Cocktail Party Canapes

Added on Wed Oct 10 2007

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The Basics

• Dish: Hors d'Oeuvres
• cuisine: European - Other
• Serves: 10
• Prep Time: 0hrs 55 mins
• Cooking Time: 0hrs 15 mins

Ingredients

Method

RECIPE 1: Goats Cheese Crostini

(These are More-ish, peeps wolf em down!):

Ingredients:
- 1 thin baguette (works much better if baguette is relatively thin)
- Butter (Half a slab!)
- Goats Cheese (2 thin rolls of it)
- Sun dried tomato pesto or basil pesto
- Red peppers or basil leaves

Method:
I usually use half the baguette for sun dried tomato crostinis & the other half for basil pesto crostini:

- Cut baguette into slices about 1 inch thick
- Cut Goats Cheese roll into thin slices
- Melt butter in micro wave
- Dip baguette slices in butter to coat both sides & place on a baking dish lined with tinfoil
- Spread half the butter coated baguette slices with Sun dried tomato pesto & spread the other half with basil pesto
- Place a slice of goats cheese on each one
- Place a basil leaf on each basil pesto crostini
- Place 2 lil slices of red pepper in the shape of lips on each sundried tomato crostini
- Bake in oven at 200 degrees for 10 – 15 mins (until goats cheese is golden colour & bread is crisped)
- Leave to cool a bit then serve to guests!



RECIPE 2: Jazzed up cheese n chutney cocktail Sausages:

Cocktail sausages are a simple canapé which everybody loves – but if you don't want to be boring you can jazz them up ever so slightly to taste even nicer:

Ingredients:
- Cheddar
- Mango Chutney

Method:
- Cook the cocktail sausages as normal
- 5 mins before sausages are ready, take them out of the oven. Slit each one down the middle & stuff with cheddar cheese & chutney
- Cook for a further 5 – 10 mins
- Serve!

RECIPE 3: Cherry tomato, marinated feta and basil skewers:

Ingredients:
- Feta cheese (enough to make 40 squares)
- Olive oil
- Oregano
- black pepper
- 40 cherry tomatoes
- Fresh Basil
- Cocktail Sticks

Method:
- Cut the feta into 40 even squares
- Grate the lemon to get the zest
- Mix 2 tablespoons of olive oil, the lemon zest, a bit of oregano & a bit of pepper together
- Pour over feta squares & leave to marinate for a few hours
- Once feta is marinated, make pretty lil skewers with cherry tomato, feta & a lil basil leaf so it looks like a lil sail of a boat on the top
- These are now ready to serve but you can make a pretty centre piece by covering a cabbage with tinfoil then sticking all of the skewers into the cabbage



RECIPE 4: Asparagus & Parma ham wraps:

Ingredients:
- Asparagus spears (2 for each wrap you want to make)
- Parma Ham (1 for each wrap you want to make)
- Philadelphia cheese
- Olive Oil
- Salt

Mehod:
- Put olive oil & salt in a bowl & mix asparagus spears in it
- Chargrill asparagus in a wok or, even better, a griddle pan for 3 or 4 mins
- Leave asparagus to cool
- Put a bit of Philadelphia cheese near the edge of each parma ham slice & place 2 asparagus spears ontop then roll so that you are wrapping the asparagus & Philadelphia in the parma ham




RECIPE 5: Mojito Cocktail

Ingredients:
- 1 part rum
- 3 parts soda
- A handful of mint leaves
- Half a lime
- 3 teaspoons of brown sugar

Method:
- Put mint leaves, sugar & lime in a glass & crush with a pestle (or something similar!)
- Add Rum
- Top off with soda
- Garnish with mint leaves or lime