Seasonal & Holidays
30 Easy-to-Eat Holiday Party Appetizers to Serve Up ASAP
Mini holiday favorites, sliders on a stick, and the easiest appetizer of all time. These apps are all delicious, and none require a fork.
When everyone's mingling in their holiday finest, who has time to fiddle with forks and knives? Your guests will thank you for serving up a few of these crowd-pleasing appetizers that are not only easy to eat with a drink in your hand but incredibly scrumptious.
Christmas Tree Cheese Appetizer
Everyone loves a cheese platter, but guests will love this Christmas tree display even more. All you need are grapes, thyme and a few cheeses of your choice.
Spinach and Artichoke Dip Stuffed Garlic Bread
All the goodness of spinach artichoke dip but none of the broken chips and messy dripping. Genius.
Brie, Apple, and Honey Crostini
These clever crostini look fancy but only take 15 minutes to put together.
Christmas Tree Pull-Apart Bread
Pre-made pizza crust makes this adorable doughy tree easy to make, and a mix of fresh herb packs in flavor.
Mini Hasselback Potatoes with Creamy Dill Dip
These shrunken-down Hasselback Potatoes have the same deliciousness of the classic side dish but lots of extra cuteness.
Skip the toothpick and put your mini meatballs on a mini crostini to create the perfect savory bite.
Crock Pot Bourbon Glazed Kielbasa
Four ingredients and four hours in the crockpot, and you have a perfect pop-able app.
These cream cheese-filled pinwheels are super low-effort; 10 minutes of assembly, and you’ll have 48 bite-sized treats.
Why didn’t we think of this one? Just add potato chips to a sheet pan, cover with some sweet and salty toppings, bake, then serve up a super-addicting party snack.
Thanks to a crunchy buttery crust, crab cakes are no longer impossible to eat without a fork! These bite-sized treats are sure to impress.
Cranberry Meatballs with Sour Cream Herb Dip
The sour cream dip puts these festive holiday meatballs over the top.
Cranberry Chicken Salad on Apple Slices
Put the spot light on fall’s fresh harvest with these easy bites that are as healthy as they are yummy.
Five ingredients, 10 minutes to prep and 11 minutes in the oven – thank goodness these puffy bites are quick to make, because they will disappear just as fast.
It’s not Christmas without a cheese ball, and these are way easier to munch on than the traditional kind.
This oh-so-simple recipe packs tons of flavor with little effort. You couldn’t fit more Mediterranean flavor on a stick if you tried.
Mini Tomato and Mozzarella Tarts
These perfect puff pastry circles get a nice punch of red and green punch thanks to fresh tomato and basil.
Easy Prosciutto-Wrapped Shrimp
Shrimp and prosciutto are plenty delish on their own, but put them together, and you got something really special.
The sweet and spicy special sauce drizzled over these bacon-wrapped water chestnuts is the secret that makes them really shine.
Instead of dumping a box of Ritz into a bowl for your fancy Christmas cocktail party, opt for these easy-to-make wonton crackers that look so much classier.
For your clean-eating friends, these festive pumpkin spiced almonds are sure to please.
These stuffed mushrooms may look like your average appetizer, but they get extra crunch and density from a secret ingredient you probably already have in your pantry: Bisquick!
Puff pastry makes these savory Palmiers easy to pull together, and the pesto and parmesan filling will go perfectly with a red and green party theme.
Bacon-Cranberry-Walnut-Stuffed Celery
A kid’s snack is all grown up thanks to festive flavors and colors. We’ll go ahead and bet these low-cal celery sticks will be a huge hit.
Turn classic French baguette slices into the easiest holiday appetizer ever by serving up this garlic dip on the side.
Even veggie haters just may be swayed by these adorable Brussels sprout sliders on a stick. Hurry up and steal this idea before your friends do.
Mini Crustless Asparagus Red Bell Pepper Ham Quiche
Who can turn down a mini quiche? No one, that’s who. Asparagus and red bell pepper make this recipe a perfect fit for a Christmas party.
Sure, these little crusty cakes look unassuming, but they are more than your average appetizer. Made with risotto leftovers, these cheesy bites are super indulgent.
A tipped pastry bag makes these healthy cucumber bites a breeze to put together before guests arrive.
Spinach, Thyme and Pork Potstickers
A Chinese treat gets a traditional holiday twist with spinach, thyme and pork filling.
Got kids coming to your Christmas party? Guests of all ages will devour these ham-and-cheese rollups.
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