Cream Cheese Lobster Appetizer
This phyllo cream cheese lobster appetizer recipe is mouth-wateringly delicious! Seriously, it’s little bites of scrumptious, creamy lobster goodness in a flaky cup!
Are you an appetizer type of person? What I mean by that is, could you make a meal out of eating only appetizers? Or are you a person who could be satisfied with eating a few bites of appetizer but who would never make a meal of them?
I’m an appetizer type of gal. But I prefer an assortment to nosh from.
Here are some of the appetizers I could eat as my meal:
What is your favorite appetizer to eat? Leave me a comment as I’d love to know!
Usually I blog recipes that I’ve made 3 zillion times or I blog about a recipe that I test a few times before I deem it good enough to publish for my readers!
Well, this is the first time I’ve made this one. The reason I didn’t test it before posting it is because it’s based on another of my recipes that’s tried and true. I modified my warm crab dip recipe for this phyllo cream cheese lobster appetizer so that it’s different and still delicious!!
Aren’t I clever?!
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How to make the lobster appetizer
Pre-step
Get a medium saucepan and jelly roll pan.
Step one
Gather the ingredients – lobster, freshly cooked bacon, cream cheese, mustard, garlic powder, onion powder, horseradish, mayo and Worcestershire sauce.
Step two
Place cream cheese and mayo in the saucepan and set the heat on medium/low. With a butter knife, cut the cream cheese in chunks and stir as the mixture melts.
Step three
Add mustard, garlic powder, onion powder, Worcestershire sauce and horseradish and stir every few minutes to help it melt.
Step four
Cut up the lobster and shred some sharp cheddar and Colby cheese. Take out the sherry.
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Step five
Once the cream cheese mixture has melted and combined, add the lobster, bacon and cheese and stand there, stirring the mixture together until it’s melted and combined.
Step six
Place phyllo cups on the jelly roll pan.
These phyllo cups are so awesome. I love to use them. They are fairly inexpensive and come in little boxes with 15 cups. If I were having a party, I’d double this batch and buy 30 cups, but since it was just Christopher and I, one box was enough.
Here is the lobster cream cheese mixture still in the pan and the phyllo cups behind!
Step six
Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and fill the phyllo cups with the lobster cream cheese mixture.
You can overfill them without worrying that the mixture will bubble off onto the jelly roll pan.
Step seven
Bake for 10 minutes.
One thing I love about phyllo cups is that they always stay crispy. They are precooked so you can eat them straight out of the freezer if you’re filling them with something you don’t have to bake and as expected, they’re crispy. But even after filling them with the wet lobster cream cheese mixture and baking them, which I thought might make them soften, but they stayed crispy.
I plate the lobster appetizer and gather some other easy appetizers like chips and salsa and the lobster cream cheese mixture I couldn’t fit in the phyllo cups. You will notice it in the little glass bowl.
That’s the beauty of this recipe: it yields extra lobster mixture that you can eat by the spoonful, dip your chips into or slather over a bagel, bread or crackers.
Yum.
I took this next angle because I wanted you to see my spread!! Notice the wine?
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I hope you enjoyed this lobster appetizer recipe! It’s so delicious and perfect as a quick appetizer for your next dinner party!
And as always, may all your dishes be delish!
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Phyllo Cream Cheese Lobster Appetizer
Ingredients
The goodies!
- 8 ounces cream cheese 1 block
- 1/3 cup mayonnaise
- 1 teaspoon mustard I use Guldens
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1 teaspoon horseradish
- 5 ounces or more of lobster meat fresh or frozen, cut up
- 2 tablespoons dry sherry
- 1/2 cup sharp cheddar shredded
- 1/4 cup Colby cheese shredded
- 2 slices pre-cooked bacon cut into small pieces
- 15 phyllo cups (15 count)
Instructions
Make It!
- Place cream cheese and mayo in medium saucepan and turn heat under it to medium/low.
- Let mixture melt a little before adding mustard, garlic powder, onion powder, Worcestershire sauce and horseradish
- Stir until melted and combined
- Add lobster, bacon, sherry and cheese and stir until combined
- Preheat oven 350
- Take phyllo cups out of freezer and fill each cup with lobster mixture (you will have extra)
- Place filled phyllo cups on medium jelly roll pan and bake for 10 minutes
- Plate phyllo lobster appetizers
- Eat
- Smile
- Enjoy
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- I used 5 ounces of lobster meat because that is what was in the container I bought
- Double it if you are having a dinner party or triple it if it is a big dinner or cocktail party
- The calories listed below are for ALL of the lobster cream cheese mixture; not just the lobster filled phyllo cups
I love pre-shelled lobster! This is a fabulous appetizer. Everyone loved it.
Thanks, Sarah! I love pre-shelled too.
We really did not like it! I cut the recipe in half because I was only serving four people and I wanted to try it first before springing it on 16 people at Christmas. And I am glad I did. The cream cheese overwhelms the lobster and my husband could not even taste the lobster! And it has more shredded cheese too which adds to the heaviness. Lobster is pretty expensive meat to do that to it. I am going to look for a much lighter sauce recipe perhaps with cream and no mayonnaise or cream cheese. And I think I would sprinkle the shredded cheese on top (less of it) and not mix it in the sauce.
Aww, I’m so sorry, Lynn. Thanks for your feedback and I’m sad it didn’t work for you!
This one is a good appetizer. Everyone enjoyed it. So tasty.
Thanks Parth!!
I love this!!! A great way of using lobster in an appetizer. Absolutely perfect!
Thanks, Emma!!
This was so impressive and everyone loved it.
Hehe Sue! Thanks, that means a lot to me.
Eric loved this. I made it as a surprise and his eyes popped out of his head. Thanks so much.
Hehe Beth! Thanks so much!
This appetizer was so delicious… It’s all gone and now I wish I had some right now!
Thanks so much Monica!! 🙂
I absolutely could eat appetizers for my meal. Especially this appetizer. So delicious.
Yay! A kindred spirit Marisa!!
My mother has made these with smoked salmon as long as I can remember – I made this recipe for her and now she wants to make this all the time!
Thanks so much Julie!! Mmm. Smoked salmon. I’ll have to try that!
wonderful appetizer! it was so delish????
Thank you Prasanna!
Seriously delicious! I had a hard time sharing these! Next time, I’ll make it for myself.
Thanks so much Stacey. I am with you on that, sharing is hard when it comes to lobster.
My family loved this. I’m making this again on my next family visit.
That’s awesome Lois! Thanks for the comment!
Although I’m not really a lobster fan and usually leave it for others, but I LOVE this. It’s really tasty and so easy to eat.
Thanks Christopher! If I knew you were going to eat so many, I’d have made more 😉
Do you use raw or cooked lobster? I plan to make this and don’t want to overcook the lobster. Thanks
I use cooked lobster Lynn. I’ve never tried it with raw. I say, cook the lobster before hand. The amount of time you cook it all won’t make the lobster tough.
can you make the lobster filling in advance and then freeze to pull out later?
Thanks
Kelly, I’ve done that a few times. Once it separated a tad but a good stir helped incorporate it again and the other time it was fine. I hope you enjoy them.
I made these for Mother’s Day and they were a big hit. I’ll need to double the recipe when making them in the future.
I’m so glad you enjoyed it. It’s a appetizer that everyone keeps asking me to make! Thanks for commenting, Denie and letting me know.
Could I make this the night before? Then just before heating stir in the bacon and lobster. I have to make apps for a guy’s golf weekend. I was thinking about nixing the phyllo cup and just heating up the dip and serve on crostini.
You can definitely make the night before, Gordie. And it’s perfect on crostini or even with chips like the Ritz brand. Have a great golf weekend! 🙂
Can u make the lobster filling early and put it in the phylo cups a few hours later
Yes, indeed, Jackie! That’s how I do it when I make it.
Can I use frozen pastry cups instead of phyllo ones? I found phyllo sheets but no cups anywhere here. 🙁
I believe you can, it just may take longer to bake, so keep your eye on it while it’s baking.
Delicious and easy to make appetizer! Already have people asking me for the recipe!
That’s awesome, Candy. I’m glad they were a hit! Thanks for letting me know.