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

1. Initially, begin by reducing up the wheel of brie into half an inch dimension chunks. You don’t have to take away the rind as it is going to 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 reducing rounds of pastry sufficient to cowl the chunks of brie. Make sure that to make the most of as a lot house as doable 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 favor an everyday baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
   
5. You’ll begin by dropping a tablespoon of our viral Scorching Honey Recipe on the backside of the sheet. Scorching honey and brie are a match made in heaven💛 Should you cant do the warmth in scorching honey, then be at liberty to make use of common honey as properly. It really works superb!
   
6. Now only for additional kick, which is elective, we add a sprinkle of chilli flakes. We tolerate warmth too properly LOL 
   
7. The chunk of brie goes proper on prime of that Scorching Honey.
   
8. Then you definately’ll take a minimize up spherical of puff pastry and canopy the brie. Make sure that to drape the pastry on the perimeters as properly to embody the cheese contained in the pastry. Press the perimeters and edges of the pastry to seal within the cheese and honey filling.
   
9. Now repeat till you might 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.

Tips on how to Serve Cranberry Brie Bites

Whereas that is elective in fact and really a lot solely becoming for the Holidays, it’s price a strive! 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 following one. This fashion it appears to be like prettier. Use some recent rosemary leaves as properly across the wreath.

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

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 is going to soften anyway within the oven.
3. Should you’re not into spice, you may change the Scorching 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 favor a baking sheet.
5. Flipping the pastry and submitting the wrong way up creates a good looking crust on the cheese which we LOVE.
6. Make sure that to make use of the proper dimension spherical cutter and minimize up the brie into the corect dimension. 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 permits the cheese to harden barely.

What Different Varieties of Pastry can I exploit?

You should utilize crescent dough for this. One thing like these Home made Dinner Rolls dough as properly works stunning. And for those who’re within the temper for a buttery appetizer, use  our FOOL PROOF Pie Dough recipe!

What sort of Jam pairs with Brie?

Whereas we love the Scorching Honey or Cranberry sauce, you need to use a fruity jam as properly. Any sort of berry jam, apricot or orange marmalade pair so properly with brie cheese.

Tips on how to 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. Should you 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 following day. Or freeze them on a baking sheet, then place the frozen bites in a ziploc bag. To reheat from frozen, be sure you defrost first.