Holiday Brie Bites
If you’re looking for a last-minute holiday appetizer, look no further. These cranberry brie bites are fast, easy, and use only three ingredients! Plus this classy combination seems impressive and as though you’ve put a lot of time and effort into them. You can also make them ahead and pop in the oven for zero work the day of your celebration.
How to Make It
This recipe just uses three pre-made ingredients to make it quick and easy. With a can of crescent rolls, a wheel of brie, and a can of cranberry sauce (I used Aldi’s Whole Berry Cranberry Sauce), these brie bites come together in just a few minutes of prep and a 15-minute cook time.
Lay out the crescent rolls on a floured surface (that you don’t mind cutting on) and pinch the seams to create one large piece. Use flour to roll out crescent rolls until they’re about half the thickness.
Cut them into about 20 squares and place each square into greased mini muffin pans. They should look like festive little flowers.
Place a 1/2 inch piece of brie into each crescent roll cup. It might look like not a lot of brie compared to the cups, but the brie will bubble and expand when you cook it, so you don’t want it to be very full to prevent it from boiling over.
Top the brie with 1/2 teaspoon of cranberry. You can also use whatever jam or spread you have on hand like raspberry preserves, plum jam, fig jam, and more.
Bake at 375 degrees for 13 minutes or until the crescent rolls start to look browned.
Holiday Brie Bites
Equipment
- mini muffin tin
Ingredients
- 1/2 wheel brie, cut into 1/2 inch squares
- 1/4 cup cranberry sauce, (or any jam or fig spread)
- 1 can crescent rolls
Instructions
- Lay out the crescent rolls on a floured surface (that you don’t mind cutting on) and pinch the seams to create one large piece. Use flour to roll out crescent rolls until they’re about half the thickness. Cut them into about 20 squares and place each square into greased mini muffin pans.
- Place brie pieces in each cup. Top with about 1/2 teaspoon of cranberry sauce. The crescent rolls may not look very full and it might look like a small piece of brie, but the brie will boil up and expand as it cooks, so be sure not to overfill!
- Bake at 375° for 13 minutes or until crescent rolls look browned. Depending on the size of your brie pieces, you may want to place a large baking sheet under the mini muffin pan in case your brie boils over (I filled my cups too full the first time I made this!).**You can make these ahead of time, store in the fridge, and then reheat for about 7 minutes (or until the brie starts to bubble) in the oven the day of. If you do make them ahead, lower the cook time to 10 minutes so they don’t overbrown when you reheat them.
This is fabulous!!! Wish I would have purchased the Brie and the cranberry today. You can be sure that I will be making this after my next grocery trip! Thank you for sharing!! Happy Thanksgiving
Thank you Linda! You’ll have to save it for another time – but luckily it works for any time you need a special (easy) appetizer! 😊