25 Easy Christmas Canapes That Will Make You Look Great

Cheese and dried fruit lollipops

Showy recipe where they exist. Grate Parmesan cheese and Manchego cheese in equal parts. Add black and white sesame seeds, chopped pistachios, and thyme leaves. Place the skewers on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Place a ring on the other end of the skewer and fill with 2 tablespoons of the cheese and seed mixture. Bake at 180º until golden brown. Let cool before removing them from the tray.

Mini hamburger canapes

A super easy hamburger recipe that everyone will like with the exotic touch of mango chutney. Here is the recipe.

Mango and shrimp canapes

Mango and prawn canapes

Cut the round shaped bread. Do the same with the handle. Sauté some small frozen prawns and reserve. To assemble the Christmas canapé put: layer of bread, layer of mango, layer of bread, a little pink sauce, a couple of prawns, a rolled anchovy and sprinkle with parsley.

Star Canapes

Roll out a puff pastry and cut with a star-shaped mold. Sprinkle a little cheese and bake at 180º until the stars are golden brown. Serve with a little red fruit jam.

Chicken, ham and cheese rolls

Open some chicken breasts in the shape of a book and flatten them with a mallet. Put ham and cheese and make some rolls, hold with a toothpick. Pass them in beaten egg and then in breadcrumbs. Fry them in abundant oil, making sure they do not burn. Then cut them into slices.

Crispy tartlets

Cut the shortening sheets (at room temperature) with a diameter slightly larger than that of the tart molds you are going to use. Sauté some leek and mix it with homemade chips, diced ham and paprika. Add it to the tartlets. Beat two eggs, add salt and pepper, and pour a little mixture into each tart. Bake at 200 degrees. Unmold when warm.

Almond pasties

Cut shortening into squares of approximately 2 cm. Place them in a baking dish on a parchment paper. Put a salted almond on top of each square, pressing well, and paint everything with a beaten egg. Bake until golden brown.

Pistachio and cheese chocolates

This recipe for Christmas canapes is infallible to surprise everyone. And ultra easy to do. It only has 3 ingredients, here is the recipe.

Fresh cheese and salmon canapes

Cut sliced bread into small squares and spread a little fresh cheese. Put a piece of salmon and garnish with caviar substitute and a sprig of dill.

Beef carpaccio canapes

To make these Christmas carpaccio canapes you will need to have frozen beef tenderloin or any lean beef. 15 minutes before preparing the recipe, take it out, cut it into very thin slices and reserve. Cut a bar of bread into slices and bake them at 180º until they are toasted. On the crusty bread, place some escarole leaves, on top distribute some slices of veal, some flakes of salt, freshly ground pepper and a few slices of Parmesan. Drizzle with olive oil and serve immediately.

Quail egg stuffed mushrooms

Clean the mushrooms. Remove and dice the stems. In a frying pan, sauté onion, minced garlic, mushroom stems and diced ham. Salt pepper. Fill the mushrooms with this preparation and crack a quail egg on top of each one. Bake at 180º until the egg whites have set but the yolk is still liquid. Here are more recipes with mushrooms.

Dumplings

Take note of this filling for dumplings: sauté onion, mushrooms to taste, minced beef and pork, blueberries and raw nuts. Salt and pepper to taste Then fill the wafers with empanadillas, paint with an egg and bake at 180º until golden brown.

Avocado and prawn shots

We assure you that your guests will not leave even one of these glasses. Avocado and prawns make an irresistible and healthy mix. Look at the recipe.

Cucumber and salmon canapes

Wash and peel the cucumber leaving strips with skin, cut it into slices. Mix cheese spread with dill and sprinkle a little on top of the slices. Top with rolled smoked salmon and garnish with a little olive oil and dill.

Smoked salmon delicacies

To make the mini sandwiches, spread a slice of sliced bread with crushed avocado with lemon juice, oil, pepper and salt. Put another slice on top and spread with cheese. Add another slice, top with smoked salmon, and dice. For the sachets, make a mixture of chopped crab sticks, chives and boiled egg. Put it on slices of salmon, form bags and tie with chives. And for the rolls, make a French omelette, spread it with cheese, cover it with smoked salmon, roll up and cut.

Tuna and olive rolls

Make a mixture of tuna in drained oil, stuffed olives and chopped piquillo peppers. Add a couple of tablespoons of tomato sauce and a couple of mayonnaise and stir until well incorporated. With this mixture, spread slices of bread on one side and without reaching the edges. Roll them up on themselves, cut the rolls into 2 or 3 slices and decorate with strips of piquillo pepper as if they were roses and whole or chopped chives leaves.

Salmon, cod and smoked trout rolls

We love them. And not only because smoked fish is one of the easiest ways that exist when you want to eat more fish, but also because trout and salmon are blue fish, very rich in beneficial omega 3. Some canapes that, in addition to being delicious and have a super tempting look, they are very easy to do. You dare? See recipe.

Salmon cream cones

Roll some wafers of empanadilla into cones, brush them with beaten egg and bake them for about 8-10 minutes in the oven preheated to 200º. While they bake, make a mixture of spread cheese and mayo, add chopped smoked salmon. Fill the cones with the resulting dough. And decorate with washed dill leaves.

Smoked canapes on blinis

Our recipe for smoked salmon and cod canapes on blinis (a kind of small crepes, typical of Russian cuisine) is one of the most attractive and easy-to-make assorted canapé preparations out there. Believe us. And you don't even have to mess with making the blinis. If you do not have time or do not dare with them, you can or replace them with toast or other bases. See recipe.

Goat cheese with jam and nuts

Cut the chilled goat cheese from the fridge into approximately 1 cm thick slices. On each one, put a teaspoon of orange marmalade or another. Before serving, put them in the oven for 1 minute, already off but previously preheated to 100º to temper them. Then, remove them, and decorate with chopped nuts on top and tender or sprouted sprouts. You can also place them on slices of bread and heat them a little in the oven so that the cheese melts.

Salmon and avocado canapes

On some toast, put smoked salmon and avocado, cut small and drizzled with oil and lemon so that it does not oxidize. Complete with pieces of grapefruit or orange wedge and black olive slices, and seasoning. An easy, nutritious and delicious Christmas snack.

Baby potatoes with brandade of cod, asparagus and ham

On some baby potatoes cooked and cut in half (you can use the ones they sell to make quickly in the microwave and thus save time), place cod brandade, a grilled or canned wild asparagus tip and a piece of ham rolled Iberian.

Baskets with sobrasada, blood sausage and egg

Preheat the oven to 180º. Grease some individual flan molds and insert into them a dumpling wafer, bending the edges into waves. Prick the dough and cook 6 minutes or until the baskets are golden brown. Meanwhile, toast pine nuts and reserve, and fry peeled apple cubes until tender. Add crumbled blood sausage and cook 1 minute. Spread it at the bottom of half the baskets and add the pine nuts. And in the others put sobrasada and sprinkle with sesame. Finally, break a quail egg in each one and bake at 180º for 4 minutes.

Toasts with pear, roquefort and ham

Cut horizontal pear slices about 4 mm thick and grill them a little in a non-stick pan with oil. Put them on toast, topped with crumbled Roquefort cheese and pieces of good ham. And garnish with crumbled walnuts and fresh rosemary leaves.

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