Ian showed me how to make baked brie, and it is super easy and delicious. We got a cracker assortment to go with the cheese and followed it with pasta and roasted red pepper alfredo sauce (from a jar, because I'm kinda lazy). Anyhow, making baked brie is tres facile and only takes about half an hour (maybe an hour and a half taking pastry thaw-time into account).
-Get a wedge or wheel of brie, some frozen puff pastry dough, and find some jam, jelly or preserves that are sweet but tart (we used my grandma's homemade currant jelly, but we also considered cloudberry jam)
-Preheat oven to temperature listed on pastry package
-Thaw a sheet of puff pastry until it's flexible enough to bend without breaking
-Spread a decent layer of fruit stuff on top of the brie, and wrap in the pastry dough.
-Bake according to the pastry dough instructions (the kind we used called for 400 degrees for 15 minutes, but I ended up baking it for about 8 minutes longer so the dough got nice and browned)
-Let cool for a few minutes so you aren't scalded with hot cheese; cut with a sharp knife and eat on crackers
Our baked brie looked like this:
My pictures are crap, but you get the idea. It is definitely delicious, but also very, very rich--so be ready to feel naughty.
