Easy Baked Brie In Puff Pastry - Simply Recipes

What is Brie Cheese?

Brie cheese is a soft, buttery, French cow's milk cheese and quite possibly a gift from the gods. It was most likely created many centuries ago by monks. Brie can range from very mild to rather pungant, and its rind is edible. If you're new to buying Brie, find a good cheesemonger who can help you pick a wheel—one that's about 8 ounces for this recipe—that's to your taste. You can also use a wedge for this recipe, but it will be more difficult to wrap.

Pastry Choices for Baked Brie

Traditionally puff pastry surrounds Brie in recipes like this, but you can also use crescent roll dough. Crescent roll dough is a little sweeter than puff pastry. You'll find crescent roll dough in the refrigerated section. You'll find puff pastry in the freezer section.

If you go with the crescent roll dough, you'll need to press together the perforations.

Variations for Easy Baked Brie

We don't recommend substituting any other cheese for the Brie in this recipe, but feel free to switch up some of the other ingredients.

• Substitute fig, apricot, sour cherry, red currant, peach, or other jam for the raspberry jam.
• Substitute honey for the maple syrup, or delete the maple syrup altogether.
• Substitute layered, buttered, phyllo dough sheets for the puff pastry or crescent roll dough.
• Add slivered almonds or crushed pecans on top of the jam.

Make-Ahead Baked Brie

Baked Brie is best when it's baked as close to serving time as possible. It's not something you want to bake ahead of time and reheat because the pastry will get soggy. However, you can assemble the Brie as described in Steps 2 through 4 but leave off the maple syrup and brown sugar.

Wrap the assembled Brie in foil that's been sprayed with cooking spray so it doesn't stick to the uncooked dough and refrigerate for up to 2 days. When ready to bake, remove from the foil, add the maple syrup and brown sugar to the top, and bake as directed in Step 5.

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