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Celebrate any special occasion with these adorable Cherry Tomato Appetizers. They are so easy to make. All you need is cherry tomatoes, bocconcini (mini mozzarella balls), sweet fig jam, and cucumber.

Enjoy these stuffed cherry tomatoes for New Year’s Eve, weddings, black tie events, anniversaries, Valentine’s Day, dinner parties, and birthdays.
When ready to serve, feel free to top them with olive oil and balsamic glaze. You can even replace the fig jam with fresh basil or pesto for a different bite.
For other delightful canapés, check out my potato rosti with smoked salmon, avocado rose bites, and melon skewers.

Cherry Tomato Appetizers
Equipment
Ingredients
- 10 cherry tomatoes
- 10 bocconcini, mini mozzarella balls
- 1 small cucumber
- 1 tablespoon fig jam
- sea salt, to taste
- pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Halve the tomatoes.
- Use a small spoon to scoop the inside flesh.
- Top a small amount of fig jam in each tomato half.
- Halve the bocconcini and place one in each tomato.
- Peel a cucumber.
- Shape the bowtie by hand or use a star-shaped cookie cutter like I did.
- Cut out cucumber peel buttons with a metal straw.
- Arrange the cucumber details on top of the mozzarella balls.
- Sprinkle with sea salt.
- Serve.
Video
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.









