Organization of a children's holiday is a rather troublesome business. Parents need to determine the place of celebration, with a list of guests, with a dress for the birthday boy. Also one of the main moments of any holiday is a treat. It depends on the age, appetite and predilections of the children invited, as well as whether the children themselves or together with their parents.
One of the win-win options for the children's holiday are canapé sandwiches. They are small pieces of bread (fresh or dried), smeared with something delicious and festively decorated. They are usually used for buffets, that is, not serving a large number of hearty dishes on the table, and setting it with a lot of small snacks. Canapes differ from ordinary sandwiches, primarily in size - they are very small, weighing literally 50-60 g. In addition, both adults and children's canapes are often made on skewers so that it is not necessary to hold them in their hands and bite off a piece - you can immediately send them to the mouth. It is very convenient for children: there is less opportunity to get stained with butter or pâté, which is smeared with sandwiches.
Canapé recipes for children
- An excellent option for children's birthday party is a fruit canapé for children. To do this, you can simply string small pieces of colored fruits onto a skewer, or decorate them even more original, carving each piece with a beautiful mold in the form of cats, squirrels, dogs, fir-trees, etc. If you do not have such molds, they can be replaced by a regular "twenty" syringe with a cut spout: just cut out the right amount of fruit of different colors with a syringe, and then put them on the skewers and carefully remove them. So all the pieces will turn out to be equally round. An important condition for preparing canapes from fruit is the following: they should be cooked before serving. It is desirable to sprinkle them with lemon juice, so that the fruit retains its freshness for as long as possible. Fruit canapes are best made from apples, solid sorts of pears and plums, kiwi, bananas, grapes without pits. If there are small children at the festival, it is better to ask their parents beforehand if the kids are allergic to specific types of fruits or berries.
- How to make a canapé for children is not just a tasty, but also an interesting dish? Of course, with the help of unusual design. Believe me, no such child will refuse such "mouse" sandwiches! We smear a small piece of bread with unsweetened curd mass, decorate with cucumber slices (ocelli), radish (ears), sweet salad pepper (spout), and green onion pens (antennae).
- Canapes in the form of ladybirds - an excellent opportunity to please the children with a beautifully decorated dish. To make such sandwiches, you will need cherry tomatoes, olives, salted crackers or other light biscuits, pasty cheese and greens, lettuce leaves. For the basis of canapé, take the pastry, smeared with cheese, from the tomatoes cut in half, build the wings of the ladybug, from the olives - her head, legs and points on the wings, decorate with herbs - and the miracle of children's cooking is ready!
- A light snack for a children's receptions is a mushroom-fly agaric of cherry tomatoes and quail eggs. To decorate the dish, you will need any greens or Peking cabbage, as well as sour cream, to make white specks on the mushrooms.
- Cheese - a very convenient product for these dishes. It is necessary to cut hard cheese into cubes, and to string them on skewers, alternating with grapes or olives. In principle, other vegetables (cucumber, sweet pepper, etc.) are suitable for this variant of canapé, but this depends on the taste preferences of your little gourmets.
