Youll want to make these appetizers this winter and every season afterwards.

The optional minced chives add a nice pop of color, but these are just as tasty without herbs.

Keep the ingredients on hand and you’re free to whip these up for impromptu holiday cocktail parties.

Fig & Goat Cheese Puff Pastry Roll

Photo: Jamie Vespa, M.S., R.D.

Baked Brie with Jam in Puff Pastry

This best baked Brie recipe is also the easiest.

Serve this decadent yet simple appetizer with apple wedges and crackers and watch it disappear in seconds!

It’s bound to be your new party go-to.

3-ingredient blue cheese & fig bites

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Sweet Potato Chips

Make perfectly crunchy veggie chips at home with this healthy recipe.

Use a mandoline to slice the sweet potatoes extra-thin for the optimum crunch!

If you don’t have cannellini beans, chickpeas work just as well.

brie and apples on a plate

Serve this tasty dip alongside veggies, crackers, pita or pretzels.

3-Ingredient Cranberry-Brie Bites

Baked Brie is a perennially popular appetizer.

Beet Chips

Make perfectly crunchy veggie chips at home with this healthy recipe.

Homemade Sweet Potato Chips

Use a mandoline to slice the beets extra-thin for the optimum crunch!

Made with just three ingredients, these bites come together quickly and present beautifully.

Roasted Pears with Prosciutto

This 3-ingredient finger food is the perfect classy appetizer for your next party.

a recipe photo of the Lemon, Mint & White Bean Dip

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It’s so simple to make yet so elegant and delicious.

Air-Fryer Kale Chips

Homemade kale chips are incredibly easy to make.

Warning: These will go fast!

3-Ingredient Cranberry-Brie Bites

Creamy burrata cheese complements the tangy pesto drizzle.

Refrigerated pesto, or homemade pesto if you have it, lends the best flavors.

For a twist, swap out the basil pesto for sun-dried tomato pesto.

Beet Chips

Microwave Potato Chips

You don’t need a deep fryer to make crispy potato chips.

Crispy, crunchy homemade potato chips with 8 grams less fat per serving than regular chips.

Leave the stems on for the prettiest presentation.

a recipe photo of the Cranberry Brie Bites with Puff Pastries served on a platter

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roasted pears with prosciutto

Air-Fryer Kale Chips

a recipe photo of the Smashed Mushrooms with Pesto and Burrata

Photographer: Brie Goldman, Food Stylist: Skyler Myers, Prop Stylist: Gabriel Greco

a recipe photo of the Cheddar-Apple Cracker Bites

Microwave Potato Chips

Roasted Pears with Brie & Pistachios