How Do You Make Ham Sandwiches For Appetizers?

How do you make ham sandwiches for appetizers? It all depends on the impression you'd like to make. If these are hungry friends who bunk on your couch after partying all night, they won't expect anything fancy in their ham sandwich appetizers. If it's someone you want to impress, you'll want to spend some time on appealing to all the senses.

What you'll need to make ham sandwich appetizers:

• Variety of breads
• Thin-sliced ham
• Variety of thin-sliced cheeses
• Mayonnaise
• Mustard
• Lettuce
• Tomatoes
• Pickle slices
• Decorator toothpicks

Steps to make ham sandwich appetizers:

1. Prepare the bread. On a flat surface, lay out all the slices of bread, with the bottoms on one side and the tops on the other. If you want to make attractive ham sandwich appetizers, use a variety of breads. Some favorites include rye, whole wheat and multi-grained artisan bread.
2. Add condiments. Slather mustard on the bottom bread and mayonnaise on the top. Layering the flavors adds more flavors to your ham sandwich appetizers and will have your guests asking for more.
3. Foundation. Place at least three thin slices of ham on each of the bottoms. If you use less, your ham sandwich appetizers will seem chintzy, and you don't want people to think you're cheap.
4. Vegetables. Top the ham slices with a slice of cheese, a leaf of lettuce, a thin slice of tomato and a pickle slice. If you want to know how to make ham sandwich appetizers even more interesting, use one sweet pickle slice and one dill pickle slice.
5. Close the sandwiches. Carefully place the mayonnaise slathered bread on top of the ham, cheese, lettuce, tomato and pickle, mayo side down.
6. Remove crust. If you use standard size bread, you may want to remove the crust on your ham sandwiches for appetizers. This isn't necessary or even recommended if you use the smaller size appetizer breads.
7. Toothpicks. Spear each sandwich with a decorator toothpick. Put them in different places on each ham sandwich to make them easier to stack on the appetizer platter.
8. Plate. Find the fanciest platter or plate in your cupboard and make sure it's clean and dry. Carefully arrange and stack the sandwiches on the platter to make your ham sandwich appetizers as attractive as possible.

Place this platter in the center of the table and surround it with bowls of nuts and chips so your guests can munch when they first arrive. Don't be surprised if they corner you with comments like "You're brilliant," "This is delicious," and "How do you make ham sandwiches for appetizers?"