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Tomato Cream Cheese Tulips Appetizer

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*This is not sponsored. Just happily sharing a pretty, but fairly easy recipe for all moms this upcoming Mother’s Day with this tulips appetizer recipe.

With Mother’s Day quickly approaching, I couldn’t resist sharing an easy, but very pretty tulips appetizer recipe to make mom’s day that much extra special.

I mean what mom wouldn’t enjoy getting flowers in some form, especially tulips in the spring time. Well here is the perfect foodie recipe to celebrate mom, but still allowing you to gift her with tulips flowers. But these flowers aren’t flowers that go in a vase though.

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Instead these are tulips flowers made from yummy veggies to actually be eaten by all.

Tomato Cream Cheese Tulips

This tulips recipe was originally shared with me by The Hotel Saugatuck, which is an 18-room luxury bed and breakfast with stunning views of Lake Kalamazoo, offering modern amenities, mere blocks from the vintage reminiscent small-town of Saugatuck, Michigan, and minutes from Douglas.

Built in 1865, The Hotel Saugatuck, formerly the Twin Gables Inn, is the only original mill in the area still standing from the busy lumbering era. Also, it is now comprised of a dozen rooms in the historic hotel and three duplex cottages, each with two guestrooms.

The Hotel Saugatuck

Plus, all rooms feature king sized beds, private bathrooms, Jason Hydrotherapy Tubs with Micro-silk Technology, in-room breakfast, in-room dessert, fireplaces, and individual climate control. Also, privacy and individual attention define The Hotel Saugatuck experience.

Tomato Cream Cheese Tulips

But if you can’t get away for Mother’s Day to The Hotel Saugatuck, then here is a way to enjoy a little something from it in the comfort of your own home with Tomato Cream Cheese Tulips Recipe.

Tomato Cream Cheese Tulips

Once again, there you have it with the perfect tulips floral and veggies’ recipe to enjoy this Mother’s Day.

Tomato Cream Cheese Tulips

Tomato Cream Cheese Tulips
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Tomato Cream Cheese Tulips

A Mother's Day Floral Tulips Veggie Recipe

Ingredients

  • 1 pint grape tomatoes
  • 1 package, 8oz cream cheese
  • 2 bunches green onion
  • 1 large garlic clove
  • 10 chives
  • Juice of 1/2 lemon
  • pinch kosher salt

Instructions

  1. Cut off the roots and ends of the green onion
  2. Let cream cheese sit out for 1/2 hour to get to room temperature. Then chop chives and garlic together using an electric mixer. Next whip the cream cheese, chives, garlic, and salt until blended evenly. Add lemon juice and blend into mixture.
  3. Using a skewer, poke a hole in the stem side of each tomato. Keeping the stem side down, make a cross (2 slices) 1/2 way down the tomato using a small spoon (or the tip of an old fruit peeler) scoop out the seeds from the inside of tomato.
  4. Take a pastry bag and tip, fill the cut side of the tomato with cream cheese, and insert the green onion into the hole at the stem end of the tomato.

Notes


Adapted from The Hotel Saugatuck

© Janine

What is your favorite Mother’s Day Recipe?

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About Janine

Janine is a published author of the books, The Mother of All Meltdowns and Only Trollops Shave Above the Knee. She has been featured on The Huffington Post, Mamapedia, Today Parenting Team and SheKnows. She also runs her own graphic design company at J9 Designs.

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  1. Seana Turner says

    Those are really cute! Not sure I have a favorite Mother’s Day recipe. Usually we go out. If my husband were to cook, it would either be spaghetti or pancakes because those are the two things he knows how to make:)

    • Janine says

      Thank Bill and I admit I didn’t always love tomatoes. I actually acquired a taste during my first pregnancy as crazy as that sounds! Happy Thursday to you, too now 🙂

  7. Mary says

    I’ve seen, and have event eaten, tomato cream cheese tulips but I’ve never made them myself. Of course, you made it look easy as pie. I wonder why people say that pie isn’t that easy to make lol. The Hotel Saugatuck looks amazing, I would love to say one of the cottages.

  8. Tamara says

    I can’t believe how pretty they are! Excellent job. As for my favorite Mother’s Day recipe, just a brunch buffet. I know that’s not a recipe but it’s the combination of foods. These would be good with breakfast in bed!

  9. Aunt Gloria says

    What a great idea! I love that the “tulips” can be enjoyed as a food snack and they look so pretty! They certainly would add a nice touch to any dinner table. xxoo

  12. AnnMarie John says

    Kristal made something like this for me a few years ago when she did a course in high school. They actually taste really good. I might make this myself. Thanks for the recipe and the info on the hotel.

  13. Diane Roark says

    JANINE,

    The hotel sounds like such a nice relaxing getaway. It is beautiful and I love your tomato tulips. They are so adorable. Great Idea to help make Mother’s Day special.

    Blessings,
    Diane Roark

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