Quick date appetizers

At Christmas, you may have gotten an assortment of dried fruits. With figs, plums, apricots, dates, and nuts. And of those, you may have dates left over that you don’t quite know what to do with. Here I have a simple and tasty idea.

These date appetizers are easy to make, and you can prepare them well in advance. They’re so quick to make, you’ll be able to finish them in time even if you have a spontaneous visitor.

All you need is three ingredients and a spice of your choice. I used voatsiperifery pepper today. It tastes intensely peppery, woody, and warm.

But you can use any other pepper or a spice blend like Cajun, Outback, or Nasi-Goreng.

Here’s the recipe:

For four people:

Date-Cream-Cheese-Bacon Appetizers

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 15 minutes mins

Total Time 25 minutes mins

Course Aperitif, Appetizer

Servings 4 people

Ingredients

  

• 12 – 16 dates
• 50 g cream cheese
• 12 – 16 slices of bacon
• spice of your choice

Instructions

 

• Preheat the oven to 180 °C
• Mix the cream cheese well with the spice of your choice
• Cut the dates open on one side and remove the stone (the dates must still hold together on one side)
• Fill dates with cream cheese
• Wrap dates with a slice of bacon and place on a baking tray covered with baking paper
• Bake dates in the oven for about 20 minutes

Notes

Enjoy while still warm
Bread or crackers are suitable on side

Keyword dates

What do you do with extra dates?