Best Cranberry Blue Cheese Appetizers Recipes

EASY ENDIVE, CRANBERRY, WALNUT APPETIZERS

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An excellent, quick appetizer and always a hit! Cranberry or walnut balsamic vinegar is wonderful with this!

Provided by Lisa McDowell Hackett

Categories Appetizers and Snacks Fruit

Time 10m

Yield 10

Number Of Ingredients 5

Ingredients

3 heads endive - washed, dried, and separated into individual leaves
⅓ cup crumbled blue cheese
⅓ cup sweetened dried cranberries (such as Craisins®)
⅓ cup glazed walnuts
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar, or to taste

Steps:

Arrange endive leaves on a serving tray.
Stir blue cheese, cranberries, and walnuts together in a bowl. Place a small amount of the blue cheese mixture on each leaf. Drizzle with balsamic vinegar.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 94.5 calories, Carbohydrate 12.3 g, Cholesterol 3.4 mg, Fat 4.3 g, Fiber 5.2 g, Protein 3.4 g, SaturatedFat 1.2 g, Sodium 130.7 mg, Sugar 4 g

CUCUMBER BITES

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Provided by Trisha Yearwood

Categories appetizer

Time 20m

Yield 4 servings

Number Of Ingredients 9

Ingredients

5 ounces cream cheese, such as Kraft Philadelphia, room temperature
4 ounces blue cheese, room temperature
1/2 cup dried cranberries
1/2 cup pecans, finely chopped
4 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
1 tablespoon honey
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 English cucumber, sliced in half lengthwise, seeds scooped out with a spoon to create 2 "boats"

Steps:

Combine the cream cheese, blue cheese, cranberries, pecans, butter, honey and some salt and pepper in a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Mix until fully combined.
Spread the filling into the cucumber "boats." Slice crosswise into 1-inch pieces.

CRANBERRY ENDIVE APPETIZERS

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You can pack a lot of flavor into an elegant appetizer just by using the right combination of ingredients. I created this blue cheese filling for a holiday gathering and everyone loved it. -Margee Berry, White Salmon, Washington

Provided by Taste of Home

Categories Appetizers

Time 20m

Yield 2 dozen.

Number Of Ingredients 6

Ingredients

4 ounces cream cheese, softened
2 tablespoons apple jelly
1/3 cup crumbled blue cheese
1/4 cup dried cranberries, chopped
24 leaves Belgian endive
1/4 cup chopped pecans, toasted

Steps:

In a large bowl, beat cream cheese and jelly until smooth. Stir in cheese and cranberries. Spoon heaping teaspoonfuls onto each endive leaf. Sprinkle with pecans.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 40 calories, Fat 3g fat (1g saturated fat), Cholesterol 7mg cholesterol, Sodium 41mg sodium, Carbohydrate 3g carbohydrate (2g sugars, Fiber 0 fiber), Protein 1g protein.

BLUE CHEESE BITES

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Canned biscuits, butter and blue cheese. Voila, a nice appetizer. Rich and so good and easy!

Provided by Ingrid

Categories Appetizers and Snacks Pastries

Time 20m

Yield 10

Number Of Ingredients 3

Ingredients

1 (10 ounce) package refrigerated biscuit dough
½ cup butter, melted
5 ounces blue cheese, crumbled

Steps:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9-inch pie plate with non-stick cooking spray.
Slice each biscuit into quarters, arrange then in the prepared pie plate. Pour melted butter over the biscuits, then sprinkle the biscuits with blue cheese.
Bake for 8 to 10 minutes.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 221.6 calories, Carbohydrate 12.5 g, Cholesterol 35.3 mg, Fat 17.1 g, Fiber 0.2 g, Protein 5 g, SaturatedFat 9.5 g, Sodium 542.8 mg, Sugar 2.1 g