Fruit Canapes On Skewers For Children And Adults: Step By Step Recipes With Photos

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-17 22:26

Fruit canapes for every occasion: for children, adults and sophisticated gourmets

Variegated fruit canapes will be in place at any feast. They will make a romantic dinner more sophisticated, delight the kids at a children's party, and help to impress colleagues with a spectacular mini-buffet without much effort. They are interesting, varied, and allow you to “be creative” from the heart with taste and form. In a word, not a single hostess will hurt to master a couple of recipes for making fruit snacks on skewers. Believe me, they will come in handy more than once.

Content

• 1 Fruit canapes - the highlight of the festive table
• 2 How to cut fruit beautifully

• 3 Step-by-step fruit canapé recipes

  • 3.1 For adults

    • 3.1.1 With grapes and cheese
    • 3.1.2 With melon and parma ham
    • 3.1.3 With pear and cheese Dor Blue
    • 3.1.4 Lemon with marmalade and cheese

  • 3.2 For children and older people with a sweet tooth

    • 1 Bananas, strawberries and chocolate covered marshmallows
    • 3.2.2 Jelly on skewers
    • 3.2.3 Fruit platter
    • 3.2.4 Fruit canapes for lunch - video
• 4 Options for serving fruit canapes in the photo

Fruit canapes - the highlight of the festive table

It is now impossible to establish the exact time and place of the birth of delicious baby sandwiches - and even more so to find out whose clever head guessed to string not only meat and cheese, but also fragrant fruits on a wooden skewer. According to linguistic scientists, the very word "canape" came to us from ancient Greece, where it sounded like "konops" and served to denote small insects - like a mosquito or a mosquito. The Egyptians, and after them the Romans, adopted the Greek term, modified it to "conopeum" and began to call it beds with a net from uninvited blood-sucking guests. Over time, the word traveler moved from Latin to European languages and firmly settled in French, for some unknown reason clinging not to a canopy bed, but to a miniature sofa with a curved back. So…

And then there are solid secrets. Either the French remembered the original meaning of the term "canapes" and called the snack sandwiches "mosquitoes" for their small size. Either the chef with a particularly violent imagination saw in the pieces of delicious food, piled up in a pile, a resemblance to his favorite piece of furniture. Or perhaps the fact is that it was most convenient to absorb an unusual snack just on such sofas, leisurely sipping wine from a glass and conducting a leisurely dialogue with your interlocutor.

It is still better to remove the seeds from cherries when preparing canapes.

Whatever the case may be, one thing is certain: the fun idea took root, gained popularity and spawned dozens of different, but invariably delicious, culinary recipes. And there are at least five reasons for this:

1. Fruit canapes are delicious, juicy and flavorful.
2. If you don't set out to create some absolutely incredible composition from a dozen different ingredients, you can prepare a treat in no time. For example, strawberry-banana "canapes" will take away a quarter of an hour from a skilled housewife.
3. It is impossible to find a recipe for fruit salad or cake that would please every guest to the last. But out of half a dozen different options for fruit sandwiches, even the most capricious picky will pick up something suitable for themselves.
4. Canapes are versatile. They will perfectly play the role of a dessert at a family feast or a buffet table, will take an honorable place on the children's table, and, on occasion, serve as an exquisite snack for strong drinks. For example, “turrets” with tangerines, kiwi, apricots are suitable for white wine; melon and strawberry are combined with red. It is customary to eat sweet liqueurs with grapes and pears; cognac, in addition to the traditional lemon slice, loves the company of apples and juicy peaches, and the taste of champagne is perfectly set off by pineapple and watermelon.
5. Making a fruit snack is pure creativity. You can not only use any fruits and berries as you wish, but also safely combine them with other ingredients: chocolate, marshmallow, mastic, nuts, marmalade. Sometimes even ham and cheese are used. Complete freedom of creativity and no boundaries!

How beautiful to cut fruit

The easiest way out is to take a knife and simply chop the washed and peeled fruits into cubes or slices. Cheap and cheerful, but ineffective in terms of wasted time. And the beauty of the future "canapes" will suffer, since not everyone will be able to fit the pieces cut by hand to one size, and different-sized slices will greatly spoil the appearance of the snack.

The neater the pieces, the more effective the result.

If you have a special spoon for watermelon and melon in your kitchen, use it. Perfectly even colored spheres on skewers always look impressive.

Any large fruit with not too dense pulp can be turned into balls.

Using cookie cutters, you can turn fruit slices into shapes of any complexity.

A true masterpiece in miniature

If you are seriously keen on the topic of canapés and are going to regularly treat guests and households with sweet "kebabs", it does not hurt to purchase a special device for cutting berries and fruits into pieces. In the budget version, it will be replaced by a regular egg cutter.

The slices will look the same

For the most advanced cooks, a special canapé syringe will come to the rescue. Sequentially use it to slice pieces of fruit selected for a treat, push the plunger, and the finished treat will be on your plate. It remains only to fasten it with an elegant skewer. The syringe will just as easily cope with pieces of biscuit, marshmallow, marmalade and other goodies, if it occurs to you to add them to your creation.

Don't have a cooking syringe? Take a regular one by cutting off the top of it

Step-by-step fruit canapé recipes

So who are you going to regale? Business partners, old friends, relatives at a family holiday? Then turn your attention to the recipes for fruit canapes with cheese and ham. An unusual flavor combination will arouse interest and add a touch of aristocracy to your evening.

For adults

With grapes and cheese

You will need:

• 100 g of cheese;
• 100g green or blue grapes (try to get a seedless variety).

Preparation:

1. Tear off the grapes from the bunch, remove the remnants of dry twigs. Wash the berries, rinse with boiled water and sort. All you need is whole, firm fruit without specks or cracked skin.

   

   Berries should be like a selection!

2. Cut the cheese into small cubes.

   

   The pieces of cheese should be about the same size as the grapes

3. String a piece of cheese on each skewer, and then a berry.

   

   Brevity, as you know, is the sister of talent - nothing more

Hard varieties of cheese are excellently combined with grapes: Gouda, Maasdam, Edam, Holland, Parmesan. However, soft curd cheeses with mold - for example, Brie - will be here in their place. Or, if you want, make a mix of two or three different varieties, shading their taste with halves of walnuts, almonds, strawberries, slices of exotic mango or thin leaves of fresh tarragon.

The classic version of cheese and grape canpe is far from the only one

With melon and parma ham

You will need:

• 0.5 kg of melon;
• 200 g goat cheese;
• 100 g Parma ham, cut into slices;
• 1 tbsp. l. olive oil;
• half a lemon;
• salt and pepper to taste.

Preparation:

1. Cut the melon in half, remove the seeds and cut the pulp into cubes or, using a special spoon, into balls.

   

   In the absence of a cutting spoon, a simple dessert

2. Mix oil, juice of half a lemon, salt, pepper. Pour the marinade over the prepared cantaloupe pieces and leave them alone for a quarter of an hour to allow the pulp to soak.

   

   The result will be better if you whisk the mixture lightly.

3. Slice the goat cheese as you like.

   

   Sprinkle finely chopped basil on the cheese if desired

4. In random order, string pieces of melon and cheese, a slice of ham on a skewer, and then put the canapes in the refrigerator.

   

   The taste of the treat will be beyond praise

5. The appetizer should be served chilled, with red semi-dry or white wine.

   

   Another curious way to serve it: melon wrapped in ham

With pear and cheese Dor Blue

You will need:

• 1-2 pears;
• 100 g Dor Blue cheese;
• 2 tbsp. l. finely chopped walnuts;
• some olive oil;
• juice of half a lemon.

Preparation:

1. Wash the pear and cut into slices, excluding the core area. Sprinkle lemon juice on the slices to avoid browning.

   

   You need medium slices

2. Break the cheese into pieces, mix with nuts and a few drops of butter.

   

   Dor Blue can be replaced with simpler curd cheese, but the taste will not be the same

3. Spoon the filling onto the pear slices, thread through each wooden skewer, and arrange the canapes nicely on a wide plate.

   

   The combination of cheese and pear will turn out to be refined and unusual

Lemon with marmalade and cheese

And here's an absolutely incredible but attractive combination:

• hard cheese;
• the same amount of marmalade;
• half a lemon.

Preparation:

1. Chop the cheese at random.

   

   Gouda, Cheddar, Maasdam? You decide!

2. Do the same with marmalade.

   

   In honor of the holiday, choose brighter colors

3. Cut the lemon into circles, and then divide each of them into 5-6 segments.

   

   You do not need to peel off the peel of the lemon

4. Assemble the canapes in the following order: cheese - marmalade - lemon wedge - and again marmalade.

   

   An unusual snack will reveal the taste of champagne in a new way

5. Serve with champagne.

Such an appetizer usually does not sit on a plate.

For children and over-age sweet tooth

But quite exotic! Let's talk about simpler recipes that don't have such savory food combinations. For example, what could be more traditional and tastier than strawberries and chocolate?

Bananas, strawberries and marshmallows in chocolate

You will need:

• banana;
• a handful of strawberries;
• multi-colored marshmallow;
• half a bar of dark chocolate.

Preparation:

1. Peel the banana and cut into slices.

   

   Drizzle lemon juice on the banana to keep it from browning

2. Wash the strawberries and remove the tails.

   

   The berries must be the same size

3. If the marshmallow is large, cut it into strawberry-sized pieces. Leave the small one as it is.

   

   Multicolored marshmallows look festive

4. Melt the chocolate in a water bath.

   

   If you want to make the mass less thick, add a spoon or two milk to it

5. Put prepared pieces of fruit and marshmallows on wooden sticks, pour over with chocolate and let cool.

   

   Canapes will appeal to both children and adult sweets

If the combination of marshmallow and chocolate seems too sugary, remove one of the sugary ingredients from the recipe or make two sweetened canapes to suit your tastes.

Nobody leaves the holiday disappointed

Jelly on skewers

You will need:

• a bag of grape jelly;
• a bag of strawberry jelly;
• a handful of grapes;
• a handful of strawberries;
• molds for ice.

Preparation:

1. Dilute the jelly according to the instructions on the package.

   

   Do not deviate from the proportions indicated on the jelly bag

2. Place the grapes and strawberries in ice cube trays, and then pour the jelly over the berries.

   

   It is not forbidden to put 2-3 berries per cell - the more, the tastier

3. Wait until the jelly hardens completely, remove the dessert from the molds, transfer it to a dish and stick a toothpick into each portion.

   

   Berries and jelly - the real taste of childhood

Fruit platter

You will need:

• apples;
• canned pineapple;
• kiwi;
• grapes;
• Strawberry;
• blueberry.

Preparation:

1. Wash all fruits. Peel the apples, remove the seeds. Cut the pulp into small pieces.

   

   Look for sweet apple varieties in the market, such as Kitayka, Medok, Belarusian apple

2. Peel and chop the kiwi.

   

   Act quickly or the kiwi will lose its juiciness

3. Sort the berries, remove the tails from the strawberries.

   

   Light blueberry sourness harmonizes wonderfully with sweet strawberries

4. Tear off the grapes from the bunch.

   

   The grape variety can be any, but it is desirable without seeds

5. Remove the pineapples from the jar, let the juice drain and cut as you like.

   

   Pineapple canapes are sweet and juicy

6. Skewer each fruit one by one and serve to guests as soon as possible.

   

   Treat your loved ones with a fragrant rainbow on a skewer

The fruit in the above recipe can be replaced with others without any damage to taste. For example, use canned peaches instead of pineapple, soft pears instead of apples, or raspberries instead of blueberries.

And you should also pay attention to the combinations:

• Banana, kiwi and tangerine. The fruit will need to be peeled, cut the banana and kiwi, cut the tangerine into slices, and then put the whole fragrant company on wooden skewers in any order. All! Sweet, but tinged with light sourness, and therefore an even more delicious dessert is ready.
• Green grapes, kiwi and pineapple. The situation is reversed here: a sweet yellow tropical fruit will soften the sourness of its green neighbors. Those who fail to get a pineapple for the holiday will be replaced by an orange.
• Banana, orange and pear.
• Strawberries and banana.
• Apple, pear, red orange.
• Grapes and melons.

Fruit canapes for lunch - video

Options for serving fruit canapes in the photo

Canapes can be placed on long skewers

Semicircular pieces of tangerines can be represented as sails

So that the skewers do not remain empty, you can offer the guests pieces of fruit separately - let everyone collect their own canapes

The easiest option is to simply fold the canapes upside down.

Even a minimum of ingredients can be played in an interesting way

An unusual combination of basil, watermelon and strawberries will perfectly fix with soft cheese

Top canapes can be garnished with chocolate

What else about fruit canapes? Lot. But why waste time on theory when you can start practicing immediately? New combinations and flavors are just waiting for you to discover them. Choose your favorite fruits and berries, shake up the kitchen cabinets in search of marshmallow, powdered sugar, chocolate and other goodies and go ahead - create a unique canapé according to your own recipe!