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These Cucumber Cream Cheese Bites are so easy to make with crackers, cream cheese, and cucumber slices shaped like angels.
I make these easy cucumber appetizers every year, serving them as part of holiday grazing tables alongside other fun appetizers like my Christmas grazing platter, Christmas cheese platter, and Christmas party dip.
However, they’re such a hit with family and friends that they’re also requested for graduations, baby showers, and gatherings. I simply swap the cucumber angels with cucumber rounds, and they’re perfect for any time of year. Add them to your next party menu, and your guests are sure to eat them all!
Recipe Tip
Savory, refreshing, and quick to prepare, they’re a great addition to holiday platters.
Cucumber Cream Cheese Bites Ingredients
- Crackers: Use your favorite square or round crackers.
- Garlic cream cheese: Any cream cheese will work. I love a flavorful garlic-and-herb cream cheese.
- Cucumber: You’ll need a snack cucumber to make the faces and a Persian or English cucumber for the body.
- Yellow pepper: For the halos. Use a snack-sized pepper or a bell pepper. You only need a small piece. Chop up the remaining pepper to serve as a snack or add it to your next salad.
- Chia seeds: For the eyes and mouth.
- Sea salt & pepper: To balance all the flavors.
How to Make Cream Cheese Bites
- Spread cream cheese onto the crackers.
- Slice the large cucumber and cut out a V-shape. Arrange it opposite the cutout to make the angel’s body.
- Place a snack cucumber slice on top to make the angel’s face.
- Top with chia seed eyes and mouth.
- Assemble the bites.
Possible Variations
- Crackers: Swap for crostini, sourdough, pita chips, tortilla chips, rice cakes, or potato chips.
- Cucumber: Use olives instead of the snack-size cucumber for the face.
- Garlic cream cheese: Feel free to add a sprinkle of fresh dill, chives, parsley, lemon juice, or bagel seasoning. Or swap cream cheese for olive tapenade, beetroot hummus, pesto, Brie, goat cheese, sundried tomato pesto, regular hummus, sour cream, or whipped feta.
- Yellow pepper halo: Use radish, cucumber peel, lemon peel, mayo, mozzarella, or cantaloupe.
- Chia seeds: Try black sesame seeds.
How to Store Leftovers
Keep leftover bites in an airtight container in the fridge and enjoy within 1 day.
FAQs
They aren’t suitable to make more than 30 minutes before serving, as the crackers can get soggy. You can, however, prep the cucumbers, so all you need to do is assemble at the last minute.
Arrange them on a large chopping board or platter, or add them to a snack board with other festive bites.
Be sure to dry the cucumber slices off on a paper towel.
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Cucumber Cream Cheese Bites
Ingredients
- 9 crackers, square-shaped
- 2 tablespoons garlic cream cheese
- 1/2 cucumber
- 1 cucumber, snack
- 1 yellow pepper
- 27 chia seeds
- sea salt, to taste
- black pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Spread the cream cheese onto the crackers.
- Slice the cucumber thinly.
- Make a v-shape in the cucumber slice.
- Place the v-shaped piece opposite the cut you just made.
- Top with a slice of snack cucumber.
- Add chia seeds for the eyes and the mouth.
- Place the angel on the cracker.
- Top with an oval piece of yellow pepper for the halo.
- Sprinkle with sea salt and pepper to taste.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
