Brie & Bacon Bites! – Jane’s Patisserie

Scrumptious straightforward bitesize brie and bacon bites with cranberry and filo pastry instances – scrumptious snack for the festive season!

Relating to the festive season I’ve all the time cherished the candy stuff… clearly! I can’t depend what number of festive recipes are on my weblog proper now – however relating to the savoury aspect of issues?! Oh my. 

These brie & bacon bites are little bundles of absolute heaven and I’m right here for it. 

Festive meals

I have a tendency to search out that every one the snacks on provide are simply getting higher and higher with annually. The supermarkets smash it relating to the canapé and sides of the festive season, and to be trustworthy I purchase SO lots of them. 

Nevertheless, there are particular conventional festive treats for me, and that features these unhealthy boys. Brie, bacon, cranberry, filo pastry and extra make the perfect bitesize treats available on the market. Additionally, they’re SO straightforward to make at house. 

These make the proper little pre-dinner snack, or one thing for the top of the day after the massive roast dinner – they’re simply so delicious. 

Cheese

So, clearly, the cheese in use right here is brie. Brie with bacon and cranberry is a panini basic at principally all cafes – and the mix is difficult to struggle towards. 

Relating to the brie cheese itself, you should utilize no matter you like. An affordable brie, an costly brie – or perhaps a totally different cheese altogether. I discover brie is a better cheese to cut up (albeit a bit smooth) but it surely melts splendidly, and it’s pretty cheap. 

You should utilize mozzarella, camembert, goats cheese, or no matter your style prefers. I simply lower the bits of brie into small cubes in order that they will match into the bitesize treats. 

Bacon

Now, relating to the bacon, it’s laborious to get it unsuitable. Bacon is bacon on the finish of the day. I do have a tendency to make use of lardons which can be small (as some are huge?!) however you may 100% simply get some again bacon and chop it up, and even streaky bacon. 

I don’t cook dinner the bacon earlier than utilizing because the items and bites are so small the bacon cooks properly within the oven, however if you need them tremendous crispy you may cook dinner them earlier than. 

If you’re vegetarian, or simply don’t fancy the bacon, you may improve the quantity of cheese, or use another. A pleasant added texture for those who take away the bacon is so as to add some chopped nuts corresponding to walnuts to the bites as an alternative. 

Flavours

For the added flavours to the brie and bacon, I exploit cranberry sauce. It’s basic, it really works wonders with each brie and bacon, and it’s a really festive delight. I additionally add slightly wholegrain mustard to the bottom of my bites as a result of I believe it brings all of it up a degree, however thats non-obligatory. 

Salt and pepper are good for seasoning if you need it, however it’s possible you’ll not because the cheese and bacon could be fairly salty already – or you may even add in some additional flavours for those who most popular. 

Baking

Sure, sure I did use store purchased filo pastry. I’m not within the temper to make my very own filo pastry when I’m prepping all kinds of different treats in my kitchen – and it’s really easy to purchase. 

When you haven’t labored with filo earlier than, it’s a brilliant skinny and delicate pastry, but it surely’s splendidly mild and scrumptious. I exploit scissors to chop up my strips of pastry, after which lower all of them into squares. I’d say the squares of pastry are about 2″, and also you want 2-3 items per chunk. 

I used 3 items as I like the pastry, however two works properly. You utilize slightly melted butter to stay them collectively after which press into your mini tart tin. I then cut up the filling between all of them – there’s no actual rule about this apart from making an attempt to get the filling even between them! 

Bake them within the preheated oven, after which cool barely earlier than consuming and luxuriate in. 

Suggestions & Methods

These are slightly fiddly, however they’re 100% value it! I made 24 bites out of my mini tart tin so in case your tin is barely totally different, it’s possible you’ll get a distinct variety of bites. 

These are greatest served recent, however could be reheated within the oven if wanted by preheating an oven to 180ºc and baking for 5-10 minutes. 

These could be prepped prematurely and stored within the fridge till they’re baked in a while within the day or they will freeze as soon as baked for 3+ months. 

• 2-3 sheets filo pastry
• 50 g unsalted butter (melted)
• 1 tsp wholegrain mustard
• 70 g cranberry sauce
• 175 g brie (1cm cubes)
• 100 g bacon (1cm cubes)

• Preheat the oven to 190ºc/170ºfan and seize a mini tart tin

• Reduce the filo pastry into strips, after which into small squares – about 2″ in measurement.

• Layer 2-3 items of filo by brushing slightly melted butter between every layer and sticking collectively

• I shift every layer of pastry so it creates a star when caught collectively

• Press each right into a mini tart tin complete and press down

• Repeat till all of the pastry is used and you’ve got 24 mini tarts.

• Add a smidge of wholegrain mustard to the underside of every mini chunk, after which add slightly cranberry sauce to every one as properly

• Cut up the cubes of bacon and brie between the 24 bites

• Bake within the oven for 10-12 minutes, or till golden.

• Take pleasure in!

• I exploit this mini tart tin to make these brie & bacon bites 
• These are greatest served recent, however could be reheated within the oven if wanted by preheating an oven to 180ºc and baking for 5-10 minutes. 
• These could be prepped prematurely and stored within the fridge till they’re baked in a while within the day or they will freeze as soon as baked for 3+ months. 

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