Mini Smorgastartas

Looking for an idea for Christmas brunch/lunch?

These adorable little cakes are really sandwiches.

No...it's true!

Mini smorgastartas to be exact.

We have made regular smorgastartas a few times (See HERE and HERE) and then we saw Beth's teeny versions over at Hungry Happenings. We were inspired by her great idea to miniaturize these fancy sandwiches and decided to come up with our own version.

These are simple... if a little bit messy... and the kidlets can help decorate! You can fill the sandwiches with your favorite filling so you can (hopefully) please even your pickiest eaters.

Mini Smorgastartas

Ingredients

1 loaf Dempster's Whole Grain Bread

1 loaf Dempster's White Bread

1 (250 g) container Philadelphia Soft Cream Cheese

2 (250 g) containers Philadelphia Herb & Garlic Cream Cheese

Filling - Egg

5 boiled eggs

1/8 cup onion, finely diced

1/8 cup celery, finely diced

2 -3 Tbsp mayo

Filling - ham

2 (120 g) tins of deviled ham

1/8 cup onion, finely diced

2 - 3 Tbsp mayo

Decorations

red pepper

green pepper

large carrot

Directions

Using a cookie cutter approx 3 1/2 inches across, cut out circles from both loaves of the Dempster's bread.

Set circles aside while you prepare cream cheese and filling.

Prepare the cream cheese "frosting" - In a medium mixing bowl, mix together the Philadelphia soft cream cheese and the 2 containers of herb & garlic cream cheese. 

Prepare egg filling - In a small mixing bowl, mash together the boiled eggs, onion, and celery using a fork. When fairly smooth, mix in the mayo. 

Prepare ham filling - In a small mixing bowl, mash together the deviled ham, onion, and mayo using a fork. 

Assemble your mini smorgastartas - place a round of bread on your work surface. 

Spread a bit of the egg filling onto the bread. 

Place another round of bread on top of the egg filling.

Spread a bit of the ham filling onto the bread.

Top with a third round of bread.

Repeat until all bread rounds and filling is used up. (I got 9 mini smorgastartas in total)

Frosting the sandwiches is just like frosting a cake. Just take some of the cream cheese and spread it around the outside of the sandwich. Then take a little more and spread it on top. It doesn't need to be very thick - you just want it to cover the bread. (This is the messy part!)

Now comes the fun part!

You can decorate with the red & green peppers & carrot by either cutting out shapes OR using mini cookies cutters to cut the veggies into circles and trees and holly and gingerbread men and all that fun stuff!

You can use any flavor of Philadelphia Flavored Cream cheese for "frosting". They have dill, herb & garlic, chive & onion, garden vegetable, smoked salmon, etc. 

If you want to do a sweet version of this - try a peanut butter and jelly layered sandwich or peanut butter and banana... and then you could frost it with the Philadelphia Strawberry, Pineapple, or Chocolate Cream Cheese. 

Go crazy!

These are soooo much fun. 

Oh, yeah...and tasty!

 

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