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11 Easy Summer Appetizers You Can Serve Up This Year

Summertime means fabulous parties featuring good friends, great tunes and, most importantly, amazing appetizers. Here are some easy peasy summer appetizers to serve up at your parties this year.

1. Watermelon Fries

What do you get when you take the world’s tastiest fruit and everybody’s favourite snack? Watermelon fries! All you need to create this yummy appetizer is a fresh watermelon and some tajin seasoning (which can be easily swapped for a mix of salt, chili powder, and lime zest if you don’t have any on hand. This healthy, refreshing, totally vegan and gluten-free treat is sure to kill it at your summer parties this year.

2. Whipped Goat Cheese Bruschetta

These delicious easy summer appetizers work as both a sweet or savoury snack. The Cookie Rookie offers recipes for both a triple berry and a caprese whipped goat cheese bruschetta, but as it’s only the toppings that change, you could totally set up a bruschetta bar for your next summer party.

3. Melon Prosciutto Skewers

Cantaloupe, prosciutto, mozzarella cheese … your guests are going to think they’ve died and ended up in appetizer heaven. This delicious pairing of summer favourites couldn’t be more perfect if it tried!

4. Smoked Salmon and Cream Cheese Cucumber Bites

Another match made in heaven, these smoked salmon and cream cheese cucumber bites make the perfect easy summer appetizers for you and your guests to enjoy. Not only are they absolutely delish, but they only take ten minutes to whip up forty serves, and they’re super healthy – win!

5. Greek Salad Pinwheels

Combine two summer party food must haves into one with these yummy salad pinwheels. Kristin’s yummy recipe combines feta cheese and greek yogurt with finely diced traditional greek salad ingredients to create these dreamy, creamy, easy summer appetizers.

6. Buffalo Cauliflower Bites

These spicy appetizers are sure to be a low cal hit at your next party. Traditional buffalo wings come in at around 430 calories and 29 grams of fat per serve, but these fibre filled, antioxidant rich cauliflower bites are only 150 calories and 6 grams of fat per one cup serve!

7. Cucumber Hummus Cups

Cut out the middleman with these refreshing cucumber hummus cups. These crunchy summer snacks are seriously simple – cut a cucumber into 1/4 inch slices, scoop out the seeds with a spoon (leaving a thin layer at the bottom of each slice), and fill with everyone’s favourite dip – for an instant appetizer with no clean up required.

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8. Summer Snack Platter

Who doesn’t love a good summer snack platter? Hip Foodie Mom includes a variety of cheeses and cured meats, along with turkey or chicken breast, cherries, peaches, and almonds on her summer snack platter, but you can add any summery snacks you like to your grazing plate.

9. Mini Burger Bites

These mini cheeseburger bites with thousand island dip will have your guests salivating. Whether you serve them on skewers or create a mini burger bar, they’re bound to be a hit at your summer parties – and no-one will even notice the lack of burger bun!

10. Bacon Wrapped Pineapple Bites

Say it again: Bacon. Wrapped. Pineapple. This incredibly easy, incredibly tasty recipe has the delicious flavours of a Hawaiian pizza on a stick (minus the pizza base, so it’s sort of healthy, right?). Prep it ahead of time and start baking just before your guests are due to arrive if you’re worried you might eat them all yourself.

11. Watermelon Feta Skewers

Need some last minute easy summer appetizers (or to use up some of your other appetizer ingredients)? Throw together these healthy, flavourful watermelon feta skewers for a perfectly paired bite sized snack that is sure to be a hit with your party guests.

Which of these easy summer appetizers are you most keen to try? Let us know in the comments!

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