How to Display a Shrimp Cocktail

Shrimp cocktail consists of cold boiled shrimp served with a ketchup and horseradish cocktail sauce. Guests dip the shrimp into the tangy sauce. A staple appetizer at buffets, shrimp cocktails offers a great-tasting, lighter option than rich appetizers. Though a simple dish, it can be lavishly displayed and make a big impression. Add this to my Recipe Box.

Instructions

Serve Individual Glasses

1

Peel the shrimp, but leave the tail on as a handle for holding the shrimp while dunking it into the cocktail sauce.

2

Pour 2 to 3 tablespoons of cocktail sauce into a martini glass for each guest.

3

Hang 5 to 6 shrimp around the rim of the glass with the tails on the outside of the glass. Serve each guest a single martini glass with the shrimp cocktail.

Display in a Floral Arrangement

4

Wrap a snow pea around the widest part of the shrimp and hold it in place with the tines of a cocktail fork.

5

Insert the handle of the cocktail fork into a piece of florist's foam to stand the fork on end with the shrimp at the end of the fork.

6

Arrange silk flowers in the florist's foam around the forks to hide the foam.

7

Place a large bowl of cocktail sauce in front of the foam display with a spoon in it for the guests to spoon the sauce onto their plates.