Baked Brie With Pecans And Brown Sugar Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°. In a saucepan, heat butter over medium heat. Add apple, cranberries, pecans, brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg; cook and stir 5-7 minutes or until apple is tender., Cut Brie horizontally in half; place bottom half in a 9-in. pie plate. Top with half of the apple mixture; replace top. Top with remaining apple mixture., Bake, uncovered, 10-12 minutes or until cheese begins to melt. Serve warm with crackers.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place cheese on a rimmed baking sheet; bake until softened, 15 to 20 minutes. Transfer to a serving plate; cool about 20 minutes.
• While cheese cools, place nuts on a clean baking sheet; bake until toasted and fragrant, 7 to 10 minutes. Sprinkle nuts over cheese.
• In a small saucepan, combine sugar and maple syrup. Bring to a boil over medium heat; simmer until foamy, 1 to 2 minutes. Drizzle warm sauce over slightly cooled cheese and nuts; serve with crackers or baguette.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
• Using a warmed sharp knife, or unflavored dental floss (See Cook's Note 1) cut the wheel of brie in half horizontally and separate the top half of the wheel from the bottom half. Sprinkle the bottom half of the brie with the dried cherries, toasted almonds, and brown sugar. Replace the top half of the brie and apply pressure to secure the stuffing. Working on a well-floured surface, roll out the puff pastry so that it will fully cover the brie. Place the brie in the middle of the puff pastry and fold the excess pastry around the wheel. Put the wheel aside. Roll out another piece of puff pastry and cut out a circle the same circumference as the top of the brie. Save the trimmings for decorations. Using a pastry brush, brush the egg on top of the brie in the puff pastry and place the circle on top. Brush the top of the circle with egg. Cut out decorations using cookie cutters or a small knife on top of the brie. Brush the entire top side of the brie with the egg and place the brie on a sheet pan lined with parchment paper. Bake for 20 to 30 minutes or until the pastry begins to turn golden brown, then turn the temperature down to 325 degrees F and bake for another 20 minutes. Serve on a pretty platter. See Cook's Note 2.
• Cook's Note 1: Instead of using a knife to cut the brie, use a piece of unflavored dental floss. Make an initial cut half way down, along the outer side of the brie with a pairing knife. Then, take a long piece of dental floss and wrap it around both hands. Starting at the front of the wheel at the initial cut, work through the wheel with the floss, separating the top half of the wheel from the bottom.
• Cook's Note 2: The brie can be made, wrapped securely and stored in the freezer up to a month ahead of time.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325.
• Put brie in baking dish.
• Brush on approximately 3 T. of softened butter.
• Sprinkle about 1/4 cup of brown sugar over the brie.
• Add a few (about 1/4 cup) of walnuts or chopped pecans, really just whatever you have on hand.
• Bake for 20-25 minutes.
• Serve with sliced french bread.

Steps:

• 1. BAKED BRIE: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• 2. Spread out a baking pan with parchment paper for baking (9x13). Spread out puffed pastry on a flat surface.
• 3. In separate small bowl, mix pecans, sugar, and cinnamon.
• 4. Spread nut mixture in the center of pastry. Place brie on top of nut mixture. Fold pastry over brie to enclose everything like a package (to the center top). Pinch together and secure gently with kitchen twine. Gently flip pastry package over, place on baking sheet with twine tied twist on the bottom.
• 5. Bake in the preheated oven 20-30 minutes or until pastry is golden brown. Remove from oven and cool 5-10 minutes. THEN.... You can slide the parchment paper holding the baked brie slowly onto a nearby serving tray. Put it in the middle of a large serving tray giving room to surround it with apple slices, pear slices, red seedless grapes,crackers, and pecans. When cooled you can trim the parchment paper closer to the brie.
• 6. TOASTED PECANS: THIS CAN BE DONE A DAY IN ADVANCE. Preheat oven to 250 degrees F. Melt butter and pour into a baking pan. A pan large enough so pecans lay in single file. Roast about 20 minutes, gently stirring every 5 minutes and checking for doneness after 10 minutes.
• 7. Remove toasted pecans from oven. Mix 1/4 tsp of salt and 1/8 tsp cinnamon together in small dish. Rub around to mix, then sprinkle mixture over pecans. COOL.
• 8. Cut 3 apples with a variety of colors into slices, set aside. Cut 2 pears into slices, set aside, wash and dry 2 cups of red seedless grapes, set aside. Arange these items around brie with crackers and toasted pecans.
• 9. ARRANGE FRUIT SLICES AND GRAPES AROUND BRIE ABOUT 10 MINUTES BEFORE SERVING. YOU CAN CUT THE SLICES SEVERAL MINUTES EARLIER BUT KEEP CHILLED TO PREVENT FROM TURNING BROWN. YOU CAN HAVE EXTRA FRUIT, NUTS, AND CRACKERS PREPARED TO REPLENISH AROUND BRIE.
• 10. ++++ Incorporate some clean, shinny Magnolia leaves and some Candied Orange Slices as decorations to this dish.