Canapes is a European snack that most people consume daily. In our country, canapés are not yet so popular and are used mostly at holidays or special events, for example, canapés can be prepared for children for their birthdays. Canapés can be made from meat, fish, vegetables, cheese, or using fruits and sweets.
Fruit canapes are a dish that will not only decorate a children's party, but will also become delicious snack. It will not be difficult for adults or children to form such canapés. Depending on the age of the guests, I advise you to use different bases, for example, for small children it is better to use small short plastic or wooden sticks and string fruit on them, for those who are older it is better to take long wooden skewers. It won’t be difficult to find both skewers and toothpicks in the nearest supermarket.
Canapes for children can be made from various fruits, and you can also add marshmallows, nuts, jelly, marmalade and fill them with fruit syrup, chocolate, caramel or glaze. You can combine both the same and different fruits on one skewer.
"Grape Caterpillar"
Ingredients:
- Grapes - 200 g
- Whipped cream - 20 g
- Hard chocolate - 10 g
Cooking method:
- Wash and dry the grapes.
- Remove from the branch and thread onto skewers.
- Decorate with cream and chocolate.
"Tailed Peacock"
Ingredients:
- Mandarin – 2 pcs.
- Banana – 2 pcs.
- Grapes – 200 g
- Blueberries – 100 g
- Raspberries 70 g
- Blackberries – 70 g
Cooking method:
- Peel the tangerine and banana.
- Place tangerine in slices on a plate.
- Cut the banana into slices and add to the tangerines.
- Wash and separate grapes, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries from the branches and tails.
- Thread fruit onto skewers in the following order: grapes, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, grapes.
- Place tangerines and bananas on top of the canapes.
- Place a pear in the middle.
- Make paws from tangerines or zest. The eyes can be cut out or made from blackberries.
Canapes “Fruit Delight”
Ingredients:
- Apple – 1 pc.
- Orange – 1 pc.
- Banana – 1 pc.
- Kiwi – 2 pcs.
- Strawberries - 100 g
Cooking method:
- Wash the strawberries and cut them.
- Peel the kiwis and kiwis, cut into pieces.
- Peel the orange and apple and cut into cubes.
- String in this order: apple, orange, banana, kiwi, strawberry.
Friendly penguins
Ingredients for 10 penguins for canapés for children
- 20 pitted olives,
- 2 carrots,
- 125 g cream cheese,
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder,
- salt and black pepper.
Step-by-step recipe for making canapés for children:
Step 1 Drain the olives and dry them well. Sort into large and small. Peel the carrots and cut into thin slices. Mix cream cheese With garlic powder, salt and pepper to taste.
Step 2 Using a sharp knife, cut out a small triangle on each carrot slice and set aside for later use. Make a neat straight cut in each large olive, being careful not to cut the inside on the other side of the cut. Fill every olive a small amount cream cheese, using a spoon or using pastry bag. Clean off any excess cheese.
Step 3 Place the olive decoys on a toothpick and pin each one onto a different carrot slice. To make the head, make a small slit in the smaller olive, just large enough to insert the carrot triangles that will turn into penguin noses. Place each head on a toothpick above the body.
Note
- Once we've finished creating our friendly army of cheese stuffed penguins, we can assemble them and set them on a platter or platters. We can make them in advance and store them in the refrigerator before serving them to guests, taking care to keep them balanced during storage.
- The cheese filling can be varied according to everyone’s taste, and even spicy spices can be added.
Canapé "Ladybug"
Ingredients:
- 60 gr. cream cheese
- 2 tablespoons sour cream
- Black food coloring
- 1/2 tsp. chopped green onions
- Garlic - 2 cloves, finely grated
- 0.5 tsp chopped fresh parsley
- Salt to taste
- 18 crackers
- 9 cherry tomatoes, divided into 4 equal wedges
- 18 large ripe olives seedless
- Fresh green onions- 1 bunch
Preparation:
- In a small bowl, beat cream cheese and sour cream until homogeneous mass. Set aside 1 tablespoon of this mixture and add to it food coloring. Place in a small plastic bag and set aside.
- Add onion, garlic, salt and parsley to remaining cream cheese mixture. Spread on crackers. Using two cherry tomato slices, create two ladybug wings on a cracker with cheese.
- Use olives for the head. Trim one side of the olives so that it fits well and place it on the wings. Insert the two ends of the bow into the olive heads to create the effect of antennae. Use the tinted cream cheese mixture to create distinctive spots on the wings. Yield: 3 dozen.
Canapés on skewers for children “Fly agaric”
Ingredients:
- Cherry tomatoes
- Quail eggs
- curly parsley
- Mayonnaise
Preparation:
Boil quail eggs, peel and cut off the bottom cap (This will be the base of the fly agaric). Cut the cherry tomatoes in half and remove the seeds and pulp. First thread the egg onto a skewer, then the tomato mushroom cap. Decorate the canapes with sprigs of curly parsley and make white dots on the tomatoes with mayonnaise.
Canapes on skewers with salmon and egg
Ingredients:
- Lightly salted salmon
- Boiled quail eggs
- Fresh cucumbers
Preparation:
First place pieces of lightly salted salmon on the cucumber mugs, and half an egg on top. Pierce the “pyramid” with a skewer and serve.
Canapes on skewers with fetta and vegetables
Ingredients:
- Fetta cheese
- cucumbers
- Black olives
- Cherry tomatoes red and yellow
Preparation:
Place the ingredients on a skewer in the following order: half a tomato, an olive, a cucumber slice and a cube of fetta cheese.
"Fruit skewers"
You will need:
- For red color - 1/2 seedless watermelon, peeled and chopped, with slices 1 cm thick.
- For yellow-white - 1/2 melon, seeded and cut into 1 cm wide slices.
- For green - fruits with green pulp: mango, kiwi or lime, peeled and cut into 1 cm thick.
- Bamboo skewers
- Beautiful flat dish or tray
Step-by-step preparation:
- Cut watermelon shapes into flowers, hearts and stars using special tools for cutting canapés or cookie shapes. Repeat with melon and other fruits.
- Now you need to string the fruits onto skewers, alternating contrasting colors between each other.
- Ready-made fruit canapés for children will also appeal to adults, because no one is alien to beauty...
Fruit and cheese canapes
When my mother advised me to make canapés with fruit according to this recipe, I didn’t even listen to her. For some reason, that combination made me distrustful; it seemed to me that the dish would turn out very strange. But, after thinking a little, I still decided to make a couple of things for testing. It turned out that this millet is not tasty, it is very, very tasty! Don't believe me? Then try cooking it yourself.
In order to prepare canipes with fruit and cheese you will need the following products:
- Lemon - 1 pc.
- Cheese -150 grams
- Marmalade – 200 grams
- Grapes optional.
- Wooden skewers or toothpicks
How to cook:
- Cut the cheese into small pieces
- Divide the lemon into 4 parts and also cut into small pieces.
- Do the same with marmalade - cut into small pieces.
- When the products are prepared, they are connected together and secured with a toothpick.
- The basis of our canapes will be cheese.
- You need to put a slice of lemon on the cheese.
- And on top is a piece of marmalade. If there are grapes, then a grape berry completes our dish. If you like olives, you can use them instead of grapes.
Fruit canapes for children “Santa Claus”
To prepare this dish you need to take the following products:
- 1 banana
- 200 grams strawberries
- Grapes (preferably green)
- Marshmallows are small
- And toothpicks to connect everything
How to cook:
- First you need to wash the fruit. Remove green leaves from strawberries.
- Peel the banana and cut into small slices.
- Well, connect everything on a toothpick in the following order:
- Grapes, banana, strawberry, marshmallow.
Fruit canapes for children “Gnome”
This time take the following products:
- 2-3 bananas
- Marshmallow
- Strawberry
- Toothpicks
Recipe:
- Wash the strawberries and remove the green part.
- Cut the banana into several pieces.
- Cut the marshmallow into several pieces, and then you can start joining.
- Place a piece of marshmallow on a plate, sticky side up.
- Place a banana on top of the marshmallow and another piece of marshmallow on top.
- Strawberry on top.
- Attach dried fruit eyes and a mouth.
Fruit canapes are healthy, beautiful, original, bright, tasty dish for a children's party or picnic. Fruit canapes for children can decorate any table. And the important thing is that it is prepared quickly and simply. In addition, it is advisable to involve children in preparing the dish: older children can wash the berries, cut fruits, and younger children can thread them onto skewers.
Fruit canapes for children - how to prepare?
To prepare fruit canapes you will need berries, fruits, skewers (sticks for stringing). Sometimes used hard cheese, marmalade Fruits, of course, are selected to suit the children's tastes, but they should be different color. For example, kiwi, banana, nectarine, grapes, pear, apple, peach. To prevent fruits from darkening quickly, they need to be sprinkled lemon juice. This is especially true for apples and pears.
Before skewering, fruits and berries should be washed under running water, dried on a paper towel, peeled and seeds, cut into cubes or pieces. It is best to select fruits that do not cause allergies in children. When stringing fruit onto a skewer, we recommend alternating it with cheese or marmalade.
The finished fruit canapé can be topped with caramel, melted chocolate, honey, sprinkled with powdered sugar, cinnamon, and decorative sprinkles.
We bring to your attention fruit canapé recipes for children. Fruit canapes (photo).
1. Canapes “Sweet Rainbow” (with photo)
Peel the tangerine and divide into slices. Peel the pineapple and kiwi too and cut into cubes. Thread them onto a skewer along with grapes, strawberries, and raspberries. And if you place it according to the colors of the rainbow, it will turn out very beautiful.
2. Fruit canape “Pineapple boat” (with photo)
To prepare such a delicious dessert you need to put a half ring on a skewer canned pineapple as shown in the picture. This will be the sail of the boat. You can use a ring of ripe nectarine and banana as a deck.
3. Fruit canapé “Merry Strawberry” (with photo)
The banana needs to be peeled and cut into slices, 1.5-2 cm thick. To prevent it from darkening, you need to sprinkle with lemon or orange juice. Place a fresh mint leaf on a skewer, then a medium-sized strawberry, and then a banana. Banana is used as the base of canapés. You can draw smiling faces on strawberries using cream.
4. Fruit canapé “Peacock” (with photo)
In order to form the body of a peacock, you can use a pear. Make the beak and paws from tangerine peels, and the eyes from pieces of blackberries. For the tail, use fruit skewers. You can string tangerine slices, banana slices, grapes, blackberries, blueberries and raspberries.
5. Canapes “Fruit in chocolate”
To prepare, you will need any fruit and melted chocolate. Dip pieces of fruit into melted chocolate, let the glaze harden and thread the fruit onto a skewer. For variety, you can chop a piece of biscuit or fruit without glaze. Another option: make chocolate and white glaze.
6. Canapes with marmalade
To prepare canapes you will need: any fruit, small round cookies, marmalade, chocolate. Prepare all the ingredients and thread them onto skewers one by one.
And finally, we suggest decorating festive table dessert like fruit in jelly. Thanks to the variety of ingredients, this dish will definitely not leave children indifferent. But to prepare such a dish you need to have a lot of free time, because each layer must have time to harden.
These are the fruit canape recipes for children that we offer you. If you have your favorite signature dessert, write in the comments.
Buffet snacks are becoming more and more popular every day, and this is not surprising, because thanks to these small sandwiches you can quickly feed guests, for example, during an outdoor buffet, or at an office buffet. You can prepare canapés in advance - they store well in the refrigerator, as regular sandwiches, and options various fillings and the combinations of ingredients are simply countless.
If you are going to arrange buffet table at home, in the office, or outdoors, then canapé recipes with photos will come in handy. And you can complement the buffet table with, and.
Canapes with shrimp skewers
I wrote how to prepare delicious canapés on skewers for a festive table with shrimp, cheese and cherry tomatoes.
Canapes with red fish on skewers
You can see how to prepare delicious canapés on skewers for a festive table with red fish.
Canapes with cheese and olives on skewers
Olives go well with hard cheese and lemon, and together they form great snack: both tasty and beautiful. These canapés can be served as an addition to an aperitif: they are ideal with cognac, brandy or rum. For a buffet event this is delicious canapes on skewers - a real find. Look at the recipe with photos.
Canapes “Ladybugs” with salmon
Ingredients: White bread, butter, cherry tomatoes, pitted black olives, lightly salted salmon, parsley.
Preparation: Cut white bread into portioned pieces, and spread butter. Place a piece of fish on top. Take tomatoes and cut them in half. Cut each half halfway until you get ladybug wings.
Make the head of a ladybug using an olive cut in half. Make spots for the ladybug using finely chopped pieces of olives. Put ladybugs on red fish and garnish with a sprig of parsley!
Canapes “Ladybugs” with caviar
Ingredients: White bread, butter, cherry tomatoes, black pitted olives, red caviar, parsley.
Preparation: Cut white bread into portions and spread with butter. Place a mound of red caviar on top. Take tomatoes and cut them in half. Cut each half halfway until you get ladybug wings.
Make the head of a ladybug using an olive, cut in half.. Make spots for the ladybug using finely chopped pieces of olives. Place the ladybugs on the red fish and garnish with a sprig of parsley!
Ingredients:
- black bread
- fresh lard with a slot
- pickles
- garlic
Preparation:
Cut the bread into portions and dry in the oven.
Place a slice of lard on each piece of bread, then a slice of cucumber and a slice of garlic.
We cut off the canapés with a skewer or toothpick and decorate with herbs.
How to make sandwiches - pineapple canapés read
Ingredients:
- cured salami sausage
- fresh cucumber
- green salad
- black bread
Preparation:
Cut the bread into portions and place a lettuce leaf on each piece.
Cut the cucumbers diagonally or lengthwise to create long slices.
Cut the sausage into thin pieces.
We take a slice of cucumber, fold it like an accordion, on top is a piece of sausage folded in half, then again cucumber and sausage.
We pierce this entire structure with a skewer and attach it to a piece of bread with salad.
Canapes "Polyanka" on crackers
Ingredients: Unsweetened crackers, butter, lightly salted salmon or trout, cherry tomatoes, black olives, parsley.
Preparation:
Grease the cracker cookies with butter and place a piece of red fish on top.
Ladybugs: small tomatoes, cut in half and cut, this is the back, and the head is made of olives. It is cut into 4 parts lengthwise and crosswise.
Black dots are finely chopped black olives. Decorate the canapes with parsley.
Ingredients:
- red lightly salted fish(salmon or trout)
- White bread
- butter
- lemon
- dill for decoration
Preparation:
Cut the white bread into portion triangles and spread each with butter.
Top with a piece of red fish and half a lemon wedge.
Decorate the canapes with dill.
Ingredients:
- herring fillet in oil
- sandwich cheese Hochland in records
- green olives
- red bell pepper
- black bread
- dill greens
Preparation:
Place sandwich cheese on black bread.
Then we put the ingredients on a skewer in the following order: a piece of bell pepper, a green olive, a herring fillet.
We pierce our canapés with a skewer and decorate with finely chopped dill.
Canapes with anchovies and tomato
Ingredients:
- anchovy fillet
- tomatoes
- boiled eggs
- black bread
- parsley
Preparation:
Cut the black bread into pieces and cut out circles with a glass or cookie cutters.
Fry the bread in a frying pan with a small amount of vegetable oil.
When the bread has cooled, lay out the ingredients in the following order: a circle of tomato, a sprig of parsley, a circle of egg, and anchovy fillet.
Ingredients: Puff unsweetened crackers, goat cheese, sun-dried tomatoes, cucumber, dill.
Preparation: Spread goat cheese on crackers, top with a cucumber slice and another layer of cheese. Finely chop the sun-dried tomatoes and sprinkle on top of the canapes, garnishing with a sprig of dill.
Ingredients: Baguette, eggplant, boiled chicken fillet, tomatoes, mayonnaise, lettuce.
Preparation: Cut the eggplants into slices and fry in vegetable oil before golden color. Place eggplant on the baguette slices first, then lettuce, a piece of chicken, mayonnaise, and tomato on top.
Ingredients: Saltine crackers, bacon, processed soft cheese, greens, pickled cucumbers.
Preparation: Spread the crackers with cream cheese and place a slice of bacon on top, folding it into a rosette. Decorate the canapes with slices of pickled cucumbers and sprinkle with herbs.
Festive canapés with caviar for the New Year
Ingredients: White bread, butter, eggs, red caviar, parsley.
Preparation: Remove the yolks from the eggs and cut the whites into rings 6-7 mm thick. Grind the yolks with butter. Cut from white bread circles and spread them with yolk butter. Place a circle of squirrel on each canapé and fill with red caviar. Decorate the canapes with parsley leaves.
Ingredients: Salted crackers, soft Philadelphia or Buko cheese, black caviar, cucumber, lightly salted salmon, dill.
Preparation: Spread cheese on crackers and place three slices of cucumber on top. Roll up a piece of fish and place it on the cucumbers. Place black caviar on the fish and decorate the canapes with a sprig of dill.
Ingredients: Pancakes, lightly salted salmon, soft Philadelphia or Buko cheese, parsley.
Preparation: Spread cheese on the pancakes and place a piece of salmon on top, garnishing the canapé with a sprig of parsley. Simple and delicious!
Ingredients: Brown bread with Borodinsky seeds, tomatoes, hard cheese, mayonnaise, green basil(can be replaced with any other herb).
Preparation: Cut the bread into portions. Place a slice of cheese on each piece of bread, then a tomato, and mayonnaise on top. Sprinkle the canapes with torn green basil leaves.
Ingredients: White bread, hot salami, boiled eggs, tomato, cucumber.
Preparation: We cut the white bread into small pieces, lay out a rosette (as in the picture), three pieces of sausage for each piece of bread, decorate with a circle of eggs, slices of tomatoes and cucumbers.
Ingredients: Cucumber, large grapes, hard cheese, crab sticks
Preparation: Cut the cucumber into thin slices, lay out a piece crab stick, a piece of cheese, half a grape, and fix everything with a skewer.
Ingredients: White bread, canned tuna, pickle, onion, bell pepper, parsley.
Preparation: First place slices of pickled cucumber on slices of white bread, then tuna (don't forget to drain the oil first). Decorate the canapes with a feather of white onion, a slice of bell pepper, and a sprig of parsley.
Ingredients: Rye bread, tomatoes, sandwich cheese, green onions.
Preparation: Cut the bread into pieces and dry in the oven. When cool, spread each piece with homemade mayonnaise, top with a slice of tomato, sandwich cheese, and sprinkle with green onions.
Ingredients: White bread, fresh figs, boiled pork, cheese paste
Preparation: Let's see how to prepare cheese paste for canapés. Cut the bread into portions and spread cheese spread, lay out a piece of boiled pork, and decorate it with a slice of fig on top.
Ingredients: White bread, butter, mozzarella cheese, cold smoked salmon or salmon, green onions.
Preparation: Cut the bread into portions, spread with butter, and fry in a frying pan on both sides. When the bread has cooled, place a piece of mozzarella, top with salmon, and garnish the canapes with green onions.
Ingredients: White bread, butter, ripe avocado, onions, egg, green olives.
Preparation: Cut the bread into portions, spread with butter, and fry in a frying pan on both sides. Peel the avocado, mash with a fork, and add finely chopped onion. Spread avocado paste on toasted bread, place a circle of egg on top, green olive, and fix the canapes with a toothpick or skewer.
Canapes with omelette and cucumber
Ingredients: Cucumbers, eggs, milk, flour, mint
Preparation: First, prepare an omelette based on 2 eggs: beat the eggs with a whisk, add 20 ml. milk, and 1 tsp. flour. Pour into a frying pan in a thin layer and fry under the lid until done. There is no need to turn the omelet. Cut our omelette into portions and place on cucumber slices, garnishing everything with mint leaves.
Ingredients: White bread, boiled tongue, gherkins, cured sausage
Preparation: Cut the white bread into portions, first lay out the tongue pieces, then the gherkins cut lengthwise into the cucumbers, and finally prick the sausage onto a toothpick in the shape of a sail.
Vegetable rolls with cream cheese
Ingredients: K zucchini, bell pepper, arugula salad, dill, green onions, Buko cream cheese
Preparation: Using a potato peeler, slice the zucchini lengthwise into thin slices. On each plate put a little cheese, a leaf of arugula, a sprig of dill, and a slice of bell pepper. Roll into a roll and secure with green onion feathers, tying each roll.
Ingredients: Cured salami sausage, fresh cucumber, feta cheese
Preparation: First, place a slice of sausage on a skewer or toothpick, then slices of cucumber and Feta cheese. We pierce the sausage a second time to secure the canape.
Ingredients: Fresh cucumbers, tails king prawns, dill and parsley, cream cheese, pitted olives
Preparation: Cut the cucumbers into thin slices lengthwise, pre-boil the shrimp, and peel them if necessary. Spread each cucumber slice with cream cheese, put an olive inside, roll it up and secure with a skewer. Decorate the top with shrimp, as in the picture. These canapés can be served with soy sauce or curry.
Canapes with chicken and tongue
Ingredients: Boiled chicken fillet, boiled tongue, homemade mayonnaise, sandwich Rye bread, Not spicy mustard, or mustard oil, greens for decoration.
Preparation: Finely chop the chicken fillet and tongue into strips and mix with mayonnaise. Cut square or round slices from the bread and spread mustard on them. Post meat filling top with bread and garnish with herbs.
Canapes on bagels with goat cheese
Ingredients: Small bagels, goat cheese, quail eggs, oregano, red paprika.
Preparation: Place a piece in each bagel goat cheese, and half of the hard-boiled quail egg, garnish with an oregano leaf, and sprinkle with red paprika.
Ingredients: White sandwich bread, butter, lightly salted salmon, radishes, eggs, green onions and dill for decoration.
Preparation: Spread the bread with butter and lay out the salmon slices. We make two layers of these. We also grease the top with oil. We cut everything into small squares and decorate the top with a slice of radish, eggs, and herbs as in the picture.
Ingredients: Feta cheese in brine (which holds its shape and does not fall apart), cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, white bread, bell pepper, olive oil, Mediterranean spices.
Preparation: Cut white bread into squares and pour over olive oil, sprinkle with spices, and dry in the oven. First we string a slice of bell pepper onto a wooden skewer, then a cracker, a cucumber, a piece of feta, and a tomato.
Ingredients: Potatoes, fresh or ham, pitted olives, Parma ham, mozzarella cheese, green basil leaves.
Preparation: Cut the potatoes into slices, add salt, sprinkle with spices, and bake in the oven until cooked. Make half of the canapés with potatoes, pesto, Parma ham and olives. The second half with potatoes, sun-dried tomatoes, mozzarella and basil.
Canapes with Feta cheese and vegetables
Ingredients: Fetta cheese in brine (so that there are whole cubes), cherry tomatoes, fresh cucumbers, pitted black olives.
Preparation: First put a tomato on a skewer, then a slice of cucumber, then a piece of olive, and finally a cube of fetta cheese.
Ingredients: Cooked smoked sausage type "Cervelat", sweet mustard, pickled cucumbers, white bread.
Preparation: Cut white bread into portioned squares, or squeeze out circles with a mold. Spread mustard on each piece, put a piece of sausage on top, and prick a whole pickled cucumber.
Ingredients: Lightly salted salmon, sesame seeds, pickled cucumbers, pitted black olives.
Preparation: Cut the salmon into small pieces and roll each piece in sesame seeds. Cut the pickled cucumbers into strips lengthwise and cut the olives into rings. Place all the ingredients on a skewer as shown in the picture.
Ingredients: tartlets or white bread, peeled large shrimp, cherry tomatoes, lemon
Preparation: Fry shrimp in vegetable oil with Italian herbs. Cut the cherry tomatoes into 4 pieces each and cut the lemon into slices. Assemble the canapés onto a skewer in the order shown in the picture.
Canapes on skewers with Cheddar cheese
Ingredients: Cheddar cheese, red and yellow bell peppers, cucumber, blue Crimean onion, .
Preparation: Cut the cheddar into cubes, bell pepper into small wide strips, and cucumber into medium-thick slices. Thread, alternating, vegetables and cheese onto wooden skewers. Serve on the buffet table along with Tzatziki sauce.
Ingredients: unsweetened crackers or bread, pickles, green onions, mayonnaise, lemon juice
Preparation: For the sauce, mix pickled cucumbers and a few green onions into a homogeneous paste in a blender, add mayonnaise and lemon juice. Spread paste on crackers and place on top lightly salted salmon. Garnish the canapes with green onions.
Ingredients: unsweetened crackers or white bread, red caviar, butter.
Preparation: Spread crackers or white bread with butter and place red caviar on top. It turns out simple and tasteful.
Ingredients: unsweetened crackers or white bread, butter, ham, small gherkins
Preparation: Butter bread or crackers and place slices of ham on top. Make four slits lengthwise on the gherkins, not all the way through, and lay each one out like a fan on the ham. To hold better, you can fasten it with a skewer.
Canapés on Caprese skewers
Colorful fruit canapés will be at home at any feast. Romantic dinner they will make it more refined and will delight the kids children's party, will help without special effort impress your colleagues with a spectacular mini buffet. They are interesting, varied, and allow you to get creative from the heart with taste and form. In short, it wouldn’t hurt any housewife to master a couple of recipes for preparing fruit snacks on skewers. Believe me, they will come in handy more than once.
Fruit canapes are the highlight of the festive table
Install for sure exact time and the place where delicious baby sandwiches were born - and even more so to find out whose smart head guessed to string not only meat and cheese on a wooden skewer, but also fragrant fruits- is not possible now. According to linguists, the word “canapé” itself came to us from ancient Greece, where it sounded like “konops” and served to designate small insects - like a mosquito or mosquito. The Egyptians, followed by the Romans, adopted the Greek term, modified it to “conopeum” and began to call it beds with a net from uninvited blood-sucking guests. Over time, the word traveler moved from Latin to European languages and firmly settled in French, for some unknown reason no longer clinging to a canopy bed, but to a miniature sofa with a curved back. So what is next…
And then there are continuous secrets. Either the French remembered the original meaning of the term “canapé” and called the snack sandwiches “mosquitoes” for their small size. Perhaps the cook, with a particularly wild imagination, saw in the pieces of appetizing food piled up a resemblance to a favorite piece of furniture. Or maybe it's a matter of absorbing unusual snack It was most comfortable just on such sofas, leisurely sipping wine from a glass and conducting a leisurely dialogue with your interlocutor.
It’s still better to remove the pits from cherries when preparing canapés.
Whatever the situation, one thing is certain: the fun idea took root, gained popularity and gave rise to dozens of different, but invariably tasty culinary recipes. And there are at least five reasons for this:
- Fruit canapés are tasty, juicy and aromatic.
- If you don’t set out to create some absolutely incredible composition from a dozen different ingredients, you can prepare the delicacy in no time. For example, strawberry-banana “canapes” will be taken away from skillful housewife at most a quarter of an hour.
- Find the recipe fruit salad or a cake that would please every single guest is impossible. But out of half a dozen different options fruit sandwiches, even the most capricious picky person will find something suitable for himself.
- Canapés are universal. They will perfectly play the role of dessert at a family feast or buffet table, take pride of place on the children's table, and, on occasion, serve gourmet snack To strong drinks. Let's say to white wine“turrets” with tangerines, kiwis, and apricots are suitable; Melon and strawberries go with red. Sweet liqueurs are usually enjoyed with grapes and pears; cognac, in addition to the traditional slice of lemon, loves the company of apples and juicy peach, and the taste of champagne is perfectly complemented by pineapple and watermelon.
- Preparation fruit snack- pure creativity. You can not only use any fruits and berries you wish, but also feel free to combine them with other ingredients: chocolate, marshmallows, fondant, nuts, marmalade. Sometimes even ham and cheese are used. Complete creative freedom and no boundaries!
Traditionally, it is customary to serve 3-4 canapés with with different fillings. Moreover, it is advisable to calculate the total amount of snacks in advance so that there are at least 8 miniature sandwiches for each guest. Considering that canapes are a one-bite treat, they can fly off the plate in a few minutes, but no one should be left behind.
How to cut fruit beautifully
The easiest way out is to take a knife and simply chop the washed and peeled and pitted fruits into cubes or slices. Cheap and cheerful, but ineffective in terms of wasted time. And the beauty of future “canapes” will suffer, since not everyone will be able to adjust hand-cut pieces to one size, and slices of different sizes will greatly spoil appearance snacks.
The neater the pieces, the more impressive the result.
If you have a special spoon for slicing watermelon and melon in your kitchen, use it. Perfectly even multi-colored spheres on skewers always look impressive.
You can turn any large fruit with not too dense pulp into balls.
Using cookie cutters, you can turn fruit slices into shapes of any complexity.
A true masterpiece in miniature
If you are seriously passionate about the theme of canapés and are going to regularly treat guests and family with sweet “kebabs,” it won’t hurt to purchase special device for cutting berries and fruits into pieces. IN budget option It will be replaced by a regular egg slicer.
The slices will look identical
The most advanced cooks will come to the aid of a special syringe for canapés. Using it, successively cut pieces of fruit selected for the treat, press the piston, and the finished treat will appear on your plate. All that remains is to fasten it with a fancy skewer. The syringe can also easily handle pieces of biscuit, marshmallow, marmalade and other goodies if it occurs to you to add them to your creation.
Don't have a cooking syringe? Take a regular one, cutting off the top
Remember that fruit is a perishable product. They quickly give up juice, darken and lose their shape, so you need to prepare the delicacy shortly before serving, sprinkling the pieces with lemon juice for better preservation.
Step-by-step fruit canape recipes
So who are you going to treat? Business partners, old friends, relatives family holiday? Then pay attention to the recipes fruit canapés with cheese and ham. Unusual flavor combination will arouse interest and give your evening a slight touch of aristocracy.
For adults
With grapes and cheese
You will need:
- 100 g cheese;
- 100 g green or blue grapes(try to get a seedless variety).
Preparation:
Pairs perfectly with grapes durum varieties cheese: Gouda, Maasdam, Edam, Dutch, Parmesan. However, soft curd cheeses with mold - for example, Brie - will be in their place here. If you want, make a mix of two or three different varieties, shading their taste with halves walnut, almonds, strawberries, slices exotic mango or thin leaves of fresh tarragon.
The classic version of cheese and grape canpe is far from the only one
With melon and Parma ham
You will need:
- 0.5 kg melon;
- 200 g goat cheese;
- 100 g sliced Parma ham;
- 1 tbsp. l. olive oil;
- half a lemon;
- salt, pepper to taste.
Preparation:
- Cut the melon in half, remove the seeds, and cut the pulp into cubes or, using a special spoon, into balls.
In the absence of a spoon for cutting, a simple dessert one will do.
- Mix oil, juice of half a lemon, salt and pepper. Pour the marinade over the prepared melon pieces and leave them alone for a quarter of an hour to allow the pulp to soak.
The result will be better if you lightly whisk the mixture
- Cut the goat cheese to your liking.
If desired, sprinkle the cheese with pieces of finely chopped basil.
- In random order, thread pieces of melon and cheese, a slice of ham onto a skewer, and then put the canapes in the refrigerator.
The taste of the delicacy will be beyond praise
- The appetizer should be served chilled, with semi-dry red or white wine.
The combination of melon and Parma ham is considered classic and does not need any additions, but if you want to brighten the taste of the canapé, add basil leaves, arugula or pieces of kiwi pulp to the indicated ingredients. In addition, the melon itself can, on occasion, be easily “replaced” by a juicy pear.
With pear and Dor Blue cheese
You will need:
- 1–2 pears;
- 100 g Dor Blue cheese;
- 2 tbsp. l. finely chopped walnuts;
- a little olive oil;
- juice of half a lemon.
Preparation:
Lemon with marmalade and cheese
Here is an absolutely incredible but attractive combination:
- hard cheese;
- the same amount of marmalade;
- half a lemon.
Preparation:
This kind of appetizer usually doesn’t sit on a plate.
For children and older sweet tooths
But enough exotic! Let's talk about simpler recipes that don't contain such spicy food combinations. For example, what could be more traditional and tastier than strawberries and chocolate?
Bananas, strawberries and marshmallows covered in chocolate
You will need:
- banana;
- a handful of strawberries;
- colorful marshmallows;
- half a bar of dark chocolate.
Preparation:
- Peel the banana and cut into slices.
Sprinkle lemon juice on the banana to prevent it from browning.
- Wash the strawberries and remove the stems.
The berries must be the same size
- If the marshmallows are large, cut them into pieces the size of strawberries. Leave the small one as is.
Multi-colored marshmallows look festive
- Melt the chocolate in a water bath.
If you want to make the mixture less thick, add a spoon or two of milk to it.
- Place prepared pieces of fruit and marshmallows onto wooden sticks, pour over chocolate and let cool.
Canapes will appeal to both children and adults with a sweet tooth.
If the combination of marshmallows and chocolate seems too sweet, remove one of the sweet ingredients from the recipe or prepare two canapes with a sweetener to suit your taste.
No one will leave the holiday disappointed
Jelly skewers
You will need:
- a bag of grape jelly;
- a bag of strawberry jelly;
- a handful of grapes;
- a handful of strawberries;
- ice molds.
Preparation:
Fruit platter
You will need:
- apples;
- canned pineapple;
- kiwi;
- grape;
- strawberry;
- blueberry.
Preparation:
- Wash all the fruits. Peel the apples and remove the seeds. Cut the pulp into small pieces.
Look for sweet varieties of apples on the market, such as Kitayka, Medok, Belarusian apple
- Peel and cut the kiwi.
Treat your loved ones to a fragrant rainbow on a skewer
The fruits in the above recipe can be replaced with others without any damage to the taste. For example, use canned peaches instead of pineapple soft pear instead of an apple or raspberries instead of blueberries.
It’s also worth paying attention to the combinations:
- Banana, kiwi and tangerine. The fruits will need to be peeled, the banana and kiwi cut, the tangerine divided into slices, and then the whole fragrant company placed on wooden skewers in any order. All! Sweet, but shaded with a slight sourness, and therefore even more delicious dessert ready.
- Green grapes, kiwi and pineapple. Here the situation will be the opposite: sweet yellow tropical fruit will soften the sourness of its green neighbors. For those who cannot get a pineapple for the holiday, an orange will replace it.
- Banana, orange and pear.
- Strawberries and banana.
- Apple, pear, blood orange.
- Grapes and melon.
Fruit canapes for lunch - video
Options for serving fruit canapés in the photo
Canapés can be placed on long skewers 
Semicircular pieces of tangerines can be imagined as sails 
To prevent the skewers from remaining empty, you can offer guests pieces of fruit separately - let everyone assemble their own canapes 
The easiest option is to simply stack the canapes 
Even a minimum of ingredients can be used in interesting ways 
Unusual combination basil, watermelon and strawberries are perfectly secured with soft cheese 
The top of the canapé can be decorated with chocolate.
What else can you say about fruit canapes? A lot of. But why waste time on theory when you can start practicing immediately? New combinations and flavors are just waiting for you to discover them. Choose your favorite fruits and berries, shake out the kitchen cabinets looking for marshmallows, powdered sugar, chocolate and other goodies and go ahead - create a unique canapé according to a recipe invented by you personally!
How to use simple recipes cook original canapés for the holiday!
What holiday is complete without tasty treats and delights? We always go to please our loved ones and strive to cook something new every time. Everyone has heard of small sandwiches on skewers called canapés. They are easy to prepare, tasty and delight the eye with their original appearance.
IMPORTANT: Often guests are on the doorstep and we clutch our heads, complaining about what to cook for a quick fix. And here, more than ever, canapés will come to the rescue. A couple of slices of sausage, cheese, olives and tomatoes and you are ready to surprise your guests!
Recipes for festive canapés on skewers
Festive canapés differ from ordinary ones in the careful selection of ingredients and design. Ordinary wooden skewers will not work here. It is better to choose bright ones that match the style of the holiday and the design of the festive table.
- To prepare it, cut out a circle of white bread and thread it onto a skewer.
- Next, carefully cut the cucumber into thin ovals and roll it into a ring.
- You can put a little soft cheese inside and insert shrimp so that the entire structure is secured with a skewer.
Recipe 2. Canape Thai
- To prepare, cut the cheese into pieces, place parsley leaves on top,
- next piece fresh cucumber and we'll finish on top shrimp.
- We secure all this with a skewer and the light canape is ready.
- It will be very useful for breakfast or dinner!
- You see how simple and accessible everything is. All you need to do is pay a little attention to detail and you are practically a chef.
Children's holiday canapé recipes
Why do children love canapés so much? Yes, because they like everything new and bright. And also because active child can quickly snack on delicious small sandwiches, and without interrupting the general fun, frolic with friends again.
Recipe 1. Funny penguins
- Cut the rye bread into pieces - this will be the base.
- Cut a circle out of boiled carrots and remove a small section to create paws.
- Now you need to cut a pitted black olive to the middle so that it can open up a little, and fill it with soft cheese (Philadelphia or processed cheese). This olive will become the body.
One by one we assemble our penguin on a skewer. - Instead of a head, we take a whole olive with slits for the eyes. We will also fill them with cheese.
- And insert a carrot triangle into the slot for the nose. 15 minutes and your masterpiece is ready!
Recipe 2. Cheese sails canapés
- It is necessary to make preparations from black bread, cucumber and doctor's sausage in the shape of a boat.
- Next, we cut rectangles of cheese - these will be our sails.
- One rectangle should be slightly smaller than the other.
- We string all this beauty onto a skewer and complete the exhibition with a triangle of carrots, which will become the flag of a sailboat.
Voila, your kids are delighted!
Recipe 3. Biscuit delight
- This canape will delight your baby the most because it is made from a cake.
- Cut out a piece sponge cake with a side of 4 by 4 cm and insert a stick, top with raspberries and blueberries.
Your child has never tried anything like this before!
Canapes for the festive table with salmon
Salmon itself is not only delicious, but also incredibly useful product thanks to the content Omega 3 fatty acids.
And therefore, cooking salmon dishes is always a joy and anticipation of aesthetic pleasure.
Recipe 1. Canapes Atlantis
For this recipe we will need: salmon, soft Philadelphia cheese, herbs, egg, bread.
- Cut the bread base into a square and fry it in olive oil.
- Place a piece of lightly salted salmon on top.
- Mix the cheese with herbs and carefully place on top of the fish with a spoon.
- Thread it all onto a skewer and top it with a boiled egg.
Tasty and satisfying and very fast.
Recipe 2. Olive tenderness
We will need: any hard cheese, salmon, bread, herbs, green olive.
- Cut the bread into squares
- fry the teardrop in olive oil.
- Next, use the same pieces of salmon, cheese and
- We string everything onto a beautiful skewer.
- Decorate the top with an olive and a sprig of herbs.
Herring canapés for the festive table
Oh, this herring. Why do we love her? different types and we try to apply it to every holiday table. There are a lot of recipes using it. But today we'll figure it out best recipes canapés with this fish that will delight you and your family.
- For this sandwich you need to make star-shaped pieces of raw puff pastry,
- leaving a small indentation in the middle for the filling.
- The filling is prepared from pieces of sausage, grated cheese, green onions, mayonnaise and bacon.
- Place all this in the middle of the dough and bake in the oven for 20 minutes.
Thanks to the ease of preparation, canapés have long been affordable dish in every house. And if you haven’t tried it yet, then use our recipes and have fun!
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