Pumpkin Bread Topped with Apples and Sausage

Ingredients

• 1 loaf pumpkin bread (or any nut bread of your
• choice)
• 1 cube unsalted butter, softened
• 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 3 large crisp apples, unpeeled & sliced thin
• 3 large sausages, of your choice, precooked, sliced 1/4" pieces
• 1 bunch Italian parsley

Method

• Slice bread from the bottom, up, 1/4" for each slice making 3-4 slices depending on the height of the loaf. You should have long horizontal slices.
• Mix the butter and cheese together until spreadable. Spread a 1/8" smear of this mixture on each slice of bread.
• Top the cream cheese/butter spread with thinly sliced apples. Place the remaining spread in pastry bag and dot each slice down the middle with a dab of spread every one inch or so (this will help the sausage adhere).
• Now, go down and add one sausage slice to the dabs. Cut through the horizontal slices evenly between the sausages to create a singular serving.
• Finish each serving with a pastry bag floret and a leaf of Italian parsley. Viola!!
• Note: Additional fruit, cranberries, chutney or a touch of brandy can be added to the cream cheese/butter mixture if desired.

Notes

• Description:
• "This is a wonderful hors d'euvre that is simple and great for a large
• crowd."
• SERVINGS: 24
• SOURCE: David Monn