Pumpkin Baked brie
Crispy flaky puff pastry dough is filled with warm pumpkin butter and brie cheese melted to perfection. This makes a great fall or holiday appetizer served wtih some crackers, fruits and nuts.
Ingredients
- 1 sheet puff pastry dough
- 1 wheel brie cheese
- 3 tbsp pumpkin butter or apple butter homemade or store bought
- 1 egg
- 1 sage leaf
- 1 honey pretzel twist
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 375 degrees F.
- Line a baking dish with parchment paper and roll out the puff pastry sheet on top.
- Spoon about 3 tbsps of pumpkin butter onto the center of the puff pastry.
- Place the brie cheese wheel on top of the pumpkin butter spread.
- Draw a circle with a butter knife around the cheese, leaving about 2 inches of dough around the border.
- Bring the edges of the puff pastry dough to the top so that the whole wheel of cheese is covered.
- Cut 5 strings of kitchen twine in equal length and lay out on the parchment paper in a spider’s web formation.
- Place the dough wrapped cheese on top of the twine and bring up each opposite side of twine, tying in the center.
- Make an egg wash with 1 egg and water, whisk it together and brush over the top of the puff pastry dough.
- Bake in the oven for about 20 minutes or so, until the dough is golden brown.
- Remove from the oven, cutting and discarding the twine.
- Place a honey pretzel twist on top for the stem and sage leaf.
- Serve immediately with crackers, apples and some nuts.