I Need Ideas for Appetizers

[Cassatt]

Originally Posted by Veb

If you want splashy and dead easy, you can't go far wrong with puff pastry nibbles. Set 'em up in advance; defrost a few boxes of store bought puff pasty, roll out the sheets a bit, cut into nibble-sized squares and poke an indentation in the top of each section. (Use your fingertip; everybody does, even if they say they don't.) Then squish tasty stuff into the indentations, whatever you like. A crumble of blue cheese topped with a walnut half, olives, a plop of pesto, hell, throw some chopped pepperoni in there. Or go sweet and use dates, a plop of good marmalade, whatever. Then just throw a tray in the oven for about 20 minutes or so (go by what's on the package) and shove 'em into a basket or onto a tray.

Thanks for this tip!! I ended up doing this for our family Christmas party - they were a big hit. I cut the sheets into diamond shapes and did the blue cheese and walnuts. I also ended up doing palmiers with the leftover puff pastry sheets (hey, they were on sale at the grocery store so I bought extra in case I messed up) with some apricot jam I had lying around, and they were pretty good, too.