I love making finger sandwiches for events, holidays, school functions, brunches!
They are such easy fun festive ways to celebrate all your party needs.
Whenever you want to impress someone at any function, as long as you have the right cookie cutter, you can really put a smile on the kids and young-at-heart faces.
Easy to make and fun to eat!
From cute little Valentine's Day all year long holidays to Christmas, just get some cute little cutters for these little sandwiches.
They really go fast at any party function.
I make them every year on Halloween with pumpkins and ghosts and then 4th of July with star cutters and make fillings to match the theme of the holiday.
Christmas filled with red and green ideas.
Get creative, I will give you plenty of filling ideas, you just need to get the right cookie cutters for that holiday, party, or school event theme!
Great Ideas!
Perfect for a shower or wedding too! Check out the many sandwich-filling ideas I have below.
Great little picnic sandwiches for the beach and entertaining guests just for a quick afternoon snack!
Great Creative with Cookie Cutter Festive Ideas
I don't know what is more fun, making these Holiday tea sandwiches or eating them!
I just love coming up with new ideas for any party, event or even for just my significant other and I when relaxing at night.
Kick back and make a few finger sandwiches that are the perfect pick food any time of the day.
Any Event Fun Sandwiches
Then baby showers, weddings,s and other shapes using wedding bells and I used boy and girl gingerbread men for the baby shower.
Really get creative. Start collecting cookie cutters. These are always great fun to make and the hit at every function.
Impressive little sandwiches!
Great for that last-minute idea to bring along that will make everyone say how creative you are.
These can be the hit of any party, function, shower, wedding or fundraiser.
Great for fundraisers!
I have made just about every shape with a cookie cutter there is from any Holiday theme, school football sandwich cutters.
Breast cancer awareness month fundraisers emblems to a St. Patrick's Day party.
Just find the cookie cutters you need and make this a smash hit at any event or party!
Really Anything Goes!
Seriously, the filling can be easy!
Ham salad, chicken salad, fruits, and cream cheese, as simple as lettuce tomato and bacon, cookie spreads, Nutella, peanut butter and jelly, cream cheese with nuts and honey, the list goes on and one!
You just need to get creative.
Even using leftover chicken is great adding barbecue sauce or hot sauce!
Fun for School Lunches and More!
- use school book cookie cutters
- cut into animal shapes for preschoolers
- whatever holiday is current, using a cookie cutter to match the day IE: Valentine's Day then on to St. Patrick's Day, 4th of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc.
- tint the filling by adding condiments or crushed herbs
- just boil up some chicken quickly and make barbecued chicken, chicken salad, hot sauce chicken, or just mix with some ranch dressing
- use spinach dip for the filling during St. Patrick's Day, a festive filling all green!
Kids Love to Make these too!
I also love to use my cookie cutters to make animal shapes for the kids when they want grilled cheese or their favorite fillings, like tuna or egg salad. This is perfect for school lunches too.
During the game day season, I also have football cookie cutters, round cutters for baseballs and decorate them with the team theme colors and fill them with the guy's favorite, pulled shredded pork.
Getting creative with colorful foods is so much fun. I always use strawberries or raspberries for Valentine's Day. St. Patrick's Day is easy filling them with arugula and tinted egg salad that's green.
It's perfect little finger foods, especially for any kind of gathering you may have.
I like to use blueberries for the 4th of July.
Halloween is so much fun doing pumpkins, ghosts, and other cookie-cutter shapes.
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More Ideas
Turkey breast chopped fine to add some mayo or ranch dressing to moisten
Chicken chopped adding peppercorn ranch dressing, raisins, diced apples
Turkey and cranberry sauce
Pulled pork
Peanut butter and jelly
Nutella
Spinach Dip spread
Bacon chopped tomato and mayo
Egg Salad using chopped boiled eggs and mayo
Tuna Salad using canned tuna, mayo, and some chopped black olives
Ham Salad using chopped ham, chopped pineapple, and mayo
Pepperoni, Capicola, Mortadella all chopped together in small pieces add some Italian dressing and shredded lettuce
Cream cheese spread on the bread and add canned drained crab meat or baby shrimp
Tomato or Basil pesto (really festive for Holiday or Christmas!
Metal cookie cutters work the best Pick out whatever holiday theme you need to use.
Cut shapes and fill with filling suggestions above.
St. Patricks Day: Shamrock Cookie Cutter
Halloween: Pumpkin Cookie Cutter, Witch, Bat, Ghost
Birthday: Use a favorite Character Cookie Cutter
Christmas: Use a tree, star, snowman, gingerbread man
Holiday Tea Sandwiches
Holiday Tea Sandwiches are so much fun to make! Little finger sandwiches decorated to the holiday or event theme with filling recipes. Start a collection of holiday themes to make these festive sandwiches!
Prep time: 5 MinInactive time: 15 MinTotal time: 20 Min
Ingredients
- Filling Suggestions:
- Turkey breast chopped fine then add some mayo or ranch dressing to moisten
- Chicken chopped adding peppercorn ranch dressing, raisins, diced apples
- Turkey and cranberry sauce
- Pulled pork
- Peanut butter and jelly
- Nutella
- Egg Salad using chopped boiled eggs and mayo
- Tuna Salad using canned tuna, mayo, and some chopped black olives
- Ham Salad using chopped ham, chopped pineapple, and mayo
- Pepperoni, Capicola, and Mortadella chopped together in small pieces add some Italian dressing and shredded lettuce
- Cream cheese spread on the bread and add canned drained crab meat or baby shrimp
- Tomato or Basil pesto (really festive for Holiday or Christmas
- Chopped meats with mayonnaise
- Deli corned beef with sauerkraut and thousand island dressing
- Mini Chopped hotdogs with relish
- Mini hamburgers with condiments
- For Sweeter Sandwich ideas for Baby Showers, Wedding, and other functions:
- Cream cheese mixed with fruits IE strawberries sliced, blueberries, raspberries, crushed pineapple, minced fig, or dates
- Cream cheese with chopped pecans, finely chopped pistachios, or sunflower seeds for nut allergies
- Cream cheese with added vegetable soup mix and a little mayonnaise add various chopped
- Nutella with hazelnuts and marshmallows
- Banana and Nutella
- celery, garlic minced, tomatoes, cucumbers. Mix with the cream cheese add the vegetables spread sandwiches and add shredded lettuce or arugula.
- Garnishes with fruits, olives,grape tomatoes, pickles, radish flowers
Instructions
- To assemble simple cookie-cutter finger sandwiches:
- Use any soft bread and any cookie cutters.
- Place on a cutting board and cut out the shapes desired.
- You can leave the bread soft or lightly toast it.
- Add your favorite filling.
- Garnish with fruits, olives, or coordinating food garnishes.
- Optional: all cream cheese can be color-tinted to the theme of
- the party or holiday with food coloring.
- Decorate with decorative flags theme toothpicks, colored plastic
- party picks, olives, use mini appetizer cookie cutters,
- fruit cutout for the centers of the finger sandwiches
- using pineapple or melons.
- You can also garnish with dried herbs
- For Christmas paprika sprinkled on toasted, freshly chopped
- parsley or fresh rosemary makes a beautiful garnish.
- Ham Sandwich Spread Recipe:
- 1 pound of black forest deli sliced ham (or use honey ham)
- 1/2 teaspoon of Dijon or yellow mustard
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1 1/2 tablespoons chopped sweet-style pickles
- 2 teaspoons of the juice from the pickles
- 4 tablespoons mayonnaise ( or more if you like it a little less thick)
- salt, and pepper to taste
- 1 teaspoon granulated garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon mixed Italian herbs
- Place the ham in the food processor with all the ingredients and pulse several times until the desired spreadable consistency forms. Spread on bread. Garnish with arugula, olives, pickles, or grape tomatoes.
- Store leftovers in the refrigerator.
Notes
St. Patrick's Day: Shamrock Cookie Cutter
Halloween: Pumpkin Cookie Cutter, Witch, Bat, Ghost
Birthday: Use a favorite Character Cookie Cutter
Christmas: Use a tree, star, snowman, gingerbread man
Valentine's Day: heart shapes
Patriotic: Star shape
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