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Saturday, February 13, 2010

Ham and Cheezy if you pleazy!



I was graciously invited to a birthday party this weekend and I was trying to think of what I should bring for some finger foods.

What to do ... what to do...

I remembered I had some danish pastry dough in the freezer and thought " hey, maybe I could use that". I picked up some sliced ham and some fresh spinach and some colby/jack cheese.
I rolled out the dough to about 1/16th of an inch and placed a leaf of spinach and 1/4 slice of ham and rolled it up like a croissant and placed a thin slice of cheese on top. In half of them I spread a small amount of cream cheese to add creaminess, Mmmm yum!
I kept them nice and small so they would be about two bites worth.

They were a big hit at the party and everyone asked for the recipe. Of course that was an easy one I just explained the way I put them together as I did above
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You can use all kinds of different dough types , such as puff pastry, biscuit dough, or even bread dough. The danish dough I used was buttery and flaky which you won't get with a bread dough.

I love using dough like this for something savory. It's a great combination of sweet and savory. Danish dough is used almost exclusively for sweet pastries.

I hope you'll try this some time and let me know how it turns out.

Mike the Baker Boy

1 comment:

  1. Had a nice conversation w/Gitti today and she told me about this blog. Cool stuff. Dya have any ideas for ways of using bisquick? I know a lot of people don't just have pastry dough hanging out in their frig at any moment, but bisquick is always around.

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