Easy Baked Brie Cheese Appetizer Recipe With Honey (2024)

FAQs

Do you take the rind off brie before baking? ›

Do you take the rind off before baking? Keep the rind on, as it will help the cheese hold its shape so it doesn't all melt out. The rind is also edible, so you can enjoy it with the melted cheese, or simply remove the top layer after baking and dunk in crusty bread like a fondue.

Multigrain crackers work very well with the mild, buttery flavor of brie. This type of pairing highlights the subtle nuttiness in the cheese without overwhelming it. Brie also pairs well with sliced fruit, or a drizzle of honey.

Leave cheese for at least 1 hour

Ripe and runny bries for example would appreciate a longer warm-up: even as long as two hours, whilst harder cheddars benefit from an hour out of the fridge. The exception to this rule is fresh cheeses where 30 minutes should be sufficient.

While brie is normally served with crusty bread or crackers, it can be paired with a variety of fruits, nuts, or honey.

Brie cheese is the perfect partner to jam! It pairs beautifully with jam varieties, such as: fig, apricot, blackberry, boysenberry or cherry jam.

That's the beauty of this recipe—you can use any types of jam you want! Brie is a creamy, mild-flavored cheese that complements a variety of flavors. Try making your baked brie using strawberry, blueberry, mixed berry, raspberry, or fig jam. If you want to emphasize the season's flavors, try cranberry jam as well!

Six top drink pairings for Brie

* A creamy, subtly oaked chardonnay - even a posh white burgundy! * A cherry or raspberry-flavoured fruit beer (Kriek or Frambozen), particularly when the brie is accompanied by fresh cherries. * Guignolet (a cherry-flavoured French aperitif) by the same logic.

Putting Honey And Cheese Together

Honey with a nuttier flavor, like chestnut or buckwheat honey, pairs wonderfully with aged cheeses. Président Don Bernardo® Manchego would be a good fit. And with firmer cheese, honey can be drizzled right on top – no cracker necessary.

The U.S. Department of Health doesn't recommend keeping any perishable food sitting out of the fridge for more than two hours — and that's certainly the case for soft cheeses, like cottage or cream cheese, brie, or fresh mozzarella.

Can you eat brie 3 weeks out of date? ›

"Unopened cheeses such as brie, camembert and feta are fine for as long as their shelf life dictates and this may be in the region of 4-8 weeks. Some cheese manufacturers assert they will even keep 2-3 weeks past their best before date if they are handled and stored correctly under refrigeration.

Serve Brie either at room temperature or warmed (never chilled), to bring out its creamy texture.

Not only can you eat the rind, you should eat the rind. Technically, the rind is mold, usually Penicillium candidum, but it's good mold! The rind protects the cheese on the inside and helps to give the cheese its flavor. You're missing out on a big part of the flavor and textural experience if you do not eat the rind.

Lots of people eat brie with the rind intact, but many find its taste and texture unappetizing. The trouble is, the soft, gooey cheese sticks to the rind like glue, making it difficult to remove the rind without taking half the cheese with it.

In this baked brie recipe, I do not remove the rind because I need the surface to spread my jam and to add my beautiful nuts and toppings. The rind keeps the wheel of cheese together, and once you take it out of the oven and slice into it, all the gooey deliciousness oozes out like a nice surprise!

All cheeses should be served with the rind on unless it is wax, cloth, or bark … the flavor profile changes as you get closer to the rind, and as a host, you don't want to deprive anyone of that!"