Christmas finger food: 7 festive snacks to imitate

Christmas buffet made easy: These finger food ideas are simple, delicious and have an absolute wow effect on the holiday table.

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“Snackification” is the name of one of the biggest food trends of recent years. And why shouldn’t this also apply to Christmas? Instead of lavish 3-course meals that leave you sitting in the corner, stuffed and motionless, we are now serving up a delicious Christmas buffet. It's just as sociable, but much quicker!

Christmas finger food is suitablefor a cozy Christmas brunch or as an appetizerbefore a classic Christmas dinner. You decide for yourself whether you want to leave room for other dishes or whether you would like to enjoy the many small snacks instead. In bulk, appetizers are sufficient as a stand-alone meal.

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We'll show you here how to do it normallyDecorated for Christmas! Most of the time you just have to give the appetizers a Christmas shape. These can be stars, snowmen or Santa Claus. Our favorite: the Christmas tree. Because it offers a high recognition value and a lot of design freedom horizontally and vertically.

Tipp:A homemade Christmas buffet is the perfect solution to stress during the Christmas season. Each guest simply brings a few appetizer plates with them, so no one has to worry about eating alone. And after all, sharing is an important aspect of Christmas.

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1. Christmas buffet with antipasti

There is no meal more sociable than one. For the Christmas buffet, simply arrange the antipasti in the shape of a Christmas tree - a tapered triangle. Create rows to better separate the individual ingredients and create a nice layered effect.

What you put on the antipasti tree is up to you. For a healthy veggie version you can insteadTake raw food. Cucumber slices, broccoli or other vegetables form the fir green. Cocktail tomatoes, chili pieces, pomegranate seeds or dried cranberries are suitable as edible Christmas tree baubles in festive red.

The poinsettia is a must as a decoration. To do this, you use a suitable cookie shape(here on Amazon)* a star made of cheese. A cracker forms the trunk of your Christmas finger food.

2. Christmas buffet with caprese

A classic appetizer is caprese. Better known as tomato and mozzarella salad. Arranged as a candy cane for Christmas. It's obvious, after all, the color combination of red and white is just right.

Tipp:A nice alternative is to make a Christmas wreath out of tomatoes and mozzarella. To do this, lay out cocktail tomatoes and small mozzarella balls to form a wreath. Sprinkle the whole thing with basil as fir green. Ideal as finger food at an Advent brunch.

3. Christmas buffet with cheese platter

Speaking of Christmas wreaths: make a great deal out of yours! For the Christmas buffet, you can use pre-cut cheese cubes that you arrange in a circle. Red grapes serve as decoration and the fir branches are replaced with fragrant rosemary branches.

Tipp:You can also prepare a fruit salad for dessert in the same way.

4. Christmas buffet with cream cheese dip

The Christmas finger food only tastes really delicious once you eat it. You can also pimp it up to match the Christmas buffet in the shape of a fir tree. To do this, you build a cone out of cream cheese or quark and decorate it all around with fresh herbs and spices.

The dip tree gets a green festive look with chopped chives or basil. Leave individual tips of parsley, thyme or rosemary sticking out to simulate branches. Decorated with berries, mini tomatoes, yellow pepper stars and a garland of almond slivers, your Christmas dip looks good enough to eat.

5. Christmas buffet with ham and fir

You can serve hearty ham and firs as hearty finger food at Christmas. All you need is a roll of ready-made puff pastry from the refrigerated shelf, six slices of cooked ham and cheese in one piece, for example Gouda. Also important: mini star shapes for cutting out(here on Amazon)* and shish kebab skewers for support(here on Amazon)*.

Important:Before baking in the oven, you should soak the wooden skewers in water for an hour so that they don't burn so quickly. Then dry off.

Here's how:Preheat the oven to 200 degrees top/bottom heat and line a tray with baking paper.

Cut out thin strips of puff pastry and cooked ham and place them on top of each other. Place the ham and dough strands onto the skewer to form a snake-shaped Christmas tree. Place dough pieces on the baking tray. Whisk an egg and brush the puff pastry trees with it.

Bake the Christmas finger food for about 12 minutes until the dough turns slightly brown. In the meantime, cut out the cheese stars. As soon as the ham puff pastry trees have cooled a little, you can skewer the stars and serve.

6. Christmas buffet with pesto fir

Vegetarians can feast on crispy ones at the homemade Christmas buffet-Fir trees are happy. You can make either one large tree or several small trees out of the puff pastry. If you want the starter to be vegan, replace the egg at the end with soy cream, which you brush on the dough.

Tipp:You can also use pizza dough instead of puff pastry.

You need these ingredients:

  • 2 packs (270 g each) of puff pastry (refrigerated rack)
  • 1 glass Pesto
  • 1 No

Here's how:

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees top/bottom heat.

Put both Place the puff pastry sheets on top of each other with a layer of baking paper in between and cut them evenly into the shape of a Christmas tree. Then you lift off the first layer of puff pastry. Place the bottom puff pastry on a tray lined with baking paper. Spread the surface of the dough with pesto. Cover with the second layer of puff pastry.

Now cut the branches of the tree into thin strips with a knife - leave the dough intact in the middle, this part forms the tree trunk. Twist the branches by hand. Then brush everything with the beaten egg.

Bake the pesto puff pastry Christmas tree in the oven for a good 15 minutes. Keep an eye on it so that it doesn't get too black.

7. Christmas buffet with pizza fir

Pizza fans create an edible Christmas tree made from pizza balls. To do this, roll small portions of pizza dough (homemade or purchased) into balls and fill them with your choice of cheese, mozzarella or ham. Then drape the pizza pieces into a fir tree, brush with olive oil, garlic and a little salt and put them in the oven.

Sweet Christmas platter for dessert

As with every buffet, dessert cannot be missed at Christmas. Here too, you can make it easy for yourself and serve a sweet plate at the end. You will be served a colorful selection of freshly baked cookies, biscuits, nuts, candy canes and other delicacies.

A nice hot cup of chocolate is enough for dessert. With marshmallows, of course.

With that in mind: Merry Christmas and enjoy your meal!