These cute and easy mozzarella cheese snowman snacks are perfect for Christmas party food or a fun festive meal at home!
I've got several Christmas treat recipes to share with you this festive season (it's definitely been the kind of year for copious amounts of cookies!), so I thought I'd squeeze in a healthier recipe to balance them out a bit. These mozzarella snowmen are fun to make and perfect for a Christmas or winter themed appetiser.
They're really quick and easy to put together so you can either make them yourself or lay out the ingredients and let the kids have a go at building their own snowmen. If you're feeling extra creative, why not pair them with my easy cucumber Christmas trees for an extra special snack platter!
I used black sesame seeds for my snowmen's eyes and buttons, but if you can't find them (I found mine in the baking section at Sainsburys), you can use other seeds such as poppy seeds or chia seeds instead. The mozzarella pearls were also from Sainsburys - they seem to be slightly larger than the mozzarella pearls I've bought from other supermarkets in the past so they were perfect for this recipe.
Mozzarella Cheese Snowman Snacks
Ingredients (makes 12):
- ½ cucumber
- 250g mozzarella cheese pearls
- 2 slices carrot
- Handful black sesame seeds
Method:
Cut 12 rounds, each around 1 cm thick, from the cucumber.
Using a mini round cutter, cut circles from the cucumber slices to form the bases of your snowmen.
Push a cocktail stick into the top of a cucumber slice so that it is standing vertically.
Carefully push two mozzarella pearls onto the cocktail stick to make the snowman body and head.
Cut the carrot slices into tiny triangle wedges for the snowman noses.
Push a carrot nose into the head piece of the snowman.
Add black sesame seed eyes and buttons to the snowman, pressing them gentlyto the mozzarella pearl to stick them in place (you might find this easier to do with tweezers if you have them).
Stand the snowman on a plate or platter and repeat until you have made as many snowmen as you need.
Serve immediately and enjoy!
If you enjoyed this recipe, you may also like these festive appetisers:
Or for more fun and easy food ideas for the festive season, check out the Christmas Food section here on the Eats Amazing blog or pop over and follow my Christmas Pinterest boards for lots more fun ideas from around the web; Christmas, Cute Christmas Food Ideas and Healthy Christmas Food.
Grace
Mozzarella Cheese Snowman Snacks
Ingredients
- ½ cucumber
- 250 g mozzarella cheese pearls
- 2 slices carrot
- Handful black sesame seeds
Instructions
- Cut 12 rounds, each around 1 cm thick, from the cucumber.
- Using a mini round cutter, cut circles from the cucumber slices to form the bases of your snowmen.
- Push a cocktail stick into the top of a cucumber slice so that it is standing vertically.
- Carefully push two mozzarella pearls onto the cocktail stick to make the snowman body and head.
- Cut the carrot slices into tiny triangle wedges for the snowman noses.
- Push a carrot nose into the head piece of the snowman.
- Add black sesame seed eyes and buttons to the snowman, pressing them gently to the mozzarella pearl to stick them in place (you might find this easier to do with tweezers if you have them).
- Stand the snowman on a plate or platter and repeat until you have made as many snowmen as you need.
- Serve immediately and enjoy!
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