It’s that time of year once again where hosting goes into overdrive and even more culinary inspiration is needed than normal. And there’s no better way to impress your guests at a festive dinner or drinks party than by laying on an array of beautiful canapés. If you’re wanting to create your dainty bites from an easy-to-find, every day ingredient, you need look no further than the cherry tomato.
Vibrant in colour, rich in flavour and hugely versatile in terms of how you can use them, cherry tomatoes are the ultimate fruit to centre your festive morsels around. Whether cooked down into a paste, dried out in the oven or kept whole in all their glory, it’s a given that any canapé involving tomatoes is going to prove popular, but the particularly concentrated flavour of a cherry tomato is unbeatable. What’s more, the options are endless as to the flavours they combine with, meaning things can be kept traditional by pairing the cherry tomatoes with something like basil, or you can try something a little more out-there altogether. These are five of our favourite cherry tomato canapés that are sure to go down well this festive season.