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This round up includes the best and easiest Christmas appetizers that are simple to make ahead, healthy, made in the crock pot, and ALL crowd favorites!
We Love Christmas Party Appetizers
With so much entertaining that happens around the holidays, a list of go-to 40+ easy Christmas appetizers is never a bad idea, because we are firm believers that you can’t go wrong with yummy appetizers at your gatherings.
From cranberry-topped bites and cozy slow-cooker nibbles to show-stopping charcuterie boards, this list rounds up our easiest Christmas appetizers for open houses, church gatherings, and Christmas Eve parties. We mixed warm and cold, heavy and light, and plenty that are make-ahead or crock-pot friendly to save that precious oven space.
This festive Christmas Tree Charcuterie board is sure to be the star of your holiday parties this year. The best part is it is so easy and fun to put together!
Sweet Salsa Verde – a delicious salsa recipe that is sweet and takes just minutes to make. Ingredients include tomatillos, jalapenos, sugar, & cilantro.
From creamy potatoes to roasted veggies, these simple side dishes are the real stars of Christmas dinner and ones everybody loves.
Servings: 12
Prep: 10 minutesmins
Cook: 20 minutesmins
Total: 30 minutesmins
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Ingredients
½ (17-ounce)packagefrozen puff pastrythawed
1 (8-ounce)packagebrie cheese roundrind on, cut in half
⅛cupsliced toasted almondsoptional
¼cupapricot preservesor your favorite preserve
2egg whites
Instructions
Lightly grease a pie pan with cooking spray. Preheat the oven to 400°F.
Slightly roll out the sheet of puff pastry and place over pie pan. Place half the cheese round in the center.
Add the almonds, then place the top half of the brie cheese on top and press down. Add the preserves on top of the cheese round (you can also add the almonds on top of the preserved if preferred).
Wash edges of the puff pastry with egg wash and fold the puff pastry up over the cheese round so that the sides meet together. Press together and cut off excess.
Roll out excess and make any decorative dough pieces. We made leaves. Place on top and brush the rest of the egg wash all over the puff pastry dough.
Bake for 20-25 minutes.
Allow the brie to cool for 5 minutes. Serve warm with crackers and apples.
Notes
Make ahead of time to be baked before serving. Prepare the brie according to the recipe, but do not bake it. Instead, wrap the brie with plastic wrap and store it in the fridge for 24 hours. Bake according to the recipe.
FREEZE. Wrap it again with foil. Freeze for up to one month. To bake from frozen: remove the foil and plastic. Preheat the oven to 350°F and bake for 45-50 minutes or until hot throughout and the pastry is golden brown.
STORE leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge for 2-3 days. Reheat it in a 200°F oven until the cheese is warm.
Kristyn Merkley is a published cookbook author, wife, mom of six, and major food enthusiast! For the past 15 years, she has been sharing foolproof, family-friendly recipes—each one tested in her kitchen—that anyone can master. As a seasoned recipe creator, she loves making cooking simple, stress-free, and totally doable for everyone!
I made a huge batch of the bacon wrapped smokies for a Christmas party earlier this month. I froze a couple of dozen to make on Christmas morning. I thawed them in the fridge overnight, added the brown sugar and baked them. Perfect addition to our Christmas morning breakfast.
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I made a huge batch of the bacon wrapped smokies for a Christmas party earlier this month. I froze a couple of dozen to make on Christmas morning. I thawed them in the fridge overnight, added the brown sugar and baked them. Perfect addition to our Christmas morning breakfast.
Love all the different ideas for appetizers. You cant go wrong with any of these. Trying to decide which one will be the hardest.
Love this list!! We make your bruschetta & spinach artichoke dip every year, multiple times a year!! The appetizers are the best part of the meal!!
this is amazing and those spinach puffs are everything! thank you so much for sharing all these amazing recipes!
Okay the only hard part is choosing what to make!! Everything looks amazing!
This is the best collection yet! We love those sausage balls and we are making a bunch more for Christmas!