Fancy One Bite Appetizers are made with simple ingredients, and most require no cooking. Wow your guests with these no cook, one bite inexpensive appetizers that are so easy to assemble.
(This post has been updated and was originally published in 2013.)
I don't know about you, but I am tired of cranberries, and sweet potatoes and Brussels sprouts.
I am tired of turkey and maple anything and if I ate ham, probably ham.
Add sugar to this list. I am so sugared out. I never thought I would admit that!
I am almost ready for healthy food but I still have one more event to get through!
Yeah. I know you know what I'm talking about.
The New Year is upon us. We best start preparing now. It's time to strut the stuff and have some fun.
No religion, but a lot of praying...you know the kind of praying that you mumble deep inside, about keeping all those resolutions.
Yeah. I know. We all do it. Right?
This is the year I 'm going to officially lose weight and pay off my bills and believe in myself more.
I'm going to have more strength because I'm going to exercise more.
Yeah. I'm just sayin'...let's do it after we eat some of these simply fancy, one bite appetizers.
My goal is to keep simplifying. That means food, too.
I have a tendency to overdo when I have company over and sometimes get worn out before they even arrive. This has got to change.
Inventing these simply fancy one bite appetizers that require no cooking, is a great way to get the party rolling.
These appetizers are a bit more sophisticated than a dip, which means I have to be a bit more polite when I chow.
Serve these fancy apps to company and they will be amazed that such simple and fairly inexpensive ingredients combine to create one incredible bite!
One bite appetizers are quick to prepare and no cooking involved.
They are easy on your waistline as long as you don't overdue, which I guess is true of most food!
Figure 6-8 per person if it's a cocktail party, and 4-6, if it's a dinner party.
If you are making all 5 of these for a cocktail party of 8; make 12 of each and you will have a few extra. Maybe! But enough math for now!
With food like this it's not hard to be the host or hostess with the mostest!
And if you don't feel like assembling each individually, just place one on a platter and let your guests copy it.
Your pantry creates many opportunities for creativity. Look what you can do with tortilla chips, potato chips and dried fruit.
Take a crostini and add a mini Caesar salad. Take a look and see what you can come up with.
Manservant kept eyeing these plates and asking if this was lunch.
He's not one to let a good thing escape. And neither should you!
Caesar Salad Crostini
Recipe
Caesar Salad Crostini
Description
These Caesar salad crostinis are like mini salads on a giant crouton. No fork required.
Ingredients
12 crostinis (Whole Foods are really good!)
Parmesan Cheese Crisps (Buy or make your own)
Romaine Lettuce (A few leaves cut into a chiffonade or thin ribbons.)
Anchovies (If desired)
Caesar Dollop
2 minced garlic cloves
1T lemon juice or ½ a lemon squeezed
½ t worcestershire sauce
¼ t dijon mustard
¾ t anchovy paste
2 T mayonnaise
3 grinds of black pepper
Parmesan Fricos or Cheese Crisps
2 c of Parmesan Cheese, shredded
Instructions
Caesar Dressing
Combine ingredients until smooth. Use a tiny spoonful on top of lettuce. Or feel free to use your favorite Caesar dressing!
Parmesan Fricos
Preheat oven to 325. Spread 2 c of grated parmesan cheese in a 10" parchment lined square pan. Bake about 15-20 minutes until golden. Let cool and break into random pieces.
Apricot and Blue Cheese Chorizo Bites
Recipe
Apricot and Blue Cheese Chorizo Bites
- Prep Time: 10 Minutes
- Total Time: 10 minutes
- Yield: 12
- Category: Appetizers
- Method: No Cook
- Cuisine: Spanish
Description
Apricot and Blue Cheese Chorizo Bites are sweet and salty and so good!
Ingredients
Instructions
Layer in the listed order of ingredients.
Potato Chip, Goat's Cheese, Chile Jam and Bacon Bites
Recipe
Potato Chip, Goat's Cheese, Red Chile Jam, Bacon Bites
- Prep Time: 10 Minutes
- Total Time: 10 minutes
- Yield: 12 Servings
- Category: Appetizer
- Method: No Cook
- Cuisine: American
Description
Who doesn't love potato chips and bacon? Combined with a bit of cheese and some spicy sweet jam, this is a great appetizer!
Ingredients
Instructions
Layer in the order listed.
Blue Corn Chips with Smoked Salmon and Chile Sauce
Recipe
Blue Corn Chips with Salmon and Chile Sauce
- Prep Time: 10 Minutes
- Total Time: 10 minutes
- Yield: 12 Chips
- Category: Appetizers
- Method: No Bake
- Cuisine: American
Description
These one bite salmon appetizers are perfect for your guests to make or serve them on a fancy tray! What a great way to eat corn chips!
Ingredients
Instructions
Smoked Salmon on a Potato Chip with Caper Sauce
Recipe
Smoked Salmon on a Potato Chip with Caper Sauce
- Prep Time: 10 Minutes
- Total Time: 10 minutes
- Yield: 12 Chips
- Category: Appetizers
- Method: No Cook
- Cuisine: American
Description
Smoked Salmon combined with potato chips and capers is one great appetizer bite!
Ingredients
Instructions
Make your caper sauce and assemble on chip in order listed.
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Love these appetizers Abbe! Especially the smoke salmon on potato chip!
John / Kitchen Riffs says
Good to see this post return! Loads of good ideas here. I'm not yet sugared-out, but getting there. 🙂 Happy Holidays!
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So many great ideas! Love these fancy appetizers!
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I love guac and chips
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I like buffalo wings.
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Spinach artichoke dip with chips.
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My favorite appetizer is mini spanikopitas.
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Out of these appetizers my favorite is the Cranberry Chipotle Wonton Cups, I might have to try that one soon, it looks yummy!
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I think my favorite would be the Sausage Pizza Baguettes. 🙂
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my favorite appetizer is loaded baked potatoes
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The smoked salmon on a potato chip look interesting.
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My favorite appetizer is Cheddar Ale Spread with celery and pretzels.
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I love the Blue Corn Chips with Salmon and Chile Sauce.
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I love stuffed Jalapenos wrapped with Bacon
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My favorite is chicken livers wrapped in bacon.
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My favorite appetizer is spinach dip stuffed mushrooms!
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I like the Caesar Salad Crostini. Thank you
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my favorite appetizer is lil smokies wrapped in bacon, sprinkled with brown sugar and baked. YUM
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i like spinach dip and french bread!
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My favorite appetizer is spinach dip with sourdough bread
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My favorite is Devils on Horseback, oysters wrapped in bacon and broiled.
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These look great - thanks for sharing (and letting me enter) LOL - saving this page - but my fav is a treat - we make a mini chocolate banana cream pie in our mini muffin pans - yum!
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My favorite appetizer is bruschetta toasts! 🙂
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My favorite are potato skins
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My favorite bite is a mini caprese bite. A cherry tomato, mozerella slice with a basil leaf on top.
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I would love to try the Potato Chip with Candied Bacon, Goat Cheese and Red Chile Jelly
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Spinach & Artichoke dip is yummy.
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I like buffalo chicken dip on Triscuits.
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We make a layered nacho dip for our own apps. Usually beans, meat chili, salsa, cheese
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Laura Dembowski says
Love the Cesar salad bite! Good luck with all your goals this year - I know you'll accomplish them all!
Chilebrown says
Apricot, Blue Cheese and Chorizo Bites would be my choice.
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That is some light appetizers, sounds awesome.
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My go to app is a great cheese plate. I love your Potato Chip/Bacon/Goat Cheese/ Red Chile Bites app though! Looks delicious.
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NancyC says
Yum! These appetizers all look so good! I think I have a new favorite appetizer–the Caesar Salad Crostini–I can tell I would love it just by looking at the photo! 🙂
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I love spinach and artichoke dip!
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Fave app is falafel bites 🙂
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A VERY VERY HAPPY & PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR 2014 !!! 🙂
Katie says
these all look amazing and so professional! i think the Blue Corn Chip with Salmon and a Sweet Chili Dollop is my favorite!
Pam says
Great appetizers! I make mushroom puffs and sweet and salty cheese spread.
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Happiest of New Years to you!
I'm totally using that caesars salad on crostini.
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Just a new bloom spreads fragrance and freshness around...
May the new year add a new beauty and freshness into our lives.
Happy New Year.
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I want to try the Smoked Salmon on a Potato Chip with a Caper Sauce. I normally do not like cooked salmon so I would try it with raw salmon!
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I love making fresh salsa and pouring over cream cheese with some tortilla chips
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I like your idea with salmon. I usually end up making stuffed mushrooms.
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I love buffalo chicken wing dip!!
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Thanks for the ideas!
Juliana says
Yum! These are great appetizers...love them all...
Happy New Year Abbe 😀
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Potato Chip/Bacon/Goat Cheese/ Red Chile Bites are my favorite from this post!! Yum!!
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I love artichoke dip!
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ChgoJohn says
These are a great set of appetizers, Abbe, offering a nice variety of flavors. None are that difficult to prepare, which is really important for me when it's party time. I'm drawn to appetizers that mix salty and sweet, gorgonzola and honey being a favorite combo.
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Becca says
My favorite appetizer is my mom's Spinach Artichoke dip. It uses a bottle of alfredo sauce which I think makes it taste better than any other recipe!
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All these recipes look delicious. I especially love the Potato Chip/Bacon/Goat Cheese/ Red Chile Bites.
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I hear you on simplifying! What great ideas for easy appetizers. I'm going to file these away for the next time we have company 🙂
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Pamela @ Brooklyn Farm Girl says
Beautiful appetizers, would impress any party guest!
Winnie says
The Caesar Salad Crostini is definitely my favorite!
I'd eat it any time - looks perfect for my 🙂
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Terri says
I would like to try the potato chip, bacon and goat cheese appetizer. My favorite is spinach artichoke dip with wheat crackers.
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The apricots are calling my name! I don't live in the US but good luck to those who do!
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I like to make potato skins for appetizers.
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Bam's Kitchen says
Fantastic little appetizer round up! I would love to try one of each as they sound simple but yet so delicious and perfect way to salute off 2013. Happy New Years to you. BAM
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Denise L says
My favorite appetizer if veggies & curry dip, but that Caesar salad crostini looks amazing!
Yi Reservation says
Abbe, these dishes are so inspiring. I know what you mean by sugared out and I am on the same boat. I like all five bites but my vote will to go the bacon and goat cheese with chips!
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Holy shizz Abbe - those all look amazing!! My favorite appetizer was at a restaurant I worked at as an Assistant Manager - I could eat whatever I wanted - including filet mignon, but I always got the baked goat cheese appetizer over proscuitto and a balsamic glaze - so good!
Lea Ann (Cooking On The Ranch) says
I'm tired of ham. 🙂 I really playing favorite to that potato chip/candied bacon thing. Great line up, they all look good. And I agree, I tend to overdo when company has been invited. Simplify is my new mantra also. Happy New Year Abbe. Let's make a NY Resolution that we should meet in person ... I mean really, we live so close.
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My favorite appetizer is smoked salmon canapes with pumpernickel rounds.
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I love the potato chip...candied bacon.
Karen Harris says
Hi Abbe! I live just down the road in Castle Pines. I hope we can meet up sometime! Your appetizer ideas look great!
Barb | Creative Culinary says
Favorite hmm?? SO hard to choose. I would say for casual it's a bacon wrapped pretzel that is dipped into a mixture of brown sugar and cayenne before baking. SO good.
For something nicer I sure do love brie that's been topped with fruit and brown sugar and wrapped in phyllo dough before baking. I could eat the whole thing!
I love some of your simple bites because you really shouldn't overdo it so much so that you can't enjoy company...it's he chatting I love even more than the food! 🙂
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*sigh* ..you make potato chips look so elegant and heavenly ♥ Happy Holidays, Abbe! ^.^
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I love appetisers but never make appetisers, people I have over always want food! But I sure do like your selection of apps. I like spinach and artichoke dips and wings, and polenta circles with stuff on top and so on. I think I follow you on everything 🙂
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The Potato Chip/Bacon/Goat Cheese/ Red Chile Bites look delicious! I love most anything with goat cheese
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A wonderful collection of appetizers, Abbe.
Happy happy New Year!
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amkj2002 says
One of my favorite appetizers is dates wrapped with prosciutto and stuffed with goat cheese. Yum!
Kitchen Riffs says
You have a ton of good ideas here! I'm always looking for appetizer ideas - I tend to like these much more than main courses (main courses have too much of the same flavor, whereas with appetizers you get to change flavors with every bite - bliss!). Does it count for anything in the giveaway if I already subscribe? 😉 Getting simple (you know what I mean!) is a great New Year's resolution. One I should make. Fun eats - thanks.
Lisa Weidknecht says
I love to make little Sausage Pizza Baguettes for appetizers.
Pam Hoffman says
I think my favorite would be the Smoked Salmon on a Potato Chip with a Caper Sauce. Sounds like a winner!