Hot Sausages and Cheese Dip
 Serve celery and carrot sticks or chunks of cucumber with super Hot sausages and cheese dip. |
 Hot Sausages and Cheese Dip |
Petits Fours
A petit four is a small dainty biscuit, cake or sweet, often decorated or iced. It is usually served at the end of a meal. |
 Petits Fours |
Devils on Horseback
There are two versions of this party piece. One has oysters wrapped in bacon before being cooked, while the other has prunes instead of oysters. The prunes are sometimes cooked in wine, their stuffed with mango chutney or an almond. The addition of hot Tabasco sauce turns Angels of Horseback into little devils. |
 Devils on Horseback |
Mini Paris Brest
This classic French past is meant to resemble the wheel of a bicycle and the name is taken from bicycle race that was in the late 19 th century between the two cities Paris and Brest. |
 Mini Paris Brest |
Chinese Fortune Cookies
This is a small biscuit or cake containing a slip of paper with a horoscope, joke or proverb printed on it. Chinese Americans invented the idea early the 20th century. |
 Chinese Fortune Cookies |
Butterflies
Novelty Butterflies are for children's parties, too. |
 Butterflies |
Carrot Cake
It is an old 18th century idea to use a cheap readily-available vegetable, instead of expensive dried fruit. |
 Carrot Cake |
Sacher Squares
 The original Sacher Torte was a two-layered dense chocolate cake separated by apricot spread and covered with smooth chocolate. Created by Franz Sacher, chief pastrycook to the Austrian statesman Metternich during the Congress of Vienna (1814 - 15), the cake was later the subject of a protracted argument between some of Sacher's descendants and Vienna's famous Demel patisserie as to whether in its true form it had two layers or was just a cake spread with spread and iced. |
 Sacher Squares |
Birthday Cup Cakes
Birthday cup cakes are an A inexpensive and pretty idea for a children's party, when there is no time to decorate a large cake. |
 Birthday Cup Cakes |
Butterfly Cup Cakes
Decorate these butterfly cup cakes with buttercream, using a piping bag with star nozzle. Stand the bag in a jar to fill it. |
 Butterfly Cup Cakes |
Chicken Vol-Au-Vent
Elegant Chicken vol-au-vent is filled with grapes, almonds, cooked chicken and mayonnaise. |
 Chicken Vol-Au-Vent |
Coconut Biscuits
Coconut biscuits look attractive with their spread and coconut topping and glace cherry decoration. |
 Coconut Biscuits |
Chocolate Tops
For a gathering of children, serve Chocolate tops sandwiched with strawberry spread. |
 Chocolate Tops |
Olive and Almond Palmiers
Traditional palmiers are small sweet puff pastry cookies shaped a little like butterflies. Literally the word means 'palm tree' and it is believed their inventor thought the shape was reminiscent of the topknot of leaves on a palm. |
Chocolate Meringue Kisses
Many recipes call for just egg yolks but you don't have to waste the white as it is easily transformed into tempting little sweet meringues. To make them successfully, make sure you bring the egg whites to room temperature, that the bowl and utensils are clean, and be careful when separating the eggs that no yolk slips into the white. |
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