Christmas Canapes. What Do You Do?

[SashaOfSiberia]

I love the idea of doing canapés and champagne on Christmas Day for our visiting family.

I've never done them before and am not a very experienced cook so want to get some practice in between now and then.

Recipe suggestions please...

Watching drooling with interest

My MIL makes the easiest christmas canapés. Smoked salmon 'sausage' rolls. Buy ready rolled puff pastry, roll it outa bit more so it's thin. Cut into long strips and lay strips of smoked salmon down each one. Brush one side with milk. Roll over into long rolls and cut into bite sized pieces. Brush with egg and bake till golden. Really nice ! And you can make in advance and then freeze and cook from frozen on christmas morning too.

We often have friends to stay from 30th Dec to 2nd Jan and kick of Hogmanay with canapés and fizz or 'bellinis and blinis' as we say.

Peach bellinis and a selection of blinis with various toppings such as smoked salmon and crème fraiche, black pudding and quails egg, bacon and mushroom, parma ham with roast tomato and parmesan... then the really good ones, nutella and banana, yogurt with fresh fruit and honey, strawberries and clotted cream.

I make the blinis the week before Christmas and freeze them, taking out the night before I need them. I just lay them out in trays, fill a jug with peach puree (I blitz a tin of peaches in their own juice) then fill the ice bucket with bottles of prosecco. Minimal clear up!

I love blinis, but just usually with smoked salmon and cream cheese.

I have also made canapés with this Rachel Allen mixture on chicory leaves. The cranberries, Stilton and nuts are so seasonal

uktv.co.uk/food/recipe/aid/572390

Thanks, some good ideas here and I like the sound of making ahead. It should avoid any stress.

I love a peach bellini but couldn't work out how to make the peach juice (feel an idiot now). I'm definitely going to give that a go now.

You buy peach juice but it can sometimes be tricky to find.

We have stopped having canapés as we did not have any room for christmas dinner.

There are some delish sounding canapes in the Sarah Raven Xmas book. Am mid move but will be digging that out for inspiration when we unpack