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Apple Cranberry Brie Bites

red cranberry apple brie bites on a white plate
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Apple Cranberry Brie Bites are a crowd-pleasing one-bite appetizer.  Easy to make and serve!

Ingredients

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For the Apple Cranberry Sauce

  • 12 oz fresh or frozen cranberries, rinsed
  • zest and juice of 1 large orange
  • 1 Honeycrisp apple, peeled, cored, and chopped
  • ½ cup apple cider
  • 1/3 pure maple syrup (increase to ½ cup if you prefer a sweeter sauce)

For the Brie Bites

  • Apple Cranberry Sauce – will need about 1/3 cup of sauce depending on how full you fill them
  • Brie cheese, cut into 15 cubes (see notes)
  • 15 Mini Phyllo Shells (see notes)

Optional garnish: roasted, chopped pecans

Instructions

To make the Apple Cranberry Sauce: 

  1. Add all of the Apple Cranberry Sauce ingredients to the pressure cooker pot and stir well.
  2. Secure the lid and turn pressure release knob to a sealed position. Cook at high pressure for 5 minutes.
  3. When cooking is complete, use a natural release for 5 minutes and then release any remaining pressure. If liquid sprays while releasing the pressure, quickly turn the valve to the sealed position and wait 5 more minutes.
  4. Stir well.  The sauce will thicken further as it cools.
  5. At this point you can proceed with making the Brie Bites or refrigerate the sauce until you’re ready to make them. 

To make the Brie Bites: 

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F.  Remove phyllo shells from their packaging and place them on a sheet pan. 
  2. Place a cube of Brie in each shell followed by about a teaspoon of Apple Cranberry Sauce.
  3. Bake for 10 minutes until the filling is hot, the phyllo shells are golden brown on the edges, and the brie is soft and melty.
  4. Can be served hot or at room temperature, but hot is best because the brie is so creamy.

Notes

  • You will have more sauce than needed to make 15 brie bites so feel free to double or triple the number of brie bites you’re preparing.  
  • Leftover sauce is great on turkey, yogurt, pancakes, etc.  It also freezes well.  
  • The addition of an apple, apple cider, and orange juice helps tame the bitterness of the cranberries without needing to add a lot of sweetener.  Use between 1/3 – 1/2 cup of maple syrup, depending on your ideal sweet/tart level.
  • For the Brie cheese, I like to buy the 8 oz round in the specialty cheese section and use about ⅓ of it per box of shells.
  • For the phyllo shells, I use Athens Mini Phyllo Shells from the freezer section.  Each box contains 15 shells so grab extra boxes if you are feeding a crowd.

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