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I found a version of this on the beloved Pinterest a few weeks ago when searching for options for a wedding I was catering that just needed heavy appetizers that were simple and easy but not your regular old chips and dip.
This is the link for the original recipe from Pillsbury:
Mini App from Pillsbury
I made a few changes and only used 4 varieties:
1) Turkey BLT
Smoked Turkey Deli Meat
Cooked Bacon
Grape Tomato (cut in half long ways)
Leafy Lettuce
Take slice of turkey, place bacon and a 1 inch thick slice of lettuce in the middle. Roll up turkey around bacon/lettuce. Then cut rolls in 5 pieces. Place roll on toothpick with crescent button, then place tomato on top.
2) Salami and Olive/Artichoke Cream Cheese
1 can artichoke hearts (small 7-10)
1/2 cup black olives, pitted
1 small cream cheese
Hard Salami sliced
Take artichoke, olives, and cream cheese. Put in your foot processor until you get a nice creamy spread.
There are two ways we did this.
The first: Put the spread in your pastry bag and put a nice dollop of the mix on your crescent buttons then roll your salami in a small roll and place on top of spread.
Or: Put a dollop of the spread in your salami and roll it up. Then cut in half. Put one half on the crescent button and you're done!
3) Caprese
Fresh Mozzarella
Grape Tomato (cut in half short way)
Fresh Basil
You'll want your mozzarella to be cut just big enough to fit on the crescent button. I did cubes, but whatever floats your boat (you can't really go wrong with this). You can also use string cheese! Just cut the cheese into about 7-8 pieces and it creates perfect little circles!
Mozzarella goes first, then basil (I cut the leaves just big enough to be able to fold over on the toothpick), then place the halved tomato on top! Taaadaa!! You can also put a drop or so of balsamic glaze or balsamic vinegar on top for taste, whatever you like!
4) Shrimp
Baby Shrimp
Finely Sliced Cucumber
Fresh Dill
This by far is the fanciest looking variety out of all of them!
Slice your cucumber as thin as you can, you can use your food processor accessory to slice it and it helps! Take the slice and fold it in half, then half again and put on the crescent button.
Then take your shrimp and stuff it with a small twig of dill in the middle, then fold shrimp in half as to hold dill in the middle. Place on toothpick on top of cucumber.
These are great and give you the freedom to make up your own to fit the crowd you are serving or the theme you are going with for your event.
Like I said, I did this for a small wedding and could have made 200 more and people still wouldn't have had enough! The way I measure success of my cooking for people outside of my friends is when an older lady comes up to me and asks me for the recipe... at that point, I know I done good!! And that happened plenty of times at the wedding!!
So with holidays coming up that are full of office parties and family get togethers, wow your guests with these easy appetizers that make you look like a pro!! YUM!
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