This honey baked brie is salty, sweet, creamy and crunchy for the ultimate decadent fall and holiday appetizer that quickly and easily comes together!
Just look at that warm and ooey gooey brie with the perfect sweet and savory combo of flavors!
Why this Recipe Works
- Balance of flavor and texture!There’s salty, sweet, creamy and crunchy all in this single dish!
- Quick & Easy!This baked Brie comes together in 15 min!
- Recipe is versatile! Quantity can easily be halved or doubled. Figs, types of nuts, and the honey can easily be swapped out!
- The dish falls in that magic intersection of looks highly impressive but actually super low maintenance to make!
Bringing a crowd together over baked brie straight from the oven! This elevated appetizer doubles as a beautiful centerpiece to gather everyone around.
How to Make this Recipe
Unwrap your Brie and place it in an oven safe dish. Top with fresh figs, walnuts, pistachios, drizzle with honey and bake. Top with pomegranate arils (optional) and watch the entire thang disappear as folks excitedly dig in!
I added the pomegranate arils to dress up the brie with some festive flair!
Other Brie Topping Ideas
- Other fresh fruit
- Dried fruit
- Jams, preserves, compotes and chutneys
- Different nuts
- Different sweeteners, such as maple syrup or date syrup
Serve baked Brie with crackers, bread and/or freshly cut apples and/or pears.
Wanna entertain last minute this Holiday season! No prob! The idea is to have this baked brie recipe in your Holiday appetizer repertoire. Baking brie delivers a unique intensity of flavor. And all the other ingredients are somewhat flexi.
Cooks Tips
- An entire wheel or a simply a wedge of brie both work for this recipe.
- Keep an eye on your brie as it's baking. You want it to be soft, but don't want an oozing mess!
- The dish you bake the brie in will also be its serving dish so choose wisely!
- The baked brie is best served warm, fresh from the oven, but still tasty served at room temp.
- Other types of nuts, fruit and sweeteners can easily be substituted in.
- Leftovers will keep in the fridge for up to 3 days, re-heat before serving.
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Honey Baked Brie
Ingredients
- 16 ounces Brie cheese
- 1/2 pound fresh figs cut in half
- 1/4 cup chopped pistacchios
- 1/4 cup chopped walnuts
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1/4 cup fresh pomegranite arils
- pinch flaky sea salt (optional)
- punch fresh black pepper (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350° F degrees.
- Place the brie into an oven save baking dish, that you can also serve the finsihed baked brie in.
- Cut figs in half and arrange on top of brie.
- Chop walnuts and pitachios and sprinkle on top of figs.
- Drizzle all with honey.
- Cover the cheese loosely with foil and bake for 20 minutes, until Brie feels soft and warm and is just starting to ooze out.
- Sprinkle with pomegranate arils and salt and pepper (optional).
Notes
- An entire wheel or a simply a wedge of brie both work for this recipe.
- Keep an eye on your brie as it's baking. You want it to be soft, but don't want an oozing mess!
- The dish you bake the brie in will also be its serving dish so choose wisely!
- The baked brie is best served warm, fresh from the oven, but still tasty served at room temp.
- Other types of nuts, fruit and sweeteners can easily be substituted in.
- Leftovers will keep in the fridge for up to 3 days, re-heat before serving.
Beyond yummieee recipe!
Love the combination of sweet and salty,
Thanks chefdanielagerson for sharing this🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏😘
Absolute pleasure!!! I'll be serving this at my next pop up so you can try it there :)! And it's super easy to make too!
First time baking Brie. First time cooking with figs. Turned out amazing. Next time I’ll use more honey, but tbh I’m super impressed. Did skip the walnuts though- got pecans instead and people I cooked for don’t like pecans so skipped those too.
It's a baked brie that's def improv friendly. So stoked to hear it turned out amazing and that you're super impressed :)! So easy and so delicious! And no need for nuts if no one likes them :).
This Honey baked Brie is mouth watering! Just looking at this makes me want to go buy ingredients an start making this now!
So super stoked to hear that Maggie! It's an amazing entertaining appetizer... so easy to make and so delicious and impressive too :)!
How dreamy does these brie sound? So many flavors and combinations of textures. This is on my holiday list for sure.
So super stoked to hear that Debbie! I just made it again for a party I threw last night and it was a HUGE hit :)! Hope it is for your party too :).
What a gorgeous combination of flavors and textures! I adore baked brie recipes, and this one so perfectly showcases the natural beauty of those fresh figs. Such a showstopper - really nice as a fall appetizer, but this truly would be just right for the holidays (with big WOW factor)!
Yesssss exactly the WOW factor! Really appreciate your sweet and kind words Shelley! Thank ya so very much :).
This is beautiful! What a show-stopping dish to serve at a party!
Thank ya so much Lizzy!!! It def has party pleasing dish written all over it! It's a showstopper, quick, easy and delicious! Hope ya enjoy it :)!
Whatever this is, it looks beautiful. Gorgeous recipe!
It's a baked brie! The toppings can be swapped out :). Thanks so much Nicole!
Not only is this recipe delicious but that photography is droolworthy!
You are too kind Megan!!! Really appreciate the sweet feedback :).
This will be beautiful on a Christmas table or for a festive party! Gorgeous, and brie and fruit is the best!
Thank ya Jacquie! And yesssss! It's def a perfect party pleasing app for the Holidays! Enjoy :).
you have no idea how incredibly jealous I am right now. Where I live we can't get fresh figs and dear lord I want this dish of gorgeousness in my belly! Looks like I'm heading downtown to order a case just so I can make this for my next party! This looks incredible!
You are so super sweet Lori!!!! I think you can try making this with dried figs are perhaps another fruit that you can get fresh, perhaps grapes this time of year? Really appreciate the super sweet feedback. Thank ya!!!
That is a gorgeous appetizer for any party! I must find out where I can get some fresh figs. LOVING everything about this dish.
You are too kind Michele! I just made this again last night. It's def a huge party pleaser! Hope ya find fresh figs soon :).