When choosing your wedding menu I think it’s important to be seasonal, and that applies to your canapés too. With this in mind, here are some of my favourite ideas for winter wedding canapés — delicious!

Meat Winter Canapés

  • Crisp black pudding topped with poached quail eggs and chive hollandaise
  • Chopstick forks of spiced duck breast with orange and anise dipping sauce
  • Confit duck croquets, raspberry and balsamic ‘jam’
  • Goujons of pheasant with roasted garlic aioli
  • Mini Brindisa chorizo with roasted red pepper ketchup
  • Mini ‘Toad in the Holes’ with red onion marmalade
  • Scotch quail eggs with bacon mayo
  • Soup sips in classic flavours such as Pea and Ham or Oxtail

Winter Canapés

Fish Winter Canapés

  • Smoked haddock and leek soufflés — sublime!
  • Brioche croutes of smoked salmon and celery with horseradish cream
  • Grilled tiger prawns marinated in coconut and lime
  • Monkfish cheeks with home made tartar sauce
  • Thai crab cakes with sweet chilli sauce
  • Soused mackerel and pickled fennel
  • Fresh tuna and baby caper tartar
  • Smoked haddock chowder sips

Vegetarian Winter Canapés

  • Tortes of wild mushrooms, sour cream and thyme
  • Sweet potato scones with grilled goats cheese and yellow sultana relish
  • Broad bean and pecorino falafel with lemon yoghurt
  • Twice baked goats cheese soufflés with wild greens
  • Warm shots of white bean cappuccino with lemon oil
  • Butternut, taleggio and sage arancini
  • Sweet potato scones with goats cheeses and tea soaked yellow sultanas
  • Wild mushroom risotto cake, tapenade and mushroom crisp
  • Beetroot wafer with whipped goats cheese and caramelised walnuts

Guest post by Julie Gray of Bovingdons

Image from Flickr by Geoff Peters (CC BY 2.0 License)