Recipe: a wonderfully convivial snack cake
Of course, you can spend the entire afternoon in the kitchen and amaze friend and foe with complicated snack boards packed with elaborate finger food, such as tempura of cavolo nero and grilled wagyu skewers. But hey, it’s Sunday, you’re feeling lazy, and a thick slice of liver sausage and cheese with a little flag is also really delicious, right? And ten points for conviviality!
How to make this wonderfully convivial snack cake
Make sure that, besides all the ingredients, you also have cocktail sticks, a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and a piping bag with a star-shaped nozzle.
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius.
Place the thawed puff pastry sheets on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and cut them in half. You can now make two sausage rolls from each sheet of puff pastry.
Cut open the sausages and divide the filling over the puff pastry sheets. Fold them over and seal one side with a little beaten egg. Press the edges firmly together with the end of a fork and brush the roll with egg. Bake them for 20 minutes in the preheated oven.
Hard-boil the eggs. Peel and halve them and remove the yolks. In a bowl, mix the yolks with the mayonnaise, mustard and chives; season with pepper and salt. Put the mixture in a piping bag with a star-shaped nozzle and pipe the filling onto the eggs. Garnish with a sprig of curly parsley.
Roll up the slices of bologna. Cut the slices of liver sausage in half. Now cut half of the liver sausage in half again so that you have a quarter slice. Thread a pearl onion, two gherkins and another pearl onion onto a cocktail stick, and finish with a quarter slice of liver sausage.
Imagine you’re a pastry chef. Well, sort of
Now assemble the cake. The bottom layer consists of the mini sausage rolls, with a layer of cocktail sticks on top. Arrange the stuffed eggs around them, alternating sides. Tuck a roll of bologna here and there between the sausage rolls. The next layer consists of the cubes of cheese.
Place a small bowl of mustard for dipping right on top of the cake. Arrange the half slices of liver sausage around the mustard and stick a little flag into each one. The only thing left to do now is sit together in a circle, in true Dutch style.
Recipe: 24Kitchen
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