This past weekend I co-hosted a baby shower for my dear friend Kim. Kim and her husband, Doug, just adopted Zachary, a precious baby boy. So this shower was what we in the South call, a Sip-and-See Shower, where you come by, sip some lovely beverages, see the new baby, and shower the new family with love. It was all totally delightful.

Now all baby showers require five basics elements from the hosts – fabulous finger food, some pastel-colored punch (usually made with sherbet and ginger ale), a few cutesy baby-themed decorations, a creative baby game or two, and adequate seating. As the recipe director for SeaPak guess which element I am usually assigned? You guessed it – food!

Now in the past I have pulled out all the stops cooking for showers, coming up with all sorts of creative hors d’oeuvres to tempt my friends’ taste buds. This time however there was one big difference. I myself am a new mom to a beautiful five-month-old baby boy.

As all you moms out there know, my prep and cooking time for any occasion just got cut down to about thirty minutes at best – or the amount of time Logan will sit and happily entertain himself in the bouncy seat while I cook.

Kim is a very special friend, so I really wanted to make something especially delicious to bring to her shower. So the question was how to achieve Martha Stewart perfection on a Rachel Ray time schedule? (Oh the self-imposed pressure to impress!)

What did I come up with? Mini Crab Quiches! Nothing says brunch like an egg dish and nothing more quickly makes a dish gourmet than adding some seafood to the mix.

This nearly-homemade recipe took me about six minutes to assemble and 13 minutes to bake. I even had time to clean up the dishes before Logan got bored! Martha Stewart had nothing on me this weekend! As for the mini crab quiches, they were a total hit at the shower – not a one left over!

So, mini crab cake quiches are definitely going to be one of my go-to recipes when I need to bring an appetizer to share but have no time to cook. What your quick-and-easy dishes do you pull out when you need to whip up some finger foods in a hurry and still want to impress the masses?

Mini Crab Cake Quiches

• 1 package SeaPak® Maryland Style Crab Cakes, thawed
• 45 mini phyllo cups
• 4 eggs
• 1/2 cup heavy cream
• 4 oz Gruyere cheese, shredded (about 1 cup)
• 1/8 teaspoon garlic salt
• Dash nutmeg
• Cracked black pepper

PREHEAT oven to 350 degrees.

WHISK together eggs, cream, garlic salt, nutmeg and black pepper.

PLACE phyllo cups on a baking sheet. Crumble crab cakes into phyllo cups. Spoon egg mixture into phyllo cups (about 1 tablespoon per cup). Sprinkle cheese over each egg mixture.

BAKE 13 minutes or until fully cooked.