Hot Mushroom Crab Puff Canapes Recipes

HOT CRABMEAT PUFFS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F. Place water and butter in medium saucepan. Bring to boil. Add flour; mix well. Reduce heat to low. Cook until mixture forms a ball, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating with wooden spoon after each addition until well blended. Drop rounded teaspoonfuls of dough onto lightly greased baking sheets.
• Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until golden brown. Immediately remove from baking sheets to wire racks. Reduce oven temperature to 375°F.
• Mix cream cheese, milk, horseradish, salt and pepper in medium bowl until well blended. Add imitation crabmeat, almonds and onion; mix lightly. Cut tops from cream puffs; fill with the crabmeat mixture. Replace tops. Return to baking sheets. Bake an additional 10 minutes or until heated through.

CRAB PUFFS

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, bring the water, butter, mustard, salt, cumin and hot pepper sauce to a boil. Add flour all at once and stir until a smooth ball forms. Remove from the heat; let stand for 5 minutes., Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Continue beating until smooth and shiny. Stir in the cheese and crab., Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls 2 in. apart onto greased baking sheets. Bake at 400° for 23-26 minutes or until golden brown. Remove to wire racks. Serve warm.

HOT CRAB CANAPES

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients together and spread on the Rye mini-slices.
• Place under a broiler until hot and bubby.

HOT MUSHROOM CRAB PUFF CANAPES

Steps:

• Fry bacon until crisp, drain on paper towels. Crumble and set aside.
• Drain off bacon drippings, reserve 2 tablespoons in skillet.
• Add mushrooms, onion and garlic to skillet.
• Cook, stirring often, until liquid is evaporated.
• Stir in flour.
• Add cream cheese, Worcestershire sauce and soy sauce.
• Cook, stirring constantly until cheese melts.
• Stir sour cream, bacon and flaked crab into mixture and continue cooking and stirring, but do not boil!
• Season with salt and pepper.
• Spread on crackers and serve while hot.
• Note: This can be spread on small rounds of lightly toasted white bread and run under the broiler until mixture puffs.

CUMIN CRAB CANAPES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Lay out the bread slices and, using the biscuit cutter, punch out 5 bread rounds per slice. Place the rounds on a baking sheet and place the sheet in the top half of the oven for 3 minutes, until the rounds are lightly toasted. Remove from the oven and set aside.
• Drain the crabmeat well and place it in a mixing bowl. Add the mayonnaise, cumin, hot sauce, lime juice, chives and salt and mix well. Mound the crab mix onto the bread rounds by the teaspoonful and garnish with a piece of chive.

HAWAIIAN CRAB CANAPES

Steps:

• Spread cream cheese over crackers. Top with crab, preserves, coconut, nuts and chives.

HOLIDAY CRAB PUFFS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
• Use a 2-inch cookie cutter to cut puff pastry into forty rounds. Transfer to the prepared baking sheets.
• Mix mayonnaise, cream cheese, lemon juice, seafood seasoning, and salt together in a medium bowl. Fold in crab meat. Spoon about 2 teaspoons onto each pastry round.
• Bake in the preheated oven until pastries are golden and crisp, rotating halfway through, 20 to 25 minutes.
• Sprinkle with additional seafood seasoning, if desired, and serve hot.