Cranberry Brie Bites – Mel’s Kitchen Cafe

These cranberry brie bites are festive, straightforward and DELICIOUS! Puff pastry, brie, cranberry sauce and a easy topping make such a tasty mixture!

Cranberry + brie cheese is unbelievable, particularly when wrapped up in puff pastry!

And these pleasant little puff pastry bites are all the time a success for events, appetizers, or anytime. I personally make them typically only for…me. I like them a lot.

A Observe About Puff Pastry

This recipe requires one sheet of puff pastry. We’re not bothering with selfmade puff pastry right here (bear in mind, that is an straightforward recipe), however if you wish to go that route, please accomplish that! #rockstar

Roll the sheet of puff pastry out into a skinny rectangle and minimize into 24 squares.

A Observe About Cranberry Sauce

Cranberry sauce is a tart, candy key part of this recipe.

Within the recipe, I’ve given an excellent straightforward selfmade cranberry sauce recipe. You need to use your individual recipe for cranberry sauce and even cranberry sauce from the can, if that’s your style desire.

You’ll want just a bit over a cup of cranberry sauce for the recipe.

An excessive amount of cranberry will overwhelm the brie, so don’t be too heavy handed with it.

A Observe About Brie Cheese

Talking of brie cheese…let’s speak about it!

The largest query with brie cheese is whether or not to take away the rind or not. Whereas the rind doesn’t impart noticeable taste, I believe the brie is creamier with out it (I do know not everybody will agree with me – let’s nonetheless be mates).

I exploit a pointy knife to shave off a lot of the rind with out digging into the dear cheese an excessive amount of. You possibly can see from the image under that there are nonetheless little nubbins of rind on the cheese, however most of it’s gonzo.

Professional tip: since brie is a delicate cheese, freezing the wheel of brie for a couple of minutes or coating your knife blade with cooking spray will assist the slicing course of.

Press every chunk of brie right into a cute, little spherical disc so it nestles proper into the muffin cup.

Assembling the Cranberry Brie Bites

1. Press every sq. of puff pastry into the underside of a greased mini muffin cup.
2. Pop in a bit of brie.
3. High with a teaspoon of cranberry sauce.
4. Sprinkle finely chopped pecans, brown sugar, and coarse, kosher salt on prime.
5. Bake till golden and scorching.

The brie might bubble up and out of the puff pastry cups a bit bit. That’s okay!

To reduce this, you possibly can put the cranberry sauce within the backside and the brie on prime, however I don’t suppose the bites are fairly as fairly that manner.

So I personally champion the messy look (type of like my day by day outfit of joggers + messy bun: #keepinitreal), and I like the golden bits of brie across the edges.

Find out how to Serve

These cranberry brie bites are tasty served heat or at room temperature.

It really works greatest to allow them to cool within the muffin tin for 2-3 minutes after which use a butter knife to softly raise out of the pan onto a serving tray.

A Excellent Little Deal with

Are these cranberry brie bites a deal with or a snack? An appetizer or a facet dish? 😉 I’ll allow you to resolve!

As irresistible as they’re to me (as in, I can just about eat your entire bite-size batch with no second’s hesitation), I put them within the deal with class. However they actually do make an exquisite appetizer or snack.

The tart, candy, creamy, tacky, flaky, buttery combo is so extremely scrumptious! A favourite vacation “deal with” for positive!

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Cranberry Brie Bites

Yield: 24 bites

Prep Time: 25 minutes

Prepare dinner Time: 20 minutes

Complete Time: 45 minutes

Cranberry Brie Bites:

• 1 sheet frozen puff pastry, thawed
• 8 ounces brie cheese
• 1 ¼ cup cranberry sauce (selfmade model under)
• ¼ cup finely chopped pecans
• Brown sugar
• Coarse, kosher salt

Home made Cranberry Sauce:

• 1 cup (4 ounces, 113 g) contemporary cranberries
• ¼ cup granulated sugar
• 2 tablespoons pure maple syrup
• 1 teaspoon contemporary orange zest
• 1 tablespoon water

• Preheat the oven to 375 levels F. Flippantly grease a 24-cup mini muffin tin with cooking spray.

• Roll the puff pastry out between two sheets of parchment paper or on a frivolously floured counter to about 10-X14-inches. Minimize the puff pastry sheet lengthwise into 4 strips after which crosswise into six strips to make 24 squares.

• Gently press every sq. into the cups of the ready muffin tin.

• Minimize the brie into 24 items, about 3/4- to 1-inch in dimension (eradicating the rind is elective; I like to chop as a lot off as attainable with out digging into the cheese). If the brie is just too delicate to chop simply, use a knife coated in cooking spray to chop and/or freeze the brie for a couple of minutes.

• Press each bit of brie right into a spherical, thick disc form and place within the backside of every muffin cup.

• Add a teaspoon or so of cranberry sauce on prime of every piece of brie adopted by a sprinkle of pecans, brown sugar and salt.

• Place the mini muffin tin on a foil-lined baking sheet to catch any spillovers and bake for 18-20 minutes till the puff pastry is golden and the cheese is scorching.

• Take away from the oven and let cool within the pan for 2-3 minutes. Use a butter knife to softly raise every puff pastry chew from the muffin tin to a platter. Serve heat or at room temperature.

• For the selfmade cranberry sauce, mix all of the components in a small saucepan. Convey to a simmer and cook dinner, stirring typically, till the cranberries have burst and softened and the sauce is thick and syrupy (it should thicken extra because it cools). Let the sauce cool to room temp earlier than utilizing within the recipe.

Serving: 1 chew, Energy: 109kcal, Carbohydrates: 9g, Protein: 3g, Fats: 7g, Saturated Fats: 3g, Ldl cholesterol: 9mg, Sodium: 85mg, Fiber: 0.4g, Sugar: 3g

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