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Delicious Christmas Bruschetta are lightly toasted baguette slices with garlic cream cheese spread, tomato, and fresh basil. They are a must-try appetizer this holiday season!
For a fun and festive touch, use alphabet cookie cutters to shape the tomatoes into Santa’s favorite catchphrase – Ho Ho Ho!
You can use grape tomatoes or larger tomatoes, and if you want to save time, swap cream cheese for sundried tomato pesto or basil pesto and top with mozzarella Ho Ho Ho’s instead.
Serve this easy bruschetta recipe throughout December, whether you are hosting a party or need a fun snack.
For other festive appetizers your family and friends will love, don’t miss my snowman burrata, Santa’s hat platter, or snowman skewer-themed salad.
Christmas Bruschetta
Equipment
- alphabet cookie cutters
Ingredients
- 5 slices baguette, toasted
- 10 grape tomatoes
- 2 tablespoons cream cheese, garlic
- fresh basil
- sea salt, to taste
- pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Slice five pieces of bread and stick them in a toaster.
- Halve the grape tomatoes lengthwise and spoon out the pit.
- Place the 'H' and 'O' cookie cutters on the halved tomato (cut-side facing up).
- Use your fingers to pierce the tomato skin against the cookie cutter (you may need to trim the outline with a knife).
- Press the tomato letter out of the cutter.
- Cut any excess pulp off the back of the letters so they can lay flat.
- Continue until you have ten letters of each.
- Spread the cream cheese onto the toasted baguette slices.
- Top with two tomato HO HO’s on each slice and a few fresh basil leaves.
- Sprinkle with sea salt and pepper (balsamic vinegar would be delicious too).
- Serve.
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Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
