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Grapes are a refreshing fruit that you can pair with pungent cheeses for a savory appetizer.
Grapes can be roasted in the oven to release their flavorful juices, and then placed on top of crostini’s, or even baked brie for a specialty piping hot grape appetizer.
Try making one of these memorable grape appetizers for your next party!
Pistachio Grape Cheese Appetizer
Pistachio grape cheese appetizer is served with a toothpick piercing the grapes and cheese. It makes for easy serving and eating with minimal mess.
Each of the grapes are covered in a savory cream cheese (Boursin) layer until they are fully encased.. You could make your own herbed cream cheese if you like.
The cream cheese grape is pierced with a toothpick, and then rolled in chopped pistachios.
You can make the grape appetizer ahead of time, and place it in the fridge until you’re ready to serve.
The grapes are roasted in the oven with a bit of olive oil, thyme, salt and pepper until they burst in the oven and release their juices.
After the grapes come out of the oven, they are drizzled with balsamic vinegar for a bit of an acidic finish.
The crostini is assembled by putting a thin layer of goat cheese on top of the crostini, a layer of roasted grapes, and then topping with chopped up walnuts.
Honey is drizzled on top of the crostini for a sweeter finish.
Fontina cheese is cut into cubes, and then is marinated with olive oil, sundried tomatoes, garlic cloves, red pepper sprigs of rosemary, and Italian seasoning.
The cheese is marinated overnight in the fridge to absorb the herb flavorings.
When you’re ready to assemble the skewers, place a cube of cheese, a grape, and repeat until the skewer is full.
Sweet potato rounds are baked in the oven with a bit of olive oil until the edges are crispy.
Grapes are roasted at the same time on a separate pan with olive oil drizzled on top.
The grapes will burst and release their juices with the olive oil.
Assemble the appetizer by placing a sweet potato round on a plate. Top with some goat cheese, roasted grapes, toasted pecans, a sprinkle of dried thyme, and a generous amount of honey.
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Baked appetizers are served warm, right out of the oven for a tasty savory appetizer.
Some baked appetizers can be prepared ahead of time, and then placed in the oven right before your guests arrive.
You can even serve your baked appetizers in the same dish you baked them in, and then place them on a cutting board for serving. It saves you from having to plate the appetizer.
Try making one of these mouthwatering baked appetizers for your next party or get together!
Pesto Sundried Tomato Baked Brie
Baked brie is a classic appetizer your guests will love!
Add more flavor to it by covering the brie in fresh pesto and sundried tomatoes.
Bake it in the oven until the cheese has completely melted through.
Slices of mozzarella cheese and sundried tomatoes are arranged over the flatbread and then it’s baked in the oven.
After the flatbread comes out of the oven, more fresh pesto is spooned onto the flatbread. This gives the flatbread more of a burst of pesto flavor for this savory appetizer.
Sausage, Apple and Gruyere Pinwheels
Sausage pinwheels are made using puff pastry, making these sausage appetizers a decent size.
Ground pork sausage is cooked in a frying pan with a few diced onions. The pork needs to be broken up into small pieces while it’s cooking.
Diced apples and sage are added to the pan, and cooked until the apples are fork tender.
The puff pastry is rolled out, and the sausage mixture sprinkled throughout the puff pastry. The layer of sausage should be fairly thin.
Grated gruyere cheese is sprinkled on top of the sausage, and the puff pastry is rolled into a log.
The log is cut into sections to make the sausage pinwheels.
The puff pastry will have a nice sheen to it with an egg wash. Brush beaten egg over every surface of the puff pastry.
Bake the pinwheels in the oven until the pastry has turned a golden brown, and serve warm, right out of the oven.
Hawaiian BBQ Chicken Flatbread
Hawaiian BBQ chicken flatbread is a savory appetizer that is tasty hot out of the oven, or chilled and made ahead of time. You can always warm it up in the oven a couple of minutes before your guests come over.
Flatbread dough takes only an hour to make, and most of it is rising time. You can take the time when it’s rising to prepare your flatbread toppings.
Hawaiian BBQ chicken is made by using BBQ sauce in place of the pizza sauce. I know, it’s a bit weird, but trust me… It’s incredible.
The chicken has a Cajun spice mixture rubbed on it, and grilled. The chicken is cut into bite sized pieces, and arranged on top of the flatbread.
Shredded mozzarella cheese, red onions, and pieces of pineapple are added as toppings, and the flatbread is baked in the oven.
Once it comes out of the oven, fresh cilantro leaves are sprinkled on top.
Ground sausage is cooked and broken up into small pieces. Place the drained sausage into a bowl with cream cheese and parmesan cheese. Mix them together, and this will be your filling for your jalapenos.
Wear gloves when cutting the jalapenos, then you won’t risk getting it in your eye!
Cut the jalapenos lengthwise, removing the seeds and membrane from the jalapeno.
Stuff the jalapenos by spooning the filling into each of the hollowed out jalapenos.
Bake them in the oven until the cheese is bubbling and brown.
Large white mushrooms need to have their stems removed, and hollowed out. Once you have them all arranged and ready to be stuffed, you can start making the filling.
The filling is made with cooked Italian sausage pieces, cream cheese, mozzarella cheese, onion powder, minced garlic, and chives.
The mushrooms are stuffed with the filling, and topped with a more mozzarella cheese.
The stuffed mushrooms can bake in the oven until the cheese is bubbling and brown. Serve immediately.
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You can serve corn appetizers at a summer BBQ, birthday party, or family get together.
Savory corn appetizers include cheesy corn dip, corn satay with peanut sauce, corn fritters, corn salsa, flatbread, and deviled eggs.
Try making one of these tasty appetizers for your next summer patio party!
Corn Salsa
Corn salsa is a sweet and spicy salsa. You can serve corn salsa with warmed tortilla chips. Just toss a few on a baking sheet and bake in the oven for 5 minutes at 350 degrees F.
Corn salsa is made with corn, finely chopped jalapenos, red onions, and bell pepper.
A little bit of freshly minced garlic, lime juice, cumin, chili pepper and fresh cilantro leaves are the spices that are added to the savory corn salsa appetizer to create the tangy flavoring.
Baby Corn Satay
Baby corn satay can be served with creamy peanut sauce for a delicious savory corn appetizer.
Baby corn is marinated in a yogurt, mixed with corn flour, turmeric powder, garam masala, chili powder, and minced garlic.
The baby corn is cooked over the stovetop, and then skewered for easy serving and dipping.
Serve warm with peanut sauce.
Corn Deviled Eggs
Corn deviled eggs are a vibrantly colored corn appetizer that can be prepared ahead of time.
Corn deviled eggs are made by making boiled eggs, cutting them in half, and removing the cooked egg yolks into the small bowl.
The eggs yolks are mashed and combined with mayonnaise, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce, and feta cheese.
The egg mixture is piped back into the halved white of the egg.
Garnish with chopped up red onions, corn, chili powder, and fresh cilantro leaves.
Jalapeno Corn Dip
Jalapeno corn dip is a cream cheese based dip that’s cooked in the slow cooker, and served with tortilla chips or corn chips for dipping.
Jalapeno corn dip is made by combining cream cheese, sour cream, finely chopped jalapeno, jack cheese, and corn in the slow cooker and cooking on low for 2 hours.
Remove from the slow cooker and mixed with bacon bits. Top the corn appetizer with more bacon bits, fresh cilantro leaves, queso fresco, and a squeeze of fresh lime juice.
Serve jalapeno corn dip with tortilla chips, pita chips, celery sticks or carrots for dipping.
Corn Fritters
Corn fritters can be made ahead of time, and warmed up right before serving.
You can serve corn fritters with avocado cilantro dip, spicy mayo, ketchup, or ranch dressing.
Corn fritters are made by combining corn, chickpea flour, rice flour, finely chopped onions together to make the base of the fritter.
Minced garlic, onion garlic salt, cayenne pepper are added to the fritters for a spicy garlic flavoring.
The fritters are formed into flattened balls to make the fritter shape.
The fritters are baked in the oven and garnished with a few fresh chives or parsley.
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Pineapple appetizers have the juicy, tangy, refreshing flavor of pineapple.
Pineapple appetizers can be grilled on the BBQ, making the pineapple have a crispy texture to it.
You can make lots of different appetizers using pineapple as the base, like flatbread, sweet pineapple coconut dip, cheese ball, salsa, and baked brie.
Try making your own pineapple appetizers at home for your next summer BBQ!
Hawaiian BBQ Chicken Flatbread
Hawaiian BBQ chicken flatbread is a savory appetizer that is tasty hot out of the oven, or chilled and made ahead of time. You can always warm it up in the oven a couple of minutes before your guests come over.
Flatbread dough takes only an hour to make, and most of it is rising time. You can take the time when it’s rising to prepare your flatbread toppings.
Hawaiian BBQ chicken is made by using BBQ sauce in place of the pizza sauce. I know, it’s a bit weird, but trust me… It’s incredible.
The chicken has a Cajun spice mixture rubbed on it, and grilled. The chicken is cut into bite sized pieces, and arranged on top of the flatbread.
Shredded mozzarella cheese, red onions, and pieces of pineapple are added as toppings, and the flatbread is baked in the oven.
Once it comes out of the oven, fresh cilantro leaves are sprinkled on top.
Pineapple and Watermelon Salsa
Pineapple and Watermelon salsa is a refreshing salsa you can serve with tortilla chips on a hot summer day for a delicious pineapple appetizer.
Pineapple salsa is filled with pieces of mango, red onions, and cilantro which makes it have a ton of vibrant colors. It’s best if you make it the same day as when you plan to serve it. Fresh is best!
Jalapeno honey glaze is made by dicing a jalapeno into very tiny pieces. Honey, cinnamon, lime juice and salt are added to the jalapeno pieces for the glaze.
The glaze is brushed onto the pineapple right before grilling, and right after to make it have as much sweet and spicy flavor as possible!
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Sausage appetizers can be made with a few different types of sausages including Italian sausage or Andouille sausage.
You can make sausage appetizers like stuffed mushrooms, stuffed jalapenos, spicy Italian sausage dip, spinach and sausage dip, phyllo cups, or wonton cups.
Try making one of these savory sausage appetizers for your next BBQ or party.
Large white mushrooms need to have their stems removed, and hollowed out. Once you have them all arranged and ready to be stuffed, you can start making the filling.
The filling is made with cooked Italian sausage pieces, cream cheese, mozzarella cheese, onion powder, minced garlic, and chives.
The mushrooms are stuffed with the filling, and topped with a more mozzarella cheese.
The stuffed mushrooms can bake in the oven until the cheese is bubbling and brown. Serve immediately.
Ground sausage is cooked and broken up into small pieces. Place the drained sausage into a bowl with cream cheese and parmesan cheese. Mix them together, and this will be your filling for your jalapenos.
Wear gloves when cutting the jalapenos, then you won’t risk getting it in your eye!
Cut the jalapenos lengthwise, removing the seeds and membrane from the jalapeno.
Stuff the jalapenos by spooning the filling into each of the hollowed out jalapenos.
Bake them in the oven until the cheese is bubbling and brown.
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Pickles are a tangy food you can make delicious savory appetizers with.
You can make pickle dips, bacon wrapped pickles, pickle “boats”, pickle bites, or Cuban fries for your next pickle appetizer.
Dill Pickle Hummus
Dill pickle hummus has a hint of pickle undertone in hummus. You can serve hummus with pita bread, raw vegetables, bread, or crackers.
Dill pickle hummus is made by combining chick peas, tahini, lemon juice, garlic powder, diced dill pickles, diced onions, and dill weed in a food processor.
You can thin out the hummus with a bit of water. Garish by drizzling some olive oil on top, with a bit of paprika, and parsley.
Dill pickle cheese ball is flavored with lemon juice, fresh dill weed, and garlic powder for a tangy flavor to the cheese ball.
Finely chopped dill pickles, and freshly grated sharp cheddar cheese are added to the cheese ball to make this cheesy dill flavored cheese ball.
Dill Pickle Dip
Dill pickle dip is a creamy, tangy dip you can dip chips, raw vegetables or crackers into.
Dill pickle dip is made by having a sour cream and cream cheese base. Onion powder, dill pickles, and parsley add earthy and tangy flavors for a delicious savory pickle appetizer.
Pickles and ham are placed in a food processor and combined together.
The ham and pickle mixture is combined with cream cheese, and a bit of garlic powder.
The cream cheese mixture is spread onto a tortilla.
The tortilla is rolled up, and then carefully cut into sections to create the pinwheel.
Tuna Pickle Boats
Tuna pickle boats are a pickle appetizer you can make ahead of time, and place them in the fridge until you’re ready to serve them.
Tuna pickle boats are made by slicing a pickle lengthwise, and then hollowing out the insides of the pickle.
The insides are diced, and placed in bowl with mayo, diced red onions, tuna, and a bit of honey. The mixture is combined, and then spooned back into the pickle “boat”.
Reuben Pickle Bites
Reuben pickle bites are a stacked pickle appetizer that’s held together with a toothpick.
Reuben pickle bites are made by placing using a toothpick to hold together:
pickle slice (round slice)
corned beef
square toasted piece of the bread
swiss cheese
spoonful of spiced mayo
pickle sliced (round slice)
Serve immediately, as the toast can become hard from sitting, or too soggy from the sauce drenching it.
Cuban Fries
Cuban fries taste like you’re eating a Cuban sandwich, in fry form!
Cuban fries are made by adding diced ham, and chopped up pickles on top of the fries.
Cuban fries are drizzled with homemade creamy swiss cheese sauce.
To top off the fries, and a little yellow mustard, and serve!
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Fresh pesto can be used to create mesmerizing appetizers to wow your guests!
Pesto is a savory sauce that works well to create chef worthy appetizers like bruschetta, twisted cheese bread, flatbread, baked brie and more!
Pesto Bread Appetizer
Pesto bread appetizer is a cheese bread that you can pull apart, or cut and serve in sections.
Pesto bread appetizer is a twisted bread in the shape of a circle. It’s an appetizer that catches your eye because it looks quite unique, yet it’s easy to make.
Pesto bread made by creating a dough, and then filling it with fresh pesto and parmesan cheese.
It’s best served warm right out of the oven.
Pesto Sundried Tomato Baked Brie
Baked brie is a classic appetizer your guests will love!
Add more flavor to it by covering the brie in fresh pesto and sundried tomatoes.
Bake it in the oven until the cheese has completely melted through.
Slices of mozzarella cheese and sundried tomatoes are arranged over the flatbread and then it’s baked in the oven.
After the flatbread comes out of the oven, more fresh pesto is spooned onto the flatbread. This gives the flatbread more of a burst of pesto flavor for this savory appetizer.
Caprese Pesto Crostini
Caprese pesto crostini’s are made by marinating cherry tomatoes and fresh mozzarella with dried basil leaves and olive oil.
Once you’ve made your crostini’s and they have cooled, fresh pesto is spread on the crostini.
Mozzarella slices and cherry tomatoes are placed on top of the layer of pesto.
Finally, the pesto appetizer is topped with freshly chopped basil leaves, parmesan cheese, and balsamic glaze.
Tomato Pesto Bruschetta
Make a fresh batch of pesto, the flavor is much more powerful and fragrant than store bought.
Dice a tomato with a little bit of onion. Mix the pesto together with the tomatoes and onions.
Spoon the tomato pesto mixture on top of fresh baguette rounds and grate parmesan cheese on top. Toast for a couple of minutes for the cheese to warm up.
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Sophisticated appetizers are high end appetizers for parties that you want to be striking for your guests.
You only need to spend about 20 minutes preparing each of the following appetizers.
Feel free to add your own touch to the appetizers – red pepper jelly, Thai basil, fig jam, etc.
The most important thing to remember, is the presentation of your appetizers.
Place them on a clean white place to let the colors of appetizer pop through. Serving them on a colored or “busy” plate will take away from their eye catching look to them.
People eat with their eyes first, then their mouths.
Each of the appetizers have powerful flavors that will take your breath away.
Pesto bread appetizer is twisted bread with fresh parmesan cheese and pesto.
It’s best to use fresh pesto for your pesto bread appetizer. Fresh pesto has much more flavor and is less oily than store bought.
Pesto bread appetizer is a tasty, cheesy bread that can be sliced to serve as an appetizer. It’s unique shape and incredible flavor will be sure to impress your guests.
You can make a cheese ball in about 20 minutes, plus time for it to chill in the fridge ~1 hour.
The cheese ball base is made of cream cheese. Worcester sauce, fresh parsley, garlic powder, oregano, green onions, salt and pepper are added to the cream cheese base and are mixed together using a hand mixer.
Finally, the cheese is added to make the cheese ball.
To finish off the outer layer of the cheese ball, it is rolled in walnuts.
Serve the cheese ball with crackers or bread.
Cheese balls are a popular appetizer that are a specialty food usually served at Christmas parties.
What are fancy appetizers called
Fancy appetizers are called hors d’oeuvres. Hors d’oeuvres refers to a light snack served prior to a meal. Specialty appetizers are served at cocktail hour for a wedding, or during a elegant evening party.
Make your own quick elegant appetizers that will mesmerize your guests with flavor and presentation.
You don’t need to spend a ton of time making appetizers that will be impressive to your guests.
All of the appetizers listed above take about 20 minutes to prepare, and will astound your guests.
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Outdoor parties are a go to nowadays, and are perfect for the summertime.
Outdoor parties are much more fun anyways because you can do so many more things like have a water gun fight!!
Parties being held outside don’t need a ton of decorations, just a few pops of color and a few signs to make it extra special.
Keep in mind the space your working with when selecting decorations. If you have tree branches, fence posts to work with, these will work well for hanging lights and lanterns. If you’re more limited with hanging decorations outside for your party, consider having a few floral bouquets and a banner instead.
Outdoor party entertainment ideas for adults
Bubble soccer
Bubble soccer is when each party attendee runs around in a giant inflatable ball. You pass the ball and try to score just like playing soccer, but this time you may have people that try to knock you over to get the ball. This sport can be dangerous, so be aware that injuries may occur.
Giant Jenga is the fun of Jenga that you had as a kid, but this time it’s over 4 feet tall when you build it. It’s much more terrifying when the Jenga is almost as tall as you, and has the risk of falling.
Squirt Guns
Squirt guns are a fun game to play in the backyard on a hot summer’s day. The one who ends up the driest wins! Make sure to remind your guests to bring a change of clothes before partaking!
Get as close to the marker as possible by rolling the heavy balls like bowling on grass. It’s much more difficult than it sounds, especially if the ground isn’t flat! The more balls that are closer to the marker is the winner of the game!
Croquet
Croquet is played by setting up small wire checkpoints in the grass. A hand held mallet is held and is used to hit a heavy ball through the wire checkpoints. You can purposefully knock your opponents ball far from the wickets if you wish to which just adds to the fun.
Badminton
Even if you don’t have a net to put up, playing badminton in the backyard is a ton of fun and a good workout!
Outdoor party decoration ideas for adults
Lanterns
Paper lanterns look beautiful hanging on tree branches for an outdoor party. You could also hang them on the fence posts.
Fairy lights look beautiful in the backyard at an outdoor party in the evening. It will give the outdoor party mood lighting and make it have a romantic feel to it.
Glow lights are inflatable and can be tossed around in a pool. They glow 1 light color at a time, and can be changed into any other color to make it fit the theme of your party. Glow lights look beautiful in the evening outside to give your party a bit of a color pop.
You can get an inflatable palm tree cooler for your outdoor party that will act as a decoration and as a drink holder. Fill the bottom of the palm tree with ice, then top with your favorite beverages to make them stay cold.
Outdoor birthday party decoration ideas for adults
Happy Birthday Sign
Happy Birthday sign’s are colorful way to add a bit of decoration to your party. You can even make your own signs using poster board and markers.
Balloon Arch
Put together your own balloon arch for a beautiful decoration to add to your outdoor birthday party.
Birthday Gnome Signs
You can place Happy Birthday Gnome signs in your yard. There’s a couple different styles including one gnome with a cake, a sign, gifts, or balloons.
Flowers
Add a couple of fresh bouquets of flowers around your outdoor party on tables or side tables to give the party more of a touch of color. The guest of honor can also take them home as a gift at the end of the night.
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