Holiday Sandwich Wreath

Course: Side Dish, Snack

Cuisine: Christmas, North American

Prep Time: 30

Total Time: 30

Servings: servings

Calories: 563kcal

Author: Lord Byron's Kitchen

The sandwiches that make up this Holiday Sandwich Wreath are small, delicious, and festively shaped with your favourite cookie cutters. With four different flavours, there's one for everyone! Serve these finger sandwiches with a cup of hot tea at an afternoon holiday gathering!

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Ingredients

8 ounces cream cheese, brick style, softened
1/2 cup sour cream, full fat
1/2 cup marinated artichokes, finely chopped
1/2 cup roasted red peppers, finely chopped
1/4 cup nonpariels, Christmas-themed
1/3 cup peanut butter
1/3 cup jelly
1/4 cup mayonnaise
5 slices cheese
10 slices deli ham
10 slices pumperknickel bread
10 slices white bread
20 slices light rye bread
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper

Instructions

Add the softened cream cheese to a mixing bowl and beat on high speed until smooth.
Add in the sour cream and beat into the cream cheese until well combined.
Half the mixture. Set one half aside.
To the other half, add the chopped roasted red peppers, chopped marinated artichokes, salt, and black pepper. Beat well until combined.
Spread a thin layer of the mixture onto the light rye bread, or the bread of your choosing.
Top it with a second slice and press down gently to bind.
Use a Christmas-themed cookie cutter to cut out your desired shape.
Set the sandwich aside and make the next. Continue until you have used up the red pepper and artichoke mixture.
Using the cream cheese and sour cream mixture you had previously set aside, spread one slice of white bread with it.
Sprinkle the middle of the sliced bread with nonpareils.
Lay the second slice flat on a cutting board and use a small cookie cutter to cut a small star shape out of the bread. Save those little stars!
Place the slice onto the prepared slice and press gently to create a bind. Use a cookie cutter to cut out the desired shape. Keep in mind that this shape should be much larger than the star shape in the middle.
Continue until you have used up the cream cheese mixture.
There is no preparation needed for the Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches. Smear one slice of bread with peanut butter and the other with jelly.
Press the two together and cut out a shape with your cookie cutter of choice.
To prepare the Ham and Cheese sandwiches, lightly spread mayo onto two slices of bread.
Place a slice of ham onto one slice, followed by a slice of cheese, and the second slice of ham.
Top with the remaining slice of bread and cut out your favourite shape.
Next, using fresh sprigs of edible greenery, such as summer savoury or kale, create a circular pattern on the board. I used cedar branches that I cut from one of our cedar trees. They were washed very well and dried in a salad spinner. Whatever greenery you choose to use, position the sprigs so that the leafy end is pointing out from the center of the board. The wreath size will be determined by how many sandwiches you will be piling onto it, so size the wreath accordingly. It’s always best to make the wreath a little bigger so that the green leaves are not completely covered with the sandwiches.
Working with one sandwich at a time, lay the sandwiches down in a single layer, alternating between the types of sandwiches as you go. The goal is to create a circular pattern while staying inside the bed of greenery you have created. Once you get the base layer done, pile the rest of the sandwiches one by one onto the base, filling in the gaps and creating different levels of height and composition as you go.
Next, go around the board and evenly distribute the little white stars you saved from the Holiday Sprinkle Sandwiches. You can layer them or fill in some of the gaps if there are any.
I also opted to add in a few cherry tomatoes to make the wreath look more festive and colourful.
Your beautiful Holiday Sandwich Wreath can be served immediately or you can cover it well with plastic wrap and refrigerate it until needed. When you’re ready to serve, fetch the wreath from the fridge, unwrap it, and it’s ready to go!

Notes

The nutritional information is not accurate because the calculator does not subtract how much of the sandwich is discarded after the sandwiches have been cut out.

The amounts in the recipe card assume that five sandwiches can be prepared for each of the four flavours. If you use bigger or smaller cookie cutters, this will affect how many cutouts you can get from each whole sandwich.

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