BEST Cucumber Tea Sandwiches ➡ Yummy Cream Cheese Spread 👌🏻 Fancy Garnish 🥒

today we're making the most delicious cucumber tea sandwiches ever and it's all thanks to this creamy dreamy herb cream cheese spread however before we can get to that spread we're gonna kick it off with the bread i'm just gonna be demonstrating with one loaf of fresh white bakery bread but for your party you're gonna need two so i'm just gonna turn my bread up on its little hiney and what we're gonna start doing is we're gonna start shaving off the crust that's part of what makes a tea sandwich a tea sandwich no crust allowed we have a pretty square looking loaf what i want to do is just make sure that i've got absolutely all the crust removed once you have your loaf looking pretty rectangular you want to go ahead and cut it into slices as you're cutting the bread into slices you want to follow the knife downward with your eyes and that way you can keep things a pretty even width for the spread you're going to start with 12 ounces of cream cheese that's one and a half blocks of cream cheese softened you're also going to add in a third cup of sour cream a third cup of mayonnaise one tablespoon of dried chives a half teaspoon of kosher salt three quarter teaspoon of onion powder a quarter teaspoon of dried dill and a pinch of black pepper that is a lot of flavor and now we're gonna add even more with a couple of fresh ingredients gonna add one and a half tablespoon of fresh squeezed lemon juice we're also going to add in some fresh chopped garlic two cloves and we're gonna give it a really fine mince now we're going to take this over to the bowl get your handheld mixer start on low increase that speed and just keep it running until everything is looking really smooth and well combined and it already smells amazing after just like 10 seconds of mixing this is gonna be really really good [Applause] my recipe calls for two english cucumbers but this english cucumber is abnormally large so just the one will do the reason why we want to use english cucumbers over regular cucumbers is because the skin of an english cucumber is going to be finer so we can have those pretty variegated stripes by leaving the skin on and it's going to be less seedy so so much better for the perfect cucumber tea sandwich now here's how we get those really pretty stripes you're just gonna take your vegetable peeler and run it down the same spot maybe two times and then we're gonna just turn it over and make sure you leave a little bit of room here and we're gonna run it down again goodness this guy just doesn't wanna doesn't wanna let go get out of here okay so there you have it there's your pretty stripes now you're gonna cut some nice thin slices you want to try to make sure that they're an even width they don't have to be paper thin because you still want them to have a little bit of crunch but you don't want them to be so thick that it's all you taste transfer these over to a bowl for now the next step in making the most perfect cucumber tea sandwiches in the world is to butter your bread you must butter your bread it is what helps to keep your sandwiches from getting soggy and nobody wants to eat soggy cucumber sandwiches i've got a couple big sheets of wax paper here just so that i have a nice large work surface to lay out my buttered pieces of bread you're going to want to have about a third of a cup of unsalted room temperature butter your butter needs to be nice and spreadable but not melty we're just gonna add a thin layer just like so we're gonna add a super generous smear of that cream cheese spread [Music] now we're going to start laying down our cucumbers and i'm just going to slightly overlap them now we're going to slice into it you're going to want to have a really good sharp serrated knife on hand and i'm just going to cut these into little rectangles [Music] we're going to cover two more things how to transport them and how to garnish them we'll start with the transport take a sheet of wax paper lay it in the bottom of your storage container start adding in your tea sandwiches you've got one layer of your tea sandwiches down now we're going to add another sheet of wax paper add the lid and you're good to go now we're going to pretend like i didn't just put them in a box closed off off to the side and we're going to cut into a cucumber a little differently than before for some garnish we're going to slice it as thin as we can possibly get it you're gonna grab a little stack and we're gonna make a cut from the center to the edge just before serving place a toothpick right in the center grab one of your cucumbers and just slide it down then bring the center and slide it down again and now bring an edge piece slide that down do it again edge center edge are these not the showstopper that i promised they are absolutely adorable and they taste as good as they look and if you happen to end up with any leftover herb cream cheese spread do not get rid of it put it in a little bowl and you can serve it on a veggie platter just like we did with our dill dip be sure that you check out that recipe so that you can see how to beautifully assemble all of your party platters

Channel: The Anthony Kitchen

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Id: rJnqqlDafBE

Length: 6min 34sec (394 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 30 2022