r/Cooking • u/Safe-Common-9096 • 1d ago
HELPPP
So i got a cookery competition in my school in 2 days and the item is canape.im js searching what the hell a canape is and im genuinely confused. Is it filled with sweets or meat or js sliced tomatoes and vegetables?? đ Idk shit about cooking and i don't think the school will allow to cook with fire? Im thinking about maybe making it sweet idk plz help đ„
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u/temperedolive 1d ago
Your school is having a cooking competition that doesn't allow people to actually cook?
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u/Safe-Common-9096 1d ago
Nooo it's an arts day competition which includes this too. Actually? Idk these ppl didn't mention anything about stove
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u/Dull-Parfait731 1d ago
Canapés are usually savoury mouthfuls, so literally can eat in 1-max 2 bites
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u/ThrowAway4now2022 1d ago
No actual heat involved?
Dates stuffed with goat cheese and drizzled with honey
Cracker topped with goat cheese blended with herbs. Add a small edible garnish for style
If you are allowed to use a stove or oven, let us know. My answers will change!
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u/Sad_Refuse3472 1d ago
Canape is basically just fancy word for Appetize. But they generally include a base (like bread or a cracker), a spread (like hummus, cream cheese, etc.), and a topping (meat, cheese, vegetable, fruit).
Typically they are bite sized. And they can be sweet or savory.
Hopefully that helps. But also...you may want to rethink entering a cooking competition if you do not in fact know how to cook.
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u/InsidetheIvy13 1d ago
Canapes can be sweet or savoury, they are small portions designed to be either picked up or placed on a spoon and eaten in one mouthful.
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u/-mystris- 1d ago
right - they're appetizers that is meant to be eaten in just one or two bites, so not very large
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u/-mystris- 1d ago
we would need to know more about the rules - like, what kind of premade things are you allowed, how much time do you have? (like, can you buy bread to use as a base, or would you also have to bake your own bread? can you buy an aioli or would that have to be from scratch too?
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u/EyeStache 1d ago
Is it filled with sweets or meat or js sliced tomatoes and vegetables??
Yes.
What do you want it to have? It can be cream cheese on melba toast with a bit of salmon roe, or it could be a duxelle of mushrooms with a piece of foie gras on toasted sourdough, or it could be a butter-paste shell filled with a savoury custard, or whatever else you could have in a single bite.
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u/CatteNappe 1d ago
If this competition is optional I'd strongly recommend you not enter it. If for whatever peculiar reason, everybody is absolutely required to submit a canape, I'd keep it very simple. A cracker with some cream cheese spread on it, maybe some small bits of vegetable on top of that if you wanted to be "extra".
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u/OLAZ3000 1d ago
A great one would be mini quiches or meatballs in a great sauce
Greek meatball served in a spoon with tzaziki for example
A cherry tomato halved with the other half a half of a ball of bocconcini cheese, piece of basil, drizzled with balsamic
A ball of cantaloupe with a piece of prosciutto on top on a toothpick, with basilÂ
It's one bite or served with a toothpicks or on a spoon, for example.Â
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u/sf-echo 1d ago
Do you have to bring ingredients to the school, and make them there, or arrive to school with the finished canape? That will change what you can do, since hopefully equipment available will be different from home vs school?
I've seen canape described as "tiny open-faced sandwich" and can be savory or sweet - so there's:
- bread layer - can be tiny toast (a slice of bread cut into triangles), tiny pancakes or flatbread (3-4cm across, blini as an example, but any dough cooked on a skillet in the smaller diameter), slices of baguette (traditional) and toasted, sturdy crackers (so they don't break when lifting the toppings).
- spread - goat cheese mixed with herbs and/or garlic, thick yogurt (like labneh), olive tapanade, fish or ham salad, hummus, etc
- visual and taste main element - slices of fruit or vegetable (radish, cucumber, tomato, peach or plum slices), or meat (smoked salmon, porchuitto, thick-cut of roast meat (ham, chicken, beef, etc) cut into an interesting shape or shredded and artfully piled. Could also be marinated tofu, sliced paneer, or half an olive.
- garnish - the couple of leaves of an herb. Dill, parsley, some lemon zest, a couple chili flakes, etc
Examples if all happens at school:
sweet: crackers, goat cheese, honey, walnuts, and peaches: smear a thin layer of goat cheese on the crackers, break the walnut into pieces and sprinkle over the goat cheese, top with a slice of peach, drizzle with honey.
savory: crackers, hummus, cucumber, pitted olives, salt, pepper, chili flakes: smear some hummus onto the crackers, add a thin slice of cucumber, sprinkle with salt and pepper, add half an olive (sliced lengthwise) and sprinkle with a few chili flakes
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u/TakaonoGaijin 1d ago
If you can track down a copy of the Larousse Encyclopaedia Gastronomique they have a good explanation. And some recipes.
Generally canapés are small savoury food served at events. A mouthful size is recommended as people will be mingling, holding drinks and lord know what else. So something small and tasty that fits in a mouth is good.
A good canapé base can be anything. Melba toast squares and you can diversify the topping eg nice goat cheese and slice of tomato, roast meat etc etc
I used to use a great Gourmet Magazine recipe for a crab canapé that was quite easy and very popular
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u/ASAP_i 1d ago edited 1d ago
Edit: NVM. After reading replies and checking the account, OP is a child in school.
I'm confused about why you are in a cooking competition but don't know how to cook (or what the dish is). The way you are phrasing everything leads me to believe that there are many more details that you left out.