What Is the Importance of Sweet Treats for Different Occasions?

Sweet Treat Platters to Suit Your Special Occasion

What Sweet Treat Platter Is Right For Your Next Special Occasion?

Different cultures celebrate special occasions in different ways. But there’s one way we collectively celebrate – with sweet treats. We’re talking everything from a box of chocolates on Valentine’s Day to a traditional wedding day cake.

Today we’re going to dive deep into how we celebrate with sweets and give you too many delicious examples of sweet treats for lunch boxes.

Celebrating Special Occasions With Sweet Treats For Lunch

Let’s look at different occasions and what lunch box sweet treats you should celebrate with.

Valentine’s Day

When you think of Valentine’s Day, does your mind instantly think of heart-shaped boxes of chocolate like mine? Chocolate and Valentine’s Day go together like peanut butter and jelly. But you know, chocolate comes in all different forms.

So for something different, why not celebrate this Valentine’s Day with a Brownie Platter filled with chocolate brownies? The small platter includes 12 mini brownies in three different flavours: Belgian chocolate and walnut, raspberry and white chocolate, and charred orange.

Another option is the Sweet Croissant Platter. The three croissant flavours are almond frangipane, Nutella with chocolate crumb and dark chocolate drizzle, and spiced apple with vanilla crumb and white chocolate drizzle. Are you drooling yet?

Visit our Valentine’s Day page closer to the special date for even more sweet treats for lunch boxes. We certainly like to celebrate in style.

Birthdays

It’s not a birthday celebration without a birthday cake, right? Let the birthday boy or girl have their moment in the spotlight as they make a wish and blow out the candle.

Celebrate your work wife or husband with our Vanilla Cupcake Platter (buttercream frosting included) or Doughnut Platter. You can still add a candle to both! Here’s a glimpse at the doughnut flavours they can indulge in:

Pink chocolate and yellow sprinkles with red fruit filling
Milk chocolate and hazelnut with dark chocolate filling
White chocolate and coconut with caramel filling
Besides work, we also have a range of sweet treats for a kid’s party. While our platters can cater for any party size, they also make perfect lunch box sweet treats or party favours. Besides cupcakes and doughnuts, our Chocolate Mousse Ice Cream Pop Platter is always a party hit, as is our Mixed Party Lolly Platter. It includes a combination of Oreos, Freddos and treats from The Natural Confectionery Company. Because does anyone do better lollies? We think not.

Check out our kid’s party collection for more inspiration (spoiler alert: there’s a fairy bread platter). While we celebrate with sweets, it’s also common to give sweets at a birthday party. Gifting one of these platters is an instant way to win someone’s heart.

Christmas

We know Christmas is all about savoury options like baked ham and fresh prawns. But personally, we’re partial to Christmas sweet treats. Sweets bring people together year-round and no occasion is more important than Christmas.

We think our housemade lamingtons are made to sit front and center on the Christmas table. They come in multiple colours/flavours like pink, yellow, green and traditional brown (chocolate). They’re almost too pretty to eat.

Every year we also create limited-edition sweet treats for Christmas. This includes Christmas brownies, Christmas cupcakes, individual pavlovas and summer berry trifles, and fruit mince tarts. Let us help you tick one thing off that never-ending Christmas to-do list.

Festivals

Speaking of festivities like Christmas, cultures around the world use sweets to celebrate different festivals. For example, people distribute traditional sweets during Diwali to commemorate the occasion. Celebrating with sweets is said to bring the person good luck, prosperity and happiness.

In some cultures, people also offer sweets to the gods during religious ceremonies as a symbol of their devotion. In return, they might get a sweet as a blessing from the gods. Ganesh Chaturthi is an annual Hindu festival where sweets are served to gods as Prasad. Then people will gift modak laddu, which is Lord Ganesh’s favourite sweet dish. Modak is a sweet dumpling made with milk, sugar and cardamom.

Easter

Easter – the Easter bunny’s time to shine as we celebrate by eating our body weight in chocolate Easter eggs. If you have an Easter event, our platters make catering a breeze. Pastel colours are typically associated with Easter, so our Sweet Time Party Platter is perfect. It includes brownie and buttercream cake pops, as well as pink chocolate doughnuts with yellow sprinkles and red fruit filling.

Another option is the Sweet Tart Platter. We pair white chocolate, lemon curd and Swiss meringue tarts with raspberry mousse tarts. Check out our Easter page closer to Easter for even more treats. Trust us, you’re going to want to bookmark the page. We go all out!

Weddings

Just like birthday parties are incomplete without cake, so are weddings. The cutting of the wedding cake is an essential part of Western weddings. In other cultures, grooms and brides exchange sweets with each other or give them as wedding favours.

Today, while couples often keep the traditional cake, they’re also adding a unique dessert option. These might be stands filled with tarts or cupcakes, or a doughnut wall. Our platters would work for all three.

Anniversaries

How do you mark your wedding every year? With more sweets, of course. Show your love and appreciation for your husband or wife with some surprise sweet treats for lunch boxes. While an ample selection of platters is available, you also have the flexibility to craft a personalized assortment using individual treats.

Because you know what? Their anniversary is the one day of the year they shouldn’t have to share! Depending on their preferences, you can choose between individual sweet tarts, mini croissants, mini brownies and mini doughnuts.

So no matter the occasion, Catering Project has an extensive collection of sweet treats for lunch available. We also have delicious vegan options. Check out all our sweet treats available for delivery in Sydney and Melbourne to make your special someone’s day.

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ishan sharma 17/05/2026

Excellent food, nicely packed and arrived on time.. highly recommend.

T1nyPerson 11/05/2026

I brought the ALL DAY GRAZING PLATTER for MOTHERS DAY! Honestly, it was absolutely delicious, between Mum and myself we managed to almost finish it within 8 hrs. Highly recommended 👌 as this company are truly amazing, 🙌 without a doubt the prices are reasonable, the amount of food and variety with these platters are brilliant 👏. I couldn't have got mum a present any better than this!! Keep up the great work, as ill definitely be ordering from here again in the future.

Lucian Roban 23/04/2026

What the helly? Ordered 2 fruit platter for a funeral, says serves 3-5 people, the small one. Deceiving photo on website, they use the big platter for the small one as well. In the package i received like 1 orange, 1 kiwi, 1 grape vine and 1 passion fruit, That's max 5 dollars. for 52 dollars and plus 45 dollars delivery, PURE ROBBERY ! I fully regret buying it.

Cassidy H 30/03/2026

Amazing experience! Second time using the catering project for a work function- such gorgeous food and the service is TOP TIER Thankyou!

Elsis Morejon 27/03/2026

The plated sit down package was so delicious! CP looked after dietary needs of my guests, Chef finalised the plating in our kitchen, waiter was excellent and they cleaned up afterwards! It made our experience quite memorable. We host for our stakeholders every year. Always exceptional food. Thank you CP Team!

Andrew Lim 26/03/2026

For corporate or event catering in Sydney, CP offer reliable delivery, excellent presentation, and good dietary flexibility. Pricing sits on the higher end but the quality justifies it. Worth a call.

Gavin Jones 26/03/2026

In a world of generic party platters, this catering is a total game-changer. I recently used them for a gathering and was blown away by the balance of whimsy and high-end culinary execution. The hot cross buns were pillowy and perfectly spiced, but the real showstopper was the presentation—it felt less like a 'delivery' and more like a curated Easter garden on my table. If you want to actually enjoy your own party instead of sweating in the kitchen, this is the gold standard.

Wendy Smith 26/03/2026

Highly recommended - catering ALWAYS on time, even to Sydney CBD, hot insulated packs supplied for hot food. And always high quality. Treats are so special.

Christine Marsden 25/03/2026

Reliable, predictable and on time. You couldn't want more from a caterer. Especially as they also cater for dietary requirements perfectly.

Candice K CandiceK 25/03/2026

I’ve been to my fair share of office events where the highlight is… leaving early. Not this time. Catering Project Sydney completely raised the bar. The food was next-level—fresh, beautifully presented, and dangerously easy to keep going back for “just one more” (I lost count around five). And the service? Seamless. The team made everything feel effortless, like they’d quietly mastered the art of being everywhere at once without ever being intrusive. If this is office catering now, I suddenly have a lot more enthusiasm for work events.

Sandy Bruns 25/03/2026

We had a school reunion event and the catering Project boxes were perfect! We were able to put them out straight on the table without having to transfer them onto to our own platters, which made it so easy and they looked and tasted beautiful

Eva N 25/03/2026

Paulina Wade 25/03/2026

Delicious and well-presented food, and they have many options to choose from. The only issue is that they brought our order a little over an hour early. Since we work on a university campus, we were on the opposite side of campus and had to stop working early to get to the location of our meeting. Better early than late, though. Would recommend to anyone.

Pickle Patricia 14/03/2026

Food was absolutely delicious, service and delivery was great. Only thing important to note is the cost is huge for the amount of food you get. $600 for two sandwich platters, one kids ham and cheese platter, sushi and fruit platter. The quantity in each platter is quite small for what you pay. Just something to note if you wish to order!

Julian Lonsdale 17/08/2025

Catering Project is outstanding! Their service is super reliable, friendly, and professional. The team goes above and beyond to make every event seamless and help with getting things right and done at times with a vety short turn around time! Their catering options are excellent - delicious, beautifully presented, and perfectly tailored. I couldn’t recommend them more highly. Thanks Bianca!

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