These cranberry brie puff pastry tarts are altogether candy, savory, salty, buttery, and flaky. You need to use store-bought puff pastry, however in the event you can spare a couple of hours for the dough to sit back within the fridge, I urge you to do this surprisingly easy home made puff pastry as a substitute. Completed with a sparkle of coarse sugar and flaky sea salt, these tacky handheld tartlets will steal the present at any vacation gathering.
As we speak we’re taking a pie hiatus (pie-atus?!) from dessert with these cranberry brie puff pastry tarts. Pies and tarts shouldn’t be restricted to dessert—that’s why we will get pleasure from recipes like quiche, tacky vegetable tart, and hen pot pie. As we speak’s personal-sized tartlets are excellent as an appetizer earlier than the primary meal, or supplied on a tray at a cocktail celebration.
Why You’ll Love These Cranberry Brie Puff Pastry Tarts
- Texture: You’ll be able to truly hear the crispy texture of baked puff pastry. Whenever you chew into it, the delicately gentle layers crackle as they separate, a full-on sensory expertise! That crispy flaky texture holds a mushy inside—melty brie cheese and jammy cranberries.
- Taste: Buttery, creamy brie cheese pairs superbly with candy, fruity cranberry sauce with hints of orange. A sprinkling of coarse sugar, flaky sea salt, and contemporary thyme take all these flavors to new heights. You can even add pecans for a bit nuttiness. (It’s possible you’ll have already got sufficient nuttiness at your vacation gatherings, however a bit extra couldn’t harm, proper? 😉 )
- Ease: Making the cranberry sauce may be very simple, and you are able to do it forward of time. Should you use store-bought puff pastry dough, your entire recipe is fast and handy for newbie bakers. With the home made puff pastry dough, I’d categorize this tart as intermediate-level baking. It’s not sophisticated in any respect; it simply requires shaping and exact folding.
Look how flaky! That is my home made puff pastry dough.
You Can Make the Puff Pastry From Scratch
You need to use store-bought puff pastry for these tarts, however home made puff pastry is next-level good. The pictured cranberry brie tarts are constituted of the identical handmade tough puff pastry dough I take advantage of for berry turnovers, butternut squash tart, and cinnamon palmiers. A whole lot of readers have tried the home made dough and are pleasantly shocked with its ease. (It was a neighborhood baking problem recipe one 12 months!) Should you discover a couple of hours, that may simply be damaged up over a pair days, attempt the home made dough. It’s so value it! You’ll be able to watch a video tutorial within the tough puff pastry submit.
Extra About This Shortcut Pastry Dough
- 5 Straightforward Components: Flour, Salt, Sugar, Butter, and Water
- No Yeast, No Laminating: Not like the breakfast pastries dough, this dough doesn’t require any yeast, and in contrast to croissants and conventional puff pastry, this dough doesn’t require laminating with a separate layer of butter.
- Flatten & Fold Dough: Flatten dough after which chill within the fridge for a minimum of 2 hours. After that 1st refrigeration, flatten and fold the dough like a enterprise letter 6x. Chill within the fridge 1 extra time for a minimum of quarter-hour. After that, the dough is able to use for this recipe.
Right here’s All the things You Want for As we speak:
Make Your Selfmade Cranberry Sauce
Have you ever made this cranberry sauce earlier than? It’s a household favourite, and it’s actually fast and simple. For these tarts, I halved the recipe since you don’t want as a lot (this model yields a heaping 1/2 cup, or 180g), however be at liberty to make the complete recipe from that submit in case you are additionally going to be serving cranberry sauce along with your meal. You may make this forward of time because it retains nicely within the fridge.
Right here’s what you must make it:
- Cranberries
- Water
- Orange (juice + zest)
- Sugar (or brown sugar)
- Vanilla Extract
FAQ: Can I Use Frozen Cranberries? You need to use contemporary or frozen cranberries (not dried). If utilizing frozen, no want to completely thaw—simply rinse them with water earlier than utilizing.
When you will have your puff pastry dough and cranberry sauce prepared, seize the remaining elements:
- Egg Wash – 1 egg crushed with a bit milk or water.
- Brie Cheese – You want about 6 ounces or 170g of brie cheese. You don’t must splurge, any delicate double cream or triple cream brie will do.
- Coarse Sugar & Flaky Sea Salt
- Pecans – Nuts are optionally available.
FAQ: Ought to I Depart the Rind on the Brie?
Cheese aficionados say sure, completely. The bloomy rind is there deliberately and its earthy taste is supposed to enrich the mushy cheese inside. However you’re in command of your flaky little cheese tarts, so if you wish to lower the rind off, go forward. The tarts shall be tasty both means.
Learn how to Assemble the Cranberry Brie Tarts
Roll out the dough to be *about* 12×16 inches:
Lower the dough into 12 roughly equal 4-inch squares. A pizza cutter is a useful device for this. Brush egg wash on prime of every, after which switch them to a 12-cup standard-size muffin pan.
Squares don’t should be excellent; mine by no means are!
Place a slice/piece of brie, about 1/2 ounce or 14g, within the heart of every dough-lined muffin cup. Add 2 heaping teaspoons of cranberry sauce on prime of every.
Gently fold in every nook of the dough squares towards the facilities of the tarts, tucking in that scrumptious filling. (Night time-night!) Sprinkle a bit little bit of coarse sugar excessive of every one (candy goals!) and so they’re able to bake. 🙂
If including pecans, wait and add them midway via the baking time, to make sure they don’t burn.
Don’t Neglect Your Ending Touches!
You’re nearly completed.
After the cranberry brie tarts have completed baking, sprinkle some chopped contemporary thyme and flaky sea salt on prime, and serve instantly. They style greatest heat, however that shouldn’t be an issue… in my expertise, they’ve by no means lasted lengthy sufficient to get chilly!!
I hope you LOVE these.
Description
These cranberry brie tarts come along with puff pastry dough, brie cheese, and home made cranberry sauce. You need to use store-bought puff pastry, however in the event you can spare a couple of hours for the dough to sit back within the fridge, I urge you to do this surprisingly easy home made puff pastry as a substitute.
- Dough: Put together home made tough puff pastry dough via 2nd refrigeration. If utilizing store-bought frozen puff pastry, be sure that it’s thawed. Maintain both dough within the fridge till step 4 beneath.
- Make the Cranberry Sauce: After rinsing the cranberries, set 1/4 cup (25g) cranberries apart. You’ll stir these in on the finish for additional texture. Mix the remaining cranberries, water, orange juice, and sugar collectively in a medium saucepan over medium warmth. Stir often because the combination involves a simmer. As soon as simmering, cut back warmth to medium-low. Whereas stirring often, proceed to cook dinner till liquid has lowered and cranberries have burst and thickened, about 10 minutes.
- Take away from warmth and stir in 1/4 cup reserved cranberries, orange zest, and vanilla extract. Enable to chill barely when you proceed.
- Preheat oven to 400°F (204°C). Grease a 12-cup muffin pan (I take advantage of nonstick spray).
- On a frivolously floured work floor utilizing a frivolously floured rolling pin, roll pastry dough right into a 12×16-inch rectangle; it doesn’t should be excellent. (Tip if utilizing 2 sheets of store-bought: place the sting of 1 sheet over the opposite and use a rolling pin to stick them collectively. Roll the entire thing out right into a 12×16-inch rectangle.) With a pointy knife or a pizza cutter, lower dough into 12 4-inch squares. (Once more, doesn’t should be excellent.)
- Egg Wash & Assemble: Brush egg wash throughout puff pastry squares, together with the sides. Switch the squares to the ready muffin pan, urgent them right down to fill every cup as a “crust.” Slice the brie into 12 items, about 1/2 ounce (14g) every. Place the slices of brie within the facilities of the dough crusts. Prime every with a spoonful (about 2 heaping teaspoons) of barely heat or chilly cranberry sauce. Gently fold the corners of the dough in towards the middle of every tart. Sprinkle coarse sugar over the tops of tarts.
- Bake for 20 minutes, or till tarts are golden brown. If including pecans, on the 10-minute mark, gently place them within the heart of every tart and proceed baking for the remaining 10 minutes.
- Take away from the oven and garnish every with flaky sea salt and contemporary thyme leaves. Cool for a minute or 2, after which use a spoon to assist take away the tarts from the pan. Serve heat.
- Cowl and retailer leftover tarts within the fridge for as much as 3 days. To reheat, cowl with aluminum foil and bake in a 300°F (149°C) oven for a couple of minutes earlier than serving. Or reheat within the microwave.
Notes
- Make Forward Directions: If utilizing home made dough, see the detailed dough recipe directions for make-ahead and freezing particulars. You’ll be able to basically prep the dough 48 hours upfront or freeze as much as 1 month. You’ll be able to put together the cranberry sauce as much as 3 days forward of time. Cool fully, cowl tightly, after which refrigerate till prepared to make use of. You’ll be able to freeze the baked and cooled tarts for as much as 3 months. Thaw within the fridge and reheat (lined with aluminum foil) in a 300°F (149°C) oven for quarter-hour earlier than serving.
- Particular Instruments (affiliate hyperlinks): Rolling Pin | USA Pan Muffin Pan or Wilton Muffin Pan | Zester | Citrus Juicer
- Cranberries: You need to use contemporary or frozen cranberries. No want to completely thaw. Rinse the frozen cranberries with water in a colander earlier than utilizing. No must pat dry.
- Orange Juice & Zest: You want contemporary orange juice and orange zest. I like to recommend zesting the orange first, setting the zest apart, then reducing the orange for the juice. (More durable to zest a lower orange!)
- Brie: You need to use any brie cheese, double or triple cream. No must take away the rind.
- Full Dimension Tart: You’ll be able to flip this right into a full dimension tart baked on a baking sheet, and the baking directions shall be totally different. I like to recommend following the meeting and baking directions from this butternut squash tart. Unfold cranberry sauce over egg-washed dough and dot items of brie on prime earlier than baking. Be happy to sprinkle with coarse sugar, then add pecans midway via bake time, and end with flaky sea salt and contemporary thyme earlier than serving.
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