Beth Hensperger

Appetizer Bread Cups

Preparation info
  • Makes

    48

    appetizer shells
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook: A Master Baker's 300 Favorite Recipes for Perfect-Every-Time Bread-From Every Kind of Machine
The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook

By Beth Hensperger

Published 2000

  • About

Bread pressed into small muffin cups and baked until crisp makes the perfect bite-sized containers for fillings like ratatouille, cold chicken liver mousse, goat cheese and fresh herbs, or chopped, marinated, roasted red peppers. You will need four muffin tins with 1½-inch cups to bake these all at once. Or you can bake them in batches.

Ingredients

  • Twelve ¼-inch-thick slices homemade bread, crusts removed
  • ½ cup olive oil or nut oil

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F.
  2. Using a rolling pin on a clean work surface, roll and press each slice of bread until flat. Cut each slice into quarters and trim each quarter-slice to make it an even square, or use a 3-inch decorative cutter (scalloped edge