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Caviar Hearts
While you can splurge on more expensive caviar, this looks pretty and tastes delicious. We used inexpensive supermarket salmon roe, which has the added advantage of being red. If you don’t have a small heart-shaped cookie cutter, cut toast into rounds and use the tip of a knife to form your caviar into a heart-shaped decoration.

Ingredients:
Makes a dozen small caviar hearts

Caviar Hearts
6 slices thin white bread
1/2 cup crème fraiche
1 2-oz jar salmon roe or caviar

Crème Fraiche
1 qt. heavy cream
2 Tbsp. buttermilk


Caviar Hearts
1.
Lightly toast bread. Cut into 12 heart shapes or circles.
2. Top each slice of bread with 1 tsp. crème fraiche and 1/2 tsp. caviar. Arrange on plate to serve.

Crème Fraiche
1. 
In a jar, combine cream and buttermilk. Stir, cover, and put in a warm place (an oven with just the pilot light on is perfect). Let stand about 12 hours, until top is the thickness of sour cream.
2. Stir and refrigerate at least 6 hours and up to 2 weeks.


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