Cranberry Brie Bites • Simple Tasty Appetizer {+Video} • Two Purple Figs

1. Initially, begin by chopping up the wheel of brie into half an inch measurement chunks. You don’t have to take away the rind as it would soften away.
   
2. Subsequent you’re going to take away the puff pastry from the fridge and mud some flour on the floor. Roll it barely after which take a 2 inch spherical cookie cutter as proven above. 
   
3. Take the cookie cutter and press it down on the puff pastry chopping rounds of pastry sufficient to cowl the chunks of brie. Make sure that to make the most of as a lot area as attainable and minimize up rounds very shut to one another.
4. To make the cranberry brie bites you’ll want both a muffin pan or baking sheet. We want a daily baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
   
5. You’ll begin by dropping a tablespoon of our viral Sizzling Honey Recipe on the backside of the sheet. Sizzling honey and brie are a match made in heaven💛 If you happen to cant do the warmth in scorching honey, then be happy to make use of common honey as nicely. It really works wonderful!
   
6. Now only for further kick, which is elective, we add a sprinkle of chilli flakes. We tolerate warmth too nicely LOL 
   
7. The chunk of brie goes proper on high of that Sizzling Honey.
   
8. You then’ll take a minimize up spherical of puff pastry and canopy the brie. Make sure that to drape the pastry on the edges as nicely to embody the cheese contained in the pastry. Press the edges and edges of the pastry to seal within the cheese and honey filling.
   
9. Now repeat till you could have all of the baking sheet lined, the brie and pastry accomplished.
10. Make a easy egg wash by beating up an egg with a teaspoon of cream very well. Use a pastry to brush over the dough evenly earlier than baking.

Serve Cranberry Brie Bites

Whereas that is elective in fact and really a lot solely becoming for the Holidays, it’s value a attempt! We LOVE making a wreath of child spinach leaves, recent cranberries over a white marble spherical. We additionally love including some Sugared Cranberries.

Make sure that to dot the cranberries in such a approach that they clumped in teams and every group is separated by an inch from the subsequent one. This fashion it appears prettier. Use some recent rosemary leaves as nicely across the wreath.

Dollop some cranberry sauce over the baked brie bites and add some recent rosemary on high.

Cranberry Brie Bites Ideas and FAQ

1. Make sure that your puff pastry is defrosted within the fridge forward of time, as retailer purchased pastry is all the time frozen.
2. You don’t want to chop off the rind of the brie, as it would soften anyway within the oven.
3. If you happen to’re not into spice, you possibly can change the Sizzling Honey with common honey and even jam or cranberry sauce.
4. Whereas you may make the cranberry brie bites recipe in a muffin pan, we want a baking sheet.
5. Flipping the pastry and submitting the wrong way up creates a stupendous crust on the cheese which we LOVE.
6. Make sure that to make use of the right measurement spherical cutter and minimize up the brie into the corect measurement. The pastry needs to be at the least double the scale of the cheese. 
7. Egg wash is important for a golden and crisp pastry. 
8. Cool the pastries earlier than making an attempt to take away them from the baking sheet. This enables the cheese to harden barely.

What Different Varieties of Pastry can I exploit?

You should utilize crescent dough for this. One thing like these Do-it-yourself Dinner Rolls dough as nicely works lovely. And when you’re within the temper for a buttery appetizer, use  our FOOL PROOF Pie Dough recipe!

What kind of Jam pairs with Brie?

Whereas we love the Sizzling Honey or Cranberry sauce, you should use a fruity jam as nicely. Any kind of berry jam, apricot or orange marmalade pair so nicely with brie cheese.

reheat the cranberry brie Bites

We LOVE our air fryer for reheating all the pieces! Easy place them in a 350 air fryer and reheat for 4-5 minutes. If you happen to don’t have an air fryer, then place them in a preheated oven in a baking sheet, cheese aspect up. The oven reheating will take about 10 minutes.

Freezing cranberry brie bites

To freeze this appetizer or make forward of time: put together the recipe and bake. As soon as cooled, retailer them within the fridge and reheat the subsequent day. Or freeze them on a baking sheet, then place the frozen bites in a ziploc bag. To reheat from frozen, be sure to defrost first.