Monday, December 7, 2020

Shrimp and Crab Puffs: Party Season Blog With Friends

 
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Today’s post is the next in our series of Blog With Friends themed collaborations. Each month a group of bloggers get together and each publish a project based on a theme. What I love about his partnership is that it's not bloggers with similar interests or strengths but a diverse group coming up with a variety of posts. Mine always includes a recipe.

 
 
 
This month's theme is Party Season. 

 
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I made Shrimp and Crab Puffs.



Shrimp and Crab Puffs are a simple but elegant appetizer for the holidays or any occasion. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #appetizer

Shrimp and Crab Puffs

There is so much I love about party season, and so much I don't. I love the efforts made to get together and celebrate with everyone, relatives, friends, neighbors, co-workers and even acquaintances. It's a season filled with fun. But the main thing I don't like about it is that's it's all crammed into about a 6 week period. It makes it a season filled with stress too. So much cooking and baking and shopping and planning, from Thanksgiving through New Year's Eve, we do a year's worth of all of those things.

When it comes to celebrations, especially when I'm the host, there are a few things that are important to me. First, making sure that I do enough prep work ahead of time that I can join in the party. Second, I want people to eat and drink comfortably. If I can't set up enough table seating for a sit down dinner, or don't want that kind of a party, I want to serve foods people can pop in their mouths in one or two bites. Since I dislike trying to walk around balancing a plate, or trying to sit in a chair with one balanced on my lap, I don't serve foods you'd need a fork and knife for. My favorite is to set the food up in a central place, label each serving plate so guests know what's there, then let everyone grab single serving foods through the night (and I can mostly just add to the table now and then but spend most of the time joining in the fun).

So, for today's post I've come up with a new individual sized appetizer inspired (loosely) by a favorite dinner, shrimp scampi. I deliberately developed the recipe to be easy to make, utilizing refrigerator biscuits and canned baby shrimp and crabmeat. I do cook and bake from scratch quite a bit (like all of the homemade cookies I make and pass out over the holiday season), but I also take short cuts where I can and this time of year I do.

Start with gathering the ingredients:
 
Shrimp and Crab Puffs are a simple but elegant appetizer for the holidays or any occasion. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #appetizer

Prepare the filling:
 
Shrimp and Crab Puffs are a simple but elegant appetizer for the holidays or any occasion. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #appetizer

Separate each biscuit into thirds (I had butter flavored biscuits so that's what I used, but the buttermilk ones will work well too):
 
Shrimp and Crab Puffs are a simple but elegant appetizer for the holidays or any occasion. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #appetizer

 
Place the filling into the center of all of the biscuit pieces: 

Shrimp and Crab Puffs are a simple but elegant appetizer for the holidays or any occasion. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #appetizer

Form a ball with the filling in the center. Brush the tops with the butter spread and they're ready for the oven:
Shrimp and Crab Puffs are a simple but elegant appetizer for the holidays or any occasion. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #appetizer
 
Bake for 15 minutes, and they're done: 

Shrimp and Crab Puffs are a simple but elegant appetizer for the holidays or any occasion. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #appetizer
 
Note: to get a puffed up top, bake with the seam facing up, to get a more rounded top, bake with the seam down.


Shrimp and Crab Puffs are a simple but elegant appetizer for the holidays or any occasion. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #appetizer


As always, any time you make one of my recipes, feel free to post a picture of it to my Baking In A Tornado Facebook Page. I'd love to see it!

Before you go, there's more Party Season fun to check out:
 
Blog With Friends, a multi-blogger project based post incorporating a theme, Party Season | Hot Chocolate Bombs by Tamara of Part-time Working Hockey Mom | Featured on www.BakingInATornado.com
 
Tamara of Part-time Working Hockey Mom shares how to make Hot Chocolate Bombs

 
Blog With Friends, a multi-blogger project based post incorporating a theme, Party Season | Party Season by P.J. of A ‘lil HooHaa| Featured on www.BakingInATornado.com
 
 
P.J. of A 'lil HooHaa shares Party Season.



 
 
No matter how you spend it, happy party season,

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Shrimp and Crab Puffs
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Printable Recipe

Ingredients:
1 can (4 oz) baby shrimp
1 can (6 oz) crabmeat
2 TBSP sour cream (I use light)
3 TBSP shredded cheddar cheese (I use reduced fat) 
1 can (8 count) refrigerator biscuits
3 tsp melted garlic and herb butter spread (can substitute 3 tsp melted butter with 1/8 tsp garlic powder) 
 
Directions:
*Grease the wells of mini muffin tins (you'll need 24). Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
*Drain the shrimp and crabmeat. Place on a paper towel and pat gently.
*Mix together the shrimp, crabmeat, sour cream and cheddar.
*Open the can of biscuits and, pulling apart the layers, divide each biscuit into thirds. 
*Place about a tablespoon shrimp and crab mixture into the center of each biscuit third. 
*Form each biscuit into a ball, making sure that the filling is inside and there are no tears in the biscuits. Place into the muffin tin wells. 
*Using a pastry brush, brush the tops of each ball with the melted butter spread, then bake for 15 minutes. Serve warm.
 

 

16 comments:

  1. Shrimp and I don't get along, but other than that it sounds like a great and easy recipe. Maybe two cans of crabmeat? Crabmeat and something else?

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  2. Oh, I MUST try this! I'll be using my own 'Best Cheese Biscuit' recipe and frozen crabmeat, but I'll let you know how they go! Husby with love them!

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  3. I'm not a party animal and throwing one stresses me, even if it is just a few people. So, this year, I am truly not that sorry that we aren't supposed to be throwing parties. Next year? Maybe with the crab; husband loves shrimp as much as I don't. But we both like crab. Alana ramblinwitham.blogspot.com

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  4. What a nice appetizer this is. It would work great to keep the grazers out of the kitchen while cooking a big meal, too.

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    1. HA, what a great way to look at the use of appetizers.

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  5. That sounds like a delicious and easy to make addition to a buffet.
    And my guess is this year the season is less stressful, and we're sad about it. Hope you'll still get to enjoy yourself!

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    1. I packed all of our holiday celebrations into the month that my son was here. And he did like these Shrimp and Crab Puffs.

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  6. Now THAT is a recipe even I can do! (And will...)

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    1. That's great. Let me know what you think.

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    2. With a very few modifications, they turned out really good, though I ended up with almost 2 rounds worth of puffs- which, of course, is a good thing!

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