About
When welcoming guests during the holiday season, it is wonderful to have a quick, delicious, and elegant appetizer on hand for them to enjoy. Fall Bites are an easy, beautiful, and hunger-curbing snack that will keep them content while they anticipate all the other amazing food on the menu. Starting with the always-dependable puff pastry, you then add a cube of amazing Brie cheese, and a dollop of sweetly tart cranberry sauce that gets baked until golden-brown. Rapidly, you have a bite-sized piece of joy for everyone to marvel over. Fall Bites bring the season of great flavors to the forefront and please your guests with that Brie-and-cranberry combo everyone craves. Welcome to Fall!
Ingredients
- flour, to taste, for dusting a work surface
- 1 sheet frozen puff pastry, thawed, according to the package directions
- 4 ounces Brie cheese, chilled and cut into 24 pieces
- 1 cup cranberry sauce
Directions
Step 1 -Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
Step 2 -Generously coat a 24-cup mini muffin tin with nonstick cooking spray.
Step 3 -Using the extra flour, lightly dust a work surface. Then, place the puff pastry on the floured surface and use a rolling pin to roll it into a 10x15-inch rectangle.
Step 4 -Use a sharp knife or pizza wheel to cut the puff pastry dough rectangle into 24 2-1/2-inch squares, 4 rows of 6 squares.
Step 5 -Carefully add 1 of the puff pastry squares into each of the prepared muffin cups.
Step 6 -Add 1 piece of the Brie cheese to each cup and top each with 2 teaspoons of the cranberry sauce.
Step 7 -Tightly cover the muffin tin with plastic wrap and refrigerate, about 15 minutes.
Step 8 -Discard the plastic wrap from the muffin tin and bake until the cheese has melted and the pastry is golden, about 16-18 minutes.
Step 9 -Transfer the bites to a wire rack and let them cool in the muffin tin, about 10 minutes.
Step 10 -Serve.
