To make the festive table look spectacular and appetizing, you need to take care of a large number of interesting treats. In addition to the main dishes, it is worth preparing snacks for the festive date or birthday. Below are published the most delicious options with the original design.

Adult birthday snacks

If hot at the birthday party is not served at the very beginning of the holiday, then snacks should be very satisfying.

In order for even the most banal treats to truly surprise guests, they need to be decorated in an original way.

Appetizer with curd cheese and red fish

Ingredients: 10 pieces of red slightly salted fish and salty round crackers, cottage cheese with herbs, strong fresh cucumber.

  1. Crackers should be thin and crispy. Cheesy flavor option. They are covered with curd cheese. If the dairy product is without additives, chopped fresh herbs can be mixed in it yourself.
  2. A piece of fish is laid out on each cracker.
  3. Appetizer is decorated with a circle of fresh cucumber.

Crackers are served to the table immediately, until they are soaked.

Raffaello with crab sticks

Ingredients: a large pack of juicy crab sticks, 80 g of cheese, 3 eggs, a clove of garlic, olive mayonnaise.

  1. Crab sticks rub very finely. The resulting chips are divided into two equal parts (separately for a snack and for decorating it).
  2. Eggs are cooked to a hardened center and grated just as finely.
  3. Similarly, all semi-hard or hard cheese is ground.
  4. All fine chips are combined. Mashed garlic is added.
  5. The mixture is poured with olive mayonnaise.
  6. Balls are molded from the resulting dense mass, which fall off in the remaining crab chips.

Here is such an original serving of a popular holiday salad. To taste, inside of each ball you can add a half of olives or almonds.

Korean carrot snack roll

Ingredients: large thin pita bread, 90 g spicy Korean carrots, 40 g cheese, 2 feathers of green onions, classic mayonnaise.

  1. All cheese is very finely rubbed and mixed with mayonnaise.
  2. Chives are chopped finely.
  3. Lavash is cut in half. One part of it is smeared with the mixture from the first step.
  4. The second half of pita bread is laid out on top, which is also smeared with cheese sauce and covered with a spicy vegetable snack and chopped greens.

A neat, tight roll is rolled up, which is covered with several layers of cling film and is removed in the cold.

Ham and cheese fast appetizer

Ingredients: 200 grams of ham, 2 boiled eggs, 60 g of cheese, clove of garlic, 2 tbsp. l mayonnaise, 70 g assorted peeled nuts.

  1. Ham, boiled eggs and whole cheese are very finely rubbed.
  2. Garlic is warming up.
  3. The nuts are chopped finely. After grinding, they all mix together. It is best to take cedar, almonds and walnuts. Their taste is delicate, neutral, not sharp and perfectly in harmony with the rest of the ingredients.
  4. Products from the first two steps also connect. Mayonnaise interferes in the resulting mass.
  5. Miniature balls are molded from the mixture.
  6. Each of the blanks is crushed in chopped nuts.

The appetizer is laid out on lettuce leaves or decorated in any other way.

Holiday Chicken Rolls

Ingredients: 2 chicken, 40 g parsley, 2 cloves of garlic, 45 g nuts, salt, aromatic herbs.

  1. Each fillet is not completely cut and unfolds like a book.
  2. The workpiece is beaten off with a special hammer. If such a tool is not available to the hostess, you can use the blunt side of the knife blade.
  3. On top of the slices are covered with salt and aromatic herbs.
  4. Parsley, nuts and garlic are ground together. The resulting mass as a filling is wrapped in chicken.
  5. Dense rolls are covered with foil with the shiny side inward.

Appetizer baked in the oven for no more than half an hour. Otherwise, the meat may turn out to be a little dry.

Hearty appetizer “Champignons in bacon”

Ingredients: 10 large champignons, 90 g cheese, 60 g butter, 2 cloves of garlic, 10 strips of bacon, 4 tbsp. l cream, dill.

  1. Knives are cut from the mushrooms. The spoon removes the core. Clean caps with a cavity should remain.
  2. The legs are finely chopped, mixed with 2/3 of the grated cheese, softened butter and cream.
  3. Each cap is stuffed with a filling. The remaining cheese is poured on top.
  4. Each mushroom is wrapped in a strip of bacon.

In the heat-resistant container, the workpieces are sent to the oven for 17 - 20 minutes. An already prepared snack is decorated with fresh or dried dill.

Oven pita roll with minced meat

Ingredients: 230 g minced meat, large thin pita bread, onion head, 2 tbsp. l sour cream, paprika, 2 tbsp. l hot ketchup, 25 g of cheese, salt, egg yolk.

  1. Stuffing is combined with very finely chopped onions. Sour cream, paprika and salt are added. The components are well kneaded.
  2. The meat mass is laid out on the edge of the pita along the entire length, covered with sharp ketchup and sprinkled with grated cheese.
  3. Pita bread is wrapped in a tight roll.
  4. The workpiece is laid out on a baking sheet covered with parchment and smeared with egg yolk.
  5. In the oven, the dish is baked a little less than half an hour.

This is an excellent option for a snack at work, which is suitable for a hearty snack at lunchtime.

Shrimp Stuffed Eggs

Ingredients: 2 eggs, 35 g of semi-hard cheese, 10 salted boiled-frozen shrimps, 1 tsp. mayonnaise, small fresh cucumber, salt.

  1. Hard boiled eggs. Cool and clean. This must be done very carefully so that they remain smooth and beautiful. To do this, dip the boiled eggs immediately in ice water - the shells will be easily cleaned from the eggs cooled in this way, without grabbing the protein with them.
  2. Each egg is cut in half.
  3. Seafood is poured with boiling water for a couple of minutes and laid out in a colander.
  4. Shrimps (6 pcs.) Are cleaned of all unnecessary and finely cut.
  5. Cucumbers are chopped with miniature cubes. Cheese is also chopped.
  6. Yolks are taken out of the egg halves and crumble.
  7. Products from the last three steps are combined, salted, mixed with mayonnaise.
  8. The resulting filling is filled with half the eggs.

The appetizer is decorated with the remaining whole shrimp.

Ham and Cheese Rolls

Ingredients: 12 slices of ham, 60 g of cheese, garlic to taste, mayonnaise based on quail eggs.

  1. The cheese is rubbing coarsely.
  2. The garlic is mashed and, together with the mayonnaise, goes to the cheese chips.
  3. The resulting filling is laid out on every ham slice.
  4. The appetizer is neatly wrapped and secured with skewers.

Rolls are cooled and served to guests.

Chicken and mushroom tartlets

Ingredients: ½ kg chicken, 380 g mushrooms, 170 g cheese, 2 onions, 1 tbsp. medium fat cream, 14 ready-made tartlets, salt.

  1. Finely chopped onions are fried until a golden hue appears.
  2. The fillet is finely chopped and sent to the vegetable.
  3. After 10 - 12 minutes of frying, chopped mushrooms are laid out there. The mass is salted.
  4. After another 5 - 6 minutes, the filling can be distributed on tartlets.
  5. A little cream is poured into each piece. Grated cheese crumbles on top.

Tartlets are baked in a hot oven for 17 minutes. Cooking such an appetizer for the future is not worth it - tartlets can get wet and lose their presentable appearance.

Canapes with sausage and cheese

Ingredients: 60 g each of high-quality cooked sausage, bread and Dutch cheese, half a fresh cucumber.

  1. Mini slices or squares are cut from slices of bread.
  2. Pieces of the same shape cut into the remaining ingredients.
  3. First, a piece of sausage is laid out on a curly bread base, then cheese and cucumber.

Designs are fixed with skewers and immediately served to guests.

Strawberry appetizer with potatoes and herring

Ingredients: large herring, 6 potatoes, beets, onions, 1 tbsp. l light sesame seeds, parsley.

  1. Only pure fillet will be used from herring. It is finely chopped, gets rid of all the bones.
  2. Onion rubs on a grater.
  3. Potatoes are boiled until soft, mashed.
  4. Fish and onion gruel combine.
  5. A flat cake is molded from mashed potatoes, into which onion-fish filling is laid.
  6. The blank is shaped like a strawberry.
  7. Beets finely rubs, poured with a small amount of water. The resulting juice is poured into a separate bowl.
  8. Into the liquid for 30 sec. every strawberry is immersed.

From sesame seeds are distributed on it. Leaves of berries will imitate parsley.

Meat cut "Rooster tail"

Ingredients: 70 g of boiled pork, Italian salami, boiled-smoked neck and ham, boiled egg, a couple of olives, yellow bell pepper.

  1. All meat products are cut into thin slices.
  2. From a boiled egg, a slice of sweet yellow pepper and olive, a cockerel is formed with a bright comb, miniature eyes and a beak.
  3. Pieces of meat are laid out in the overlap in the form of a bird's tail.
  4. It is decorated with slices of olives and sweet pepper slices.

Children's birthday snacks

The main task of children's birthday snacks is to attract the attention of the kids and cause them appetite. You can use the simplest products in the preparation of such dishes, but it is important to create bright, attractive compositions from them.

Sandwiches in the shape of a ladybug

Ingredients: 5 slices of rye bread with seeds, 5 pitted olives, 50 g of cottage cheese, parsley.

  1. Each slice of bread is covered with curd cheese.
  2. Parsley is laid out on it, which will imitate the grass.
  3. On top is placed half of the cherry. From the olive, the head of the beetle and specks are cut out.

Eyes "ladybugs" are drawn with the remaining curd cheese.

Children's snack "Mouse fuss"

Ingredients: 1 slice of bread, 2 plates of cheese, 20 g butter, boiled quail egg, ½ boiled carrots, a sprig of parsley.

  1. The bread is oiled and covered with 1 cheese plate. A second piece is laid on top with holes cut out on it.
  2. A boiled quail egg is placed on the cheese. This will be the head of the mouse. Ears are cut from carrots and inserted into the egg.
  3. Parsley mimics a mustache.

Eyes can be made from cloves and other suitable ingredients.

Appetizer "Amanita"

Ingredients: 2 eggs, 90 g of hard cheese, 2 cucumbers, 90 g of ham, 8 cherry tomatoes, mayonnaise, any fresh herbs.

  1. Cucumbers are cut in circles. Tomatoes - halves.
  2. Eggs, cheese and ham are finely rubbed, mixed and seasoned with mayonnaise.
  3. The greens are crushed.
  4. The filling from the second step is laid out on a circle of cucumber in a column. She is covered in half a cherry.
  5. Around scattered greens, imitating grass.

Dots on mushroom caps are placed with mayonnaise.

White bread mini pizza

Ingredients: a package of sliced ​​toast bread, 270 g of smoked sausage, 340 g of cheese, 2 medium tomatoes, 1 tsp. oregano, 140 g of classic mayonnaise.

  1. Sausage is cleaned and cut into squares.
  2. Tomatoes are also chopped.
  3. Cheese finely rubs.
  4. The components prepared in the previous steps are mixed and seasoned with mayonnaise.
  5. Bread slices are laid out on a baking sheet and smeared with mayonnaise.
  6. Filling is distributed on bread.
  7. Oregano crumbles from above.

Lazy pizzas are baked until golden in the oven.

Sandwiches in the form of mobile phones

Ingredients: 3 slices of wheat bread, 4 slices of smoked sausage, 6 slices of hard cheese and a handful of grated, 3 feathers of green onions, cream cheese, 2 slices of sweet bell pepper, 1 tbsp. l canned green peas, as much corn.

  1. All bread slices are oiled.
  2. Corn and pea grains are cut in half.
  3. Pieces of sausage and cheese are laid on bread.
  4. Pepper and the remaining sausage are cut into rectangles equal to half the sandwich. They are randomly laid out on bread.
  5. As a result, one sausage half will turn out on the sandwich, and the second - vegetable (from pepper) or cheese.
  6. Under the filling is inserted a feather of green onions, simulating the antenna of the phone.

The buttons will simulate the halves of peas and corn.

Olive Penguins

Ingredients: a can of seedless olives, whole carrots, 140 g of cream cheese.

  1. The root crop is cooked until soft and cut into thick circles. One of them is cut out of them on the basis of pizza. This will result in a blank imitating penguin legs.
  2. A toothpick is set in the center of the cropped circle. So you need to do with each workpiece.
  3. In olives, on the one hand, an incision is made through which they are filled with cream cheese. Filled olives will mimic a penguin's body. They are the first to string on toothpicks.
  4. Located on top of the second olive tree. A hole is made in it, into which a cut out piece of boiled carrot in the form of a beak is inserted.

Around the finished snack, you can sprinkle grated protein that mimics the snow.

Fruit Hedgehog Appetizer

Ingredients: 1 pc. apples, tangerines and pears, on a sprig of white and blue grapes.

  1. At the pear, the ends are cut off and one side part is cut off so that it stably stands on the table.
  2. Toothpicks are stuck across the entire surface of the fruit.
  3. Slices of mandarin and grapes are strung on sharp ends.

You can experiment with any other fruit.

“Boats” from eggs with cheese filling

Ingredients: 6 eggs, 2 garlic cloves, 130 g of sausage cheese and 90 g of ordinary hard, classic mayonnaise.

  1. Boiled eggs are cut in half and discarded from the yolk.
  2. Sausage cheese finely rubs. Combines with mashed garlic and mayonnaise.
  3. Halves of eggs are filled with mass.
  4. Hard cheese is cut into thin slices. With the help of toothpicks, they are fixed on the egg blanks in the form of a sail of a boat.

Chocolate Bananas on Skewers

Ingredients: 6 small bananas, 2 tiles of dark chocolate, 2 tbsp. l fat cream.

  1. Each banana is cut in half. Pieces are strung on skewers and put away in the freezer for a quarter of an hour.
  2. Chocolate is melted with cream.
  3. Frozen fruits are immersed in this mass.
  4. Billets are vertically mounted in a tall glass. They should not be in contact with each other.

Finished bananas can be rolled in coconut or chopped nuts.

Magic bread with decorative food powder

Ingredients: 4 slices of white bread, ½ tbsp. color decorative food powder, ½ tbsp. chocolate paste.

  1. A crust is cut from bread.
  2. Each piece is smeared with chocolate paste.
  3. A confectionery powder spills out from above.

Sandwiches are laid out beautifully on a plate and served to kids.

Pineapple "boat"

Ingredients: a can of canned pineapple rings, a large banana.

  1. Pineapple rings are cut in half.
  2. From bananas are cut round base. Toothpicks are stuck into them as a mast.
  3. On top are pineapple half-rings sails.

The appetizer is laid out on a beautiful flat plate.

Chicken Lollipops

Ingredients: 4 chicken drumsticks, 1 onion, 3 tbsp. l ketchup, a pinch of curry, salt, 1 tbsp. l starch and soy sauce.

  1. The skin is removed from the lower legs.
  2. Tendons are notched. The meat moves down the bone, as if eversed.
  3. It turns out a meat ball at the end of the bone.
  4. Chicken is rubbed with salt, curry. Fried until golden brown.

Billets are rubbed with a mixture of ketchup, starch and sauce, fried until tender.

Profiteroles with crab filling

Ingredients: 10 pcs. finished profiteroles, 8 crab sticks, 120 g soft cream cheese, 1/3 tbsp. canned corn, chives.

  1. Crab sticks are finely cut and combined with corn kernels, chopped onions and cream cheese.
  2. Profiteroles are cut in half and begin with the resulting mass.

The appetizer is decorated with fresh herbs.

All of the above snacks are prepared very quickly and simply. Even a novice hostess will be able to cope with them. When serving ready meals, you should take care of the beautiful dishes.

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