I am just so excited that Christmas is only a little over a week away! I love the idea of getting together with friends and family around the holiday season and entertaining. I don’t mean juggling for guests, I mean putting out a gorgeous display of food and cocktails for everyone to enjoy. I won’t be hosting anyone at my home this year for Christmas but I will be bringing appetizers to other gatherings. I’m all about a delicious cheese board, mixed nuts, fruit and honey. But my all time favorite appetizer are Baked Brie Bites which could not be any easier to prepare!
When you’re preparing a cheese and appetizer board just keep in mind that presentation is everything! You want things to be easy to grab in single portions and a variety of sweet and savory options. I love a good mix of cheeses, grapes and apples, almonds and dark chocolate. One of my favorite news ways to display this beautiful arrangement is on my Driftwood Serving Boards from JK Adams. This board screams elegance and is the centerpiece for your appetizer table.
Since I’m all about baked brie, but find an entire baked brie wheel hard to serve, I decided to come up with Baked Brie Bites for easy snacking. They are a simple appetizer of puff pastry, brie, fig jam and pecans. I love how the melted cheese brings together all of these flavors in one bite. If you have a round cookie cutter you can cut the bites into circles with that, otherwise cutting the sheet of puff pastry into squares will work as well.
I’m thinking that you’re love this Driftwood Serving Board as much as I do so I’m super excited that JK Adams is offering this to one of my lucky readers! Enter for your chance to win below and try out the recipe for Bake Brie Bites this holiday season!
- 1 package frozen puff pastry, thawed (2 sheets)
- 1 small wheel brie cheese, cut into bite sized pieces
- ⅓ cup chopped pecans
- 1 tbsp. butter
- 2 tbsp. brown sugar
- ⅓ cup fig jam
- Preheat oven to 375°. On a clean surface, roll out puff pastry dough lightly. Using a round cookie cutter, cut out circles out of the dough and divide them between two baking sheets. Bake for 10-12 minutes, until puffed up and slightly golden.
- Meanwhile, in a saute pan over medium heat, add butter or oil and stir in pecans. Add brown sugar and a pinch of salt and stir, allowing to toast for about 3 minutes. Pull the tarts out of the oven and let them cool slightly. (Note: some of them may get very puffed up; that is fine. Just push them down a bit when you are putting the other ingredients on top.)
- Top each tart with apricot preserve, followed by a small spoonful of the pecan mixture, and finally a piece of brie. Put back in the oven for another 3 minutes until cheese is melted. Serve immediately.
I love a good charcuterie platter. I could eat it all day long.
My favorite holiday appetizer is warm brie topped with candied pecans and honey, served with a baguette!
I’ve been dying for one of these boards!!! I think the best app is a big cheese platter with all the fixins!
Our family likes to keep it simple with really good cheeses and crackers, sushi and hummus with veggies. On special occasions I’ll make a hot dip. I have a recipe for a pizza dip that’s yummy.
Love different cheeses, crackers and grapes.
Cheese. Enough said.
Bruschetta
I adore mini meatballs – such a classic!
I’m totally old school but I love pigs in a blanket that my sister makes every year! She’s not a cook (at all!) so as a food blogger, it warms my heart to see her in there making something!
We love liver lol
I love bacon wrapped oysters!
I love to serve my olive cheese balls for the holidays! Your baked brie bites would compliment them so well. Thanks!
spinach dip
I love a mix of cheese, dried fruits, nuts and olives. Although if someone showed up to a party with a hot melty cheese dip I would not pass it up.
Two are my famous cheese straws..no southern pastry is complete with out these..also stuffed sausage mushroom caps and crab sherry dip…so many yummy apps.
Your recipe looks great too..when doing a cheese board I love a walnut fig Brie encroute
I love this board! I collect driftwood..so fantastic!
I love 7 layer dip
I like prawns with cocktail sauce
My favorite Holiday appetizer is always Brie en croute.
love holiday sliders
Cheese and crackers
I love the wheel brie cheese bites and will enjoy making them for the holidays! 🙂
My favorite holiday appetizer is hot crab or hot shrimp dip with mini crusty bread slices. (By hot I mean temperature not spicy.)
Fresh fruit, hard cheese, and olives!
A cheese platter with crackers and grapes
I love having Chex mix on the holidays…and we do a baked brie with pears that is amazing
My favorite is an olive and cheese plate with crackers
stuffed mushrooms
BBQ meatballs!
7 layer bean dip
stuffed mushrooms!
cheese platter
I do this but with hot pepper jelly.
Cheese, sausage and crackers
There are several, but for whatever reason, I really look forward to Stuffed Mushrooms!
I’m from New Orleans, you can’t have a party without Pimento Cheese Spread (home made of course!) – called ‘Pimena Cheese’.
These baked brie bites will be on our holiday menu for Christmas.
We generally will have cheese, crackers, an assortment of raw veggies, and sometimes some cream cheese rangoons. If we are going to cook anything, I want these baked brie bites.
LOVE cheese balls! Going to try a cranberry walnut cheese ball recipe this week actually…..
I am a big fan of mini quiche!
i love making spinach arrtichoke dip.
We love anything spicy! Spiced crackers or pepper jelly dip.
Love Brie. This looks so good!
I love spinach dip.
I love bringing a spicy jam/jelly, like pepper jelly or a fruit jelly with a little horseradish mixed in, and pouring it over a block of cream cheese. I serve it with some crackers or pita chips.
My tweet is at https://twitter.com/amkj2002/status/811791834217385986
I accidentally posted a hashtag to something else somehow and hit enter before I realized it.
the recipe for meatballs in the cranberry sauce
We love stuffed mushrooms or stuffed jalapenos.
We always have a cream cheese tree covered with pepper jelly.
Love quiche
Deep fried cauliflower
I love bacon wrapped scallops and raw oysters! Delicious!!