Easy Baked Brie in Puff Pastry Baked Brie in puff pastry is a crowd-pleasing appetizer made with Brie cheese topped with jam, wrapped in puff pastry, and baked until melty. Elise founded Simply Baked brie crescent rolls in 2003 and led the site until 2019.
She has an MA in Food Research from Stanford University. Baked Brie in puff pastry is a crowd-pleasing appetizer made with Brie cheese topped with jam, wrapped in puff pastry, and baked until melty. Brie wrapped in puff pastry and baked until it has thoroughly melted inside is one of the world’s easiest yet tastiest appetizers. In this recipe the Brie is topped with raspberry jam, surrounded with puff pastry, and drizzled with maple syrup.
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. 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, look for dough sheets that don’t have perforations in them. If you can’t find the sheets, you’ll need to press together the perforations. 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.