You can use food to make dots on the tray or plate in the shape of the numbers on a dice. Making a six is good because then you can use lots of items – two rows of three items. On some plates, you can put one item in the middle – maybe a bigger item, since the one.is always bigger on a dice. You can do the two shape from the dice, the three shape, the four shape, or any of the numbers that you get on a dice. If you have a white square plate or platter, big or small, then you can put items on that in the shape of a dice.
You can also make skewers with black and white foods alternating. You can use things like black olives and mozzarella balls. Then you can put the skewers next to each other to make a dice effect. You can make a five in an X formation, or a six in two rows of three. Obviously if it’s just the two of you, you’ll want to use smaller plates so that it still works. If you don’t have square plates, that’s fine – just use round white plates and make the dots still appear like a dice.
You can make a dice tower by stacking cube-shaped bites like cheese cubes, sandwich squares, or brownie bites, into towers of six. You can use white cubes with a black dot topper – use a toothpick to add edible black dots, or use small olives to make a dice face pattern on the top.
Again, think of the dice’s faces. You can put one deviled egg in the center of a plate. You could put two mushroom caps at diagonal corners of a white plate, like a two on a dice. You can put one olive in the middle of a plate with two others diagonally to make a three. You can make a four with mini sliders, one in each corner. You could do cheese balls – one in the center and four in the corners. You could use cucumber rounds to make six dots in two vertical lines.
Those foods are close to black and white. We can’t always have exactly black and white, but that’ll be the overall look. Maybe your napkins could be black and your tablecloth white. You could use mini dice labels – small cube shaped labels or signs on toothpicks to show what each food represents. You could even create a dice shape with some containers. If you have clear, small containers, you can fill them with things like popcorn, cheese cubes, or olives, and then arrange them in the shape of a dice on one area of the table. You could spread white marshmallows out on the plate as your base, and then put six Oreos, in the shape of a dice pattern on top of the marshmallows.
You could have a dice-rolling snack bar before your meal. You need to have foods labeled one to six, and then you roll the dice and you have one of whatever that is. It could be an olive or a little chocolate – you could also do this for dessert with things like tiny marshmallows.
In the food, you could even use colors that are not necessarily on dice, because you do get colored dice. You could use some cherries, or anything that’s small and round, as a dot.
Here are some ideas for specific courses for your dice themed dinner for the two of you. You could do a dice face platter for your appetizer. Use a square plate and arrange the black and white foods in the pattern of the dice face. You could make five dots with olives, and then put cheese cubes in between them. You can pair that with some charcoal crackers and white dips like whipped feta or garlic aioli.
You could also do mini diced caprese bites using small mozzarella cubes and black cherry tomatoes or olives on toothpicks. Put a cube, then a tomato, and then an olive, or use just two of those options. Then arrange them in two neat rows like a dice face.
For the main course, you could make a sushi platter that’s dice inspired. Take six square sushi pieces, and arrange them on a square black plate. You can use a black plate with the white toppings as a reverse dice. You can make the dice stack with the cubes as the main course. Build cube shaped food towers with polenta cubes layered with mushrooms, goat cheese slices, or cubes of steak, layered with mashed potatoes.
Here are some ideas for sides. You could use some bread. See if you can get black bread – four slices of something like the charcoal bread that we’ve seen. You also need four slices of white baguette or sourdough. Arrange them in a two by two pattern. You can also do the dice dot salad plate. Take a round white plate, and put small dollops of black olive tapenade or balsamic reduction to be dipped into. Then arrange your cherry tomatoes, small mozzarella bowls, or blackberries in a five or six dot pattern on the plate.
Then for dessert, there are dice themed mini cheesecakes or brownies. You can have two small square white cheesecakes or two square brownies with some white cream or icing dolloped on the plate. You can have black and white chocolate fondue. This can be white chocolate fondue with black dippers like blackberries, oreos, or dark brownie pieces, or you could do a dark chocolate fondue with white dippers like tiny marshmallows, pieces of banana, cubes of cake, or anything white.
Then, for your table settings, you can use either a black or a white tablecloth, and the alternate napkin; a white napkin on a black tablecloth, or vice versa. You could put dots of food on your napkin. If you lay the napkin flat in a square, you can place a couple of edible things like olives, blueberries, or chocolate chips on it. Chocolate chips sound the best to me on the napkins. You can also use decorative dice. Stack them or put them on little cubes, like little boxes if you have any.
You can play dice games. What are your favorite dice games? You can play Tenzee with lots of dice. Yahtzee is another fun one, filling in different things on your sheet like a small straight, a large straight, a yahtzee, a full house, et cetera. You could even play snakes and ladders. There are lots of fun dice games.
As an alternative appetizer, you could do a white soup like potato soup or cauliflower soup with cream. That would be the base, and then you can dot.it with some pieces of steak or something that’s black, in the shape of a dice, floating on top of the soup. You could even use croutons.
You could also make a square pizza. Make the pizza base at home, and then lay out your toppings. Maybe put the cheese layer first, and then lay out dark toppings in the shape of a dice – mushrooms or pieces of meat like steak, salami, or pepperoni slices. Put them in a five or a six shape to make it look like a pizza dice.
You can cut out some pieces of black card in a circle shape and put them on the table. Of course, you can wear black and white. One of you can wear a black skirt and a white top. And the other can wear totally black – maybe the guy has to wear mainly black. Just see what fun things you can think of.
Don’t be stressed about it. Just use your imagination, and have lots of fun. It doesn’t have to be perfect; it just has to suggest a dice theme. Have fun playing dice games. Have fun thinking of some food you can do together, and then enjoy your date night. That was just a quick fun episode, but I hope it inspired you, and I hope you can have a good date night with your hubby soon.
