5-minute Christmas tree appetizer
Yield 10-12 servings
Ingredients
- 1 block cream cheese (8 ounce)
- 4 small Laughing Cow cheese triangles
- Small pretzel sticks
- 1 green apple, halved, cut into thin slices
- 2 tablespoons basil pesto, poured into a small squeeze bottle
- 2 tablespoons sun-dried tomato pesto, poured into a small squeeze bottle
- Assorted crackers for serving
Instructions
- Cut block of cream cheese down the middle diagonally. On serving platter, flip one side of cream cheese over next to other side, forming a tree shape.
- Place small cheese triangles around the large cream cheese tree.
- Insert pretzel stick into the bottom of large cream cheese tree to form the trunk. Insert a pretzel stick into each of the smaller cheese trees to form trunks.
- Lay apple slices diagonally across the large cream cheese tree.
- Squeeze rows of basil pesto on the large tree. Squeeze dots on the smaller trees.
- Use the sun-dried tomato pesto to form ornaments on the large tree. Squeeze dots on the smaller trees.
- Serve with assorted crackers.
Courses Appetizer
Recipe by Grateful | makeitgrateful.com at https://www.makeitgrateful.com/living/celebrate/christmas/a-truly-simple-and-unique-5-minute-christmas-tree-appetizer-that-will-impress-all-your-family-and-friends/