One of the most beautiful and impressive dishes on a festive table or buffet table is nothing more than a canapé. Canapé meets different types, filling and execution, but it is always incredibly beautiful, tasty and elegant.
In this article, the News Portal “site” has prepared for you several options for preparing and decorating fruit canapés.
Fruit canapés will be appropriate on any festive table and buffet table: be it a children’s birthday, a wedding celebration, New Year, youth party or a regular meeting with friends or girlfriends.
Creating such an amazing dish is a little troublesome, but the result is worth it. Fruit canapes can become great snack with white or red wine, alcoholic cocktails, champagne or liqueurs. Fruit canapes will also look great next to a sweet dessert: cake, pie, pastries and ice cream.
So let's get started...
How to make fruit canapés?
To decorate the fruit canapes, you can use long wooden kebab skewers or short multi-colored plastic skewers. Some craftsmen even manage to use ordinary toothpicks as the basis for canapés. In a word, the choice is yours.
Choosing the length of a skewer for thick canapés will depend on what fruit you will use and what company your dish is intended for. If you are planning a large company, then you should give preference to long wooden skewers, because they can accommodate more fruit. If the holiday is for children, then it is better, on the contrary, to arrange canapés on short plastic skewers, because small child it will be much easier to enjoy with a short skewer delicious fruits.
One of the most impressive options for decorating fruit canapés can be considered a fruit barbecue.
Fruit canapes “Fruit BBQ”
To make it you will need:
- large watermelon;
- wooden kebab sticks;
- celery;
- assorted fruits and berries.
Manufacturing:
The watermelon must be washed well and wiped dry. Then cut it in half. You can make fruit balls and squares from watermelon pulp to create canapés.
At the bottom of the watermelon, make three small holes into which you need to stick celery stalks - these will be the legs.
Then insert wooden sticks into the half of the watermelon (see photo) - this will be the fruit barbecue grill.
Place berries and fruits inside the empty watermelon, and place them on the grill itself fruit canapes.
This original design Fruit canapés will not leave any guest indifferent.
Fruit canapes "Rainbow"
“Every hunter wants to know where the pheasant is sitting!” - everyone knows this funny little rhyme, which is an excellent reminder of the order in which the colors are in the rainbow. Use this feature in the design of fruit canapés.
Select fruits by color and string them onto a skewer in the order described by the famous rhyme. Incredibly colorful and bright dish you will be guaranteed.
Fruit canapes "Santa Claus"
If you are preparing a holiday New Year's table, then a Santa Claus headdress can be an excellent option for decorating a fruit canape.
To create such a fruit canapé you will need:
- bananas;
- white grapes;
- strawberry;
- airy marshmallows;
- toothpicks or short skewers.
With these fruit canapés you can decorate any cold snack and desserts.
Fruit canapé “Figurnoe”
If you have a variety of cookie cutters available, you can create shaped pieces for fruit canapés in the same way.
Watermelon, melon, pineapple, apple and pear are great for creating stars, hearts, flowers and other shapes.
Fruit canapé “Jolly Caterpillars”
Children really like this type of fruit canapé.
Use long wooden skewers and grapes to create a long caterpillar. Eyes can be made from droplets sweet icing, yogurt and a piece of chocolate.
The news portal "site" wishes you not only delicious, but also useful holidays. After all, fruit canapés are not only delicious and surprising beautiful dish, but also very useful.
On any holiday, be it New Year or Birthday, you want to decorate beautifully festive table. Of course, salads and various cold appetizers will give a festive look and whet your appetite. But if, in addition to this, you have patience and a variety of fruits, then you can make truly beautiful masterpieces on the holiday table. And the main thing that will attract the attention of guests and quickly go for drinks is, of course, fruit canapés.
This simple dish consists of small sandwiches made from various ingredients, which are attached to toothpicks or food skewers. You can put them whole in your mouth. The remarkable thing is that you can use almost any product to create a beautiful composition. And thanks to its small size, you can use delicacies.
Yes, if you do canapes for children's birthday, then the main ingredient can be fruit. And if you’re just decorating a holiday table, you can use all sorts of options, and your imagination. Combining fruit and vegetable snacks, neatly arranged on a saucer, with bacon bits. As an example, we can get an option like in the photo below...
Photo 1. A simple version of canapés for the festive table
The most important thing is the combination of products. Made for sandwiches various sauces and pastes to achieve original taste. If you have the ingredients, making canapés is quite simple. It does not take a lot of time.
Below, in the photographs you can see how to colorfully decorate a table using such mini sandwiches. The design of the skewers is of no small importance, especially if the canapés are intended for children's party. They can be purchased at almost any grocery store. They different forms, and even in the form of figures. This will whet the children's appetite and excitement. The holiday will become more interesting!
A bright composition of various fruits will decorate a children's party, romantic dinner, a small buffet at work. Here you can use your creative imagination, but as an example I will give the recipe below.
Ingredients:
- 2-3 pieces of watermelon (or Victoria).
- 1 piece of fresh kiwi.
- 1 piece of tangerine.
- 1 piece of ripe banana.
- 1 sprig each of green and black grapes.
Cooking process
The watermelon pulp must be carefully cut into small cubes. The downside is that the berry is only available in August. But you can do without this ingredient. The taste of the canapes will remain pleasant and refreshing.
Kiwi adds sourness to mini sandwiches. It is recommended to buy fruit individually, as the packaging may be of poor quality. If the fruit turns out to be unripe, then it needs to be kept in a warm place for a couple of days. For canapés, kiwi must be peeled, cut into thin slices, and then divided in half, as shown in the image below.
Cutting kiwi
Peel the tangerine, carefully separate all the segments of the fruit, and then cut them into several pieces, the size of which should approximately correspond to watermelon cubes and kiwi pieces. It is recommended to remove the seeds.
Cooking tangerines using toothpicks or skewers
Banana is rich in vitamins and is filling tropical fruit, so it must be in a small sandwich. Ripe fruit should have a bright yellow color. If the banana is unripe, then it is not recommended to eat it, but wait a while for it to ripen. To use it in canapés, you need to peel the fruit and cut it into slices of about 0.5 cm.
Cutting banana into slices
When all the ingredients are prepared, they need to be placed on skewers or long toothpicks. First of all, it is inserted Green grapes, then pieces of tangerine, then green grapes, then banana slices, kiwi slices, and finally a cube of watermelon pulp.
Place fruit canapes on a skewer
The colorful composition is laid out on a flat plate. You need to place pieces of fruit around the edges, as some people have their own preferences for ingredients.
The recipe is quite simple, so anyone can prepare these mini sandwiches. Due to their refreshing and aromatic taste, they are recommended to be served in summer time. Also, fruit canapes will decorate any table.
In a similar way, you can make canapes from marmalade, combined with orange slices. You can put it on plastic skewers or toothpicks.
Another option is to pour melted chocolate over the Victoria berries. It turns out very tasty and the kids will love it!
Canapes for children's birthday
For a successful children's party, it needs to be supplemented with French small sandwiches. Children really like this snack, which has all the colors of the rainbow. Of no small importance are colorful and interesting skewers that will interest young children.
It is very important to use neutral ingredients that do not cause allergic reaction in children.
There are many canapé recipes for children's parties. Below we will look at one of them.
To prepare one serving you will need:
- 1 piece of ripe pineapple.
- 1 piece strawberry.
- Marshmallow confectionery product.
- 3 grapes.
- 1 piece kiwi.
- A piece of pear.
- 1 tbsp coconut flakes.
- 2 tbsp puffed rice.
- Several bars of dark chocolate.
Cooking process
The first step is to cut off the top with the green tail of the pineapple. Then cut off a circle 2 cm thick. Using a thin and sharp knife, remove the peel.
By the way! Here great option serving pineapple:
Remove the seeds and cut out the core. After that, cut the pulp into even squares into 6 pieces and set them aside.
Wash the strawberries thoroughly under running water and cut off the stem. Place the berry on a skewer, and then a piece of pineapple. The first mini sandwich for children is ready.
Alternatively, you can place the treat on the following toothpicks:
For the second skewer you will need green and green grapes. But you can use one grape variety. Place them on a skewer, followed by a piece of pineapple.
For the third sandwich you will need marshmallows - pastry, which is whipped in water from gelatin and sugar syrup. Place the sweetness on a skewer, followed by a pineapple cube.
For those who don’t know, the composition is similar to Bon Pari candies.
Children really like marshmallow, so it can also be used in the fourth canapé. To do this, you need to put the confectionery product on a skewer, then a small piece of kiwi, and then another marshmallow.
To prepare the next mini sandwich, you need to first add a confectionery product, then a grape, then one orange slice, and finally a pineapple cube.
The serving ends with a canape with a piece of pear, a small circle of strawberry and a square of pineapple. Place all ingredients on a skewer one by one. The photo below shows another sequence. You can also make several different options...
To make the canapés even tastier, they need to be greased with melted chocolate and then sprinkled with puffed rice and coconut shavings.
This makes a portion for one child. The children will be very happy. It is not recommended to do more, since the guys will simply eat them in 5 minutes, which can negatively affect their health.
Recipe with cheese and sausage
These canapés are a little more difficult to make than regular sandwiches. But guests will like it, because it’s an excellent appetizer.
Ingredients:
- 6 pcs pitted olives.
- 6 pieces of salami sausage. You can use another raw smoked product.
- 6 slices of fresh cucumber.
- 6 squares of cheese.
- Greenery.
- Also prepare skewers or long toothpicks.
Cooking process
Cut the salami into thin pieces. Then you need to fold the piece in half and place it on a skewer. The image below shows how this should be done.
You can improve the taste with greens. In our case we use parsley. Therefore, after the salami there is a leaf of the plant.
Rinse the cucumber thoroughly under running water and cut into thin slices. Place it in the same way as the sausage, that is, fold it in half.
This canapé is suitable for a buffet table, buffet. They are also a good and convenient snack for an adult meal.
Canapes with salmon and black bread on skewers
This is one of the most popular types mini sandwiches. Red fish is not only delicious snack, but also in combination with other ingredients it turns out very tasty. This canapé will decorate any table, especially in holidays. Also, salmon can be replaced with herring. It also turns out very tasty and satisfying. In fact, there are many cooking options, let's look at one of them.
Ingredients:
- 1 bunch of fresh dill.
- 0.5 pcs lemon.
- 120 grams of salted salmon.
- 2 slices of rye bread.
- 50 grams of cream cheese.
- 2 tbsp red caviar.
Cooking process
Rinse the greens thoroughly under running water. It’s great if it comes straight from the garden. Chop the dill.
The lemon also needs to be washed, cut into thin slices, and then divided into 4 parts. Thanks to this ingredient, the canapé acquires a slight sourness, which adds a piquant taste.
Salted salmon can be bought in a store, but it may be Bad quality Therefore, it is recommended to purchase fresh fish and salt it yourself. Cut the fillet into thin pieces
Stir chopped herbs into cream cheese.
Trim the edges of the rye bread and cut it into square pieces as shown in the image below.
To make a mini sandwich, spread sliced bread with cream cheese and dill.
Place pieces of salmon that match the size on top of the bread.
The next layer will be again cream cheese. They need to be lubricated salted fish. Then add more pieces of salmon, brushed with a mixture of herbs and cheese.
This sandwich needs to be cut into 4 parts.
The finishing layer is lemon and red caviar, which is laid out on each canape.
After this, place the resulting mini sandwiches on a long toothpick or skewer. Top with a small sprig of dill, as shown in the image below.
The photo shows a version of a ready-made salmon canape with red caviar and black bread
This appetizer is very tasty, so it quickly disappears from the table. The hostess is advised not to lay out all the sandwiches at once, but to bring them as they are consumed. Otherwise, the guests will immediately “destroy” them.
Canapes with ham cheese and cucumber
At almost any buffet table, you can see small sandwiches with ham on the table. The recipe is very simple, and the canapes turn out very tasty.
Ingredients:
- 150 grams of hard cheese.
- 150 grams of ham.
- 3 pieces of pickled cucumbers.
Cooking process
First of all you need to cut hard cheese small cubes of the same size.
Cut the ham into appropriate pieces. You should not save on this product, as a low-quality product can lead to stomach problems, as a result of which the festive mood will be ruined.
Cut the pickled cucumbers into small slices.
When all the ingredients are ready, you can begin to form the canapés. First of all, cheese cubes are strung, followed by cucumber slices, and the sandwich ends with ham. The image below shows what such a canape will look like.
If necessary, you can add 1-2 more ingredients. So experiment.
Video recipe: Herring canapes with black bread
As I noted above, mini sandwiches can be made from almost any product. The video below shows a recipe for making canapés called “ships”. The main ingredient is salted herring.
Photo of canapes. What we found on Google
Do you make canapés? Or haven’t had time to use such recipes yet?
Delicious treat- almost the most important part of a children's party. And to make the holiday a success, magical French sandwiches - canapés - will help with this. These “fun treats” can not only feed and amuse little guests, but also decorate the holiday table with all the colors of the rainbow.
Once upon a time, tiny canapé sandwiches weighing no more than 80 grams were invented by talented French chefs. And since then, canapés, thanks to their simplicity, sophistication and originality, have gained popularity all over the world. Now on every holiday table you can find canapés with or without skewers, which in skillful hands sometimes turn into magnificent works of culinary art.
For a fun children's party, canapés on skewers are a real find. Firstly, it is tasty, healthy and beautiful. Secondly, the kids won’t get their hands dirty when they feast on sandwiches on skewers. Thirdly, in such a beautiful “packaging” children will happily eat a not very favorite, but undoubtedly healthy product.
French sandwiches can be prepared for any children's party. It could be a birthday, a children's party, or a New Year's carnival.
Advice. The ingredients for canapés must be neutral and non-allergenic.
Preparing canapés
To prepare canapés, you need very little: skewers or toothpicks, a set of products and your limitless imagination. And if your children also join the process, then as a result of joyful joint creativity, simply unique culinary masterpieces will appear on the festive table.
In order to prepare beautiful, tasty and healthy canapés, there are a few simple tips:
Don't forget to prepare for the children's party.
Canapé decoration
It is very important not only to prepare a canapé, but also to decorate it beautifully. Unusually decorated sandwiches will add elegance and solemnity to the holiday table. Here are some tips for decorating canapés:
- Products cut into shapes will look very beautiful: stars, circles, diamonds, flowers and hearts. This can be done using vegetable cutters or special knives.
- It will be very beautiful if you string the ingredients onto skewers different color so that the canapés look bright and cheerful.
- If you have prepared a lot of different canapés, you can arrange them on large dish or a tray in rows: on one dish - meat sandwiches, on the second - fruit sandwiches, on the third - sweet desserts.
- You can use fruits or vegetables as a dish for canapés. For example, stick sandwiches on skewers into a zucchini. You will get a large hedgehog with needles from a canape.
- Trays with canapés are perfectly decorated with sprigs of greenery or flowers.
- Canapés can be a decoration for any dish.
- Canapés look beautiful in glasses or bowls.
Children's canapés on skewers: recipes
There are a great many canapé recipes. We want to offer you a selection of the simplest and interesting ideas making small sandwiches. So, we arm ourselves with skewers and food, take our boundless imagination as our assistants and begin to create.
Canapés from meat and fish products
Canapés with meat and fish ingredients must be on children's table. They are nutritious and will become good addition for the first and second courses. For such sandwiches, ham, beef, turkey fillet, chicken breast, sliced fish, vegetables, lettuce, cheese, herbs.
Ingredients: boiled pork or boiled meat, White bread, butter, green salad leaf, fresh cucumber, olives and dill.
Place boiled pork on sliced triangle and buttered white bread. Then put on top green salad, rolled longitudinal thin slice of cucumber and olive. Thread all this onto a skewer. The olive should crown the pyramid. Hungry after fun games kids will eat this yummy food in one minute.
Canapes "Boat"
Ingredients: ham or salmon, toasted bread, butter, cheese.
All products except cheese are cut into the shape of a boat. Place ham or salmon on buttered bread. Thread a slice of cheese with a skewer in two places in the shape of a sail and stick it into the prepared sandwich. Edible boats are very unusual and tasty!
Ingredients: toasted bread, red Bell pepper, pickle, cheese, greens.
Cut all products into cubes and string them onto skewers in any order. You will get very simple, bright and healthy sandwiches.
Ingredients: baked poultry, persimmon, prunes.
Thread slices of baked turkey or other poultry meat, persimmon slices and prunes onto a skewer. Juicy oriental food will become an exotic novelty for children, and they will appreciate it.
Advice. The products on the skewers must be combined with each other.
Vegetable canapés
Vegetable canapes should be in everyone children's menu. Useful vegetable canapés There are an endless number of options for combining vegetables. With the help of tomatoes, cucumbers and carrots, you can come up with interesting fantasy compositions.
Ingredients: Cherry tomatoes, quail eggs, sour cream, herbs.
Thread one onto a skewer quail egg and half a cherry (leg and cap of a fly agaric). Apply small dots of sour cream to the cap with a wooden toothpick. You will get little fly agarics that will amuse the children.
Ingredients: cherry tomatoes, feta cheese or processed cheese, basil leaves.
Alternately thread half a cherry, a piece of cheese, half a cherry and a basil leaf onto skewers. Very tasty!
Fruit and berry canapes
All children love fruits and berries. Multi-colored canapés made of strawberries, grapes, cherries and pieces of all kinds of fruits will surely please little guests.
Ingredients: banana, nectarine and canned pineapple.
On the “deck” of nectarine and banana rings, string a skewer with a half ring of canned pineapple on it in the shape of a sail.
These yellow boats will be another find for the holiday table.
Ingredients: any berries and fruits of all colors of the rainbow.
Thread pieces of fruit or whole berries onto skewers, arranging them according to the colors of the rainbow. A very tasty and appetizing delicacy!
Ingredients: chocolate and any fruit.
Dip pieces of fruit into melted chocolate and let chocolate glaze let it harden and thread the chocolate-covered fruit onto a skewer. These canapés will please even the most discerning little gourmet.
Canapés for those with a sweet tooth
Not a single children's party is complete without a sweet dessert. Canapés for those with a sweet tooth can include any sweets: marmalade, cookies, chocolate, marshmallows, marzipan, candied fruit, nuts and much more.
Ingredients: marmalade, small round cookies, chocolate and any fruit.
Thread small pieces of all ingredients onto skewers one by one. Little gourmands will undoubtedly love these “canapes”.
Ingredients: marshmallows and prunes in chocolate.
Alternately thread marshmallows, chocolate-covered prunes and marshmallows onto skewers. Extraordinarily simple and extraordinarily tasty!
Ingredients: marmalade and unsalted cheese
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The festive table is set after each event. Small sandwiches called canapés can be found on every table. This tiny sandwich originates in France. In simple words, the canape must fit completely into the mouth; if it needs to be bitten off several times, then this has common name- sandwich. Nowadays, this is an independent section of cooking; its complexity in specific cases is similar to that of a pastry chef.
Canapes for children's birthday
- Quite creative mashed potatoes, decorated with matching canapés. All together it looks like the image of a hedgehog. Place an olive on top of the skewer, the rest is up to your imagination.
- For this canapé you need: sausage, bread, cheese and butter. Cut the cheese so that the sails come out, the rest of the ingredients will be at the base of the ship. For a children's party, such sandwiches are just right.
- This canape can be called a masterpiece. All ingredients are at a reasonable price and are sold in any supermarket. You just need to process the olive and stuff it with cheese - this will be the belly of the penguin. Boiled carrots will be used for the beak and legs. This will be great fun for children.
- All you need is a cookie cutter and you can make these canapés without any problems. To keep the ingredients together, you can coat them with mayonnaise. Stack everything on top of each other and then make a heart shape. It will look quite unusual and romantic on the table.
Fruit canapes
- Option with grapes. Cheese slices need to be made cylindrical, anyone can help with this plastic bottle or other suitable part. Store-bought cheese, which is slightly rubbery, is best suited for such a canapé.
- The next type is with bacon, which has prunes inside.
- It's shrimp, but it contains mango. It was a marinade for them olive oil with red pepper. The mango is lightly toasted. You can use pumpkin instead - the color and sweetness are identical, only the exoticism will be lost.
- Delicious and simple snack, which includes ham and apple. The fruit is wrapped inward. Light enough and fresh snack, which would be appropriate for any celebration full of hearty food.
- Kiwi with cheese is a simple and beautiful combination.
- And now some final fruit recipes. These canapés will refresh your holiday table. It is better to cut the apples as close to the beginning as possible, otherwise they will darken; you can sprinkle them with lemon juice.
- If you combine beautiful skewers And canned pineapple, you will get a very bright canapé. The fruit will not darken, don’t worry about it.
Canapes for the festive table
- You can combine the bread with sausage and cucumber, or add a cube of cheese.
- A more complex sandwich: first you need to slice it thinly smoked sausage, and put the ring on horizontally. Add cheese or jacket potatoes and garnish with herbs on top.
- The herring recipe is simple but very popular. This snack has been an all-time classic. Previously, herring was served on the table in glassware, on top there was a layer of onions sprinkled with oil. This is less relevant now. In the photo you see very original recipes. Garnish the herring with figs or sprinkle with coriander. With black bread, the combination will be quite ordinary, it will resemble the French style.
- Now let's move on to another type of canapé - with rolls. In the photo you see fried ham with pate inside. We attach a bun to the bottom of the skewer.
5. Recipe again with bacon. Cheese is placed on top of the fried meat, which spreads over the meat during the frying process. It looks very appetizing, looks good with lettuce leaves. If you wish, you can add anything inside - from sesame seeds to various fruits. 
6. Simple, but original recipe- cheese in ham. Cut the meat so that you can wrap it around the cheese a couple of times. Garnish with a small sprig of parsley. 
7. The option is not simple, but original. The combination of cheese, raspberries, tomatoes and lavash makes an unusual canapé spicy taste. The ingredients are reminiscent of Italian canapes. 
8. First you need to boil it cabbage leaves, then wrap the ham in them. Be sure to coat the ham with mayonnaise, as the cabbage will be tasteless. 
10. The final recipe is also sweet. In the photo you can see the biscuit. It needs to be cut into small cubes and dipped in chocolate. This decision will be a great end to the holiday! 
11. Here's a few more to admire creative recipes. They are also quite unusual - each one will be very tasty. The last 2 canapés are considered delicacies; not everyone can make them, but they are incredibly tasty and look great. 
Simple canapé recipes
- One simple one would be a canapé with sausage, olive and cheese. You can string ham instead of sausage.
- A similar view to the previous one: a couple of varieties of cheese with olives.
- Here is a varied selection of mini sandwiches. Cheese is the basis for each canapé; they differ only in decoration. You can add both pieces of meat and sweet dried fruits to the cheese. Sesame would also be a pretty original idea.
- This recipe is not “cheap”; they make such canapés only a few times. You can’t serve a lot of shrimp on the table; making something unusual out of them is as easy as shelling pears. Place a ring of salami inside the shrimp and seal everything. You can decorate the sandwich with grated cheese or herbs.
- A fairly simple idea, but very original. Mini pancakes need to be poured with sauce and put on a skewer. To make them small, use a teaspoon rather than a ladle to pour the dough.
- Take a look at this photo. There are no canapés here, but the beautiful mass will definitely please everyone. Using gelatin, all layers are connected, then squares are made using molds. After this, you can chop the cube and put it on skewers.
- The next idea is simple and unpretentious. Leeks work well for sprigs.
- This type is also made into a roll, which is garnished with a stick of rosemary. They bring it from Israel. Nowadays you can buy greens in the supermarket without any problems. Its price is quite small.
- Crazy beautiful canapé and very simple. The cherry tomato needs to be cut in half and placed on a skewer. Place a quail egg in it. You can swap the ingredients by decorating the tomato with mayonnaise. You will get something like a “hedgehog”...
- Nothing is spared for the holiday. Therefore, it’s worth a little effort to make canapés from toasted bread and a small cutlet. Make minced meat with an egg - it will be more whole.
- A couple of tips when preparing canapés. In the first photo, a child’s form is used for the form, and in the second case, the largest syringe is used. These are the ideas housewives come up with.
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