Baked Brie Recipe with Brown Sugar Hazelnuts

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Baked Brie recipe with Brown Sugar Hazelnuts adds a sweet and crunchy element to the creamy melted cheese. It is pure heaven!

I’ve got a thing for easy holiday appetizers and melty cheese aka Baked Brie. Um, who doesn’t?

After browsing through my recipe index, I couldn’t believe I didn’t have any sort of recipe for baked brie. Do you know how easy it is to make baked brie? You literally unwrap your cheese and bake it. That’s it.

This recipe takes it a step further by pouring a melted brown sugar and hazelnut mixture overtop of the hot cheese making it ooze even more and adding some sweetness and crunch to the creamy cheese.

It’s pure heaven, incase you’re wondering.

If you happen to do this in front of your guests, they will be wowed. It’s kind of show stopping, and takes zero skill. The best kind of recipe.

For my ingredients, I ran over to my local Fred Meyer, picked all three items up and had this ready to eat in a cool 20 minutes. Not too shabby.

Here’s how to make it:

Start by taking an 8-ounce round of brie and unwrapping it. I know, so hard.

I used a Murray’s brand cheese which is available exclusively at Murray’s and Kroger stores. Totally awesome.

Throw that cheese into the oven and start toasting some hazelnuts…

like so! So, you just add them to a dry pan and roll them around until the skins start to shed and they get a little color.

Pour them out onto some paper towels and rub them until their skins come off. {Not all the skins will come off and that’s totally fine.}

So into the warm pan that you just rolled the hazelnuts out of, add in the water and brown sugar.

Stir this together to combine and then melt the sugar.

As it heats up, the sugar will melt which is what you want!

Add in the nuts and continue to heat until the sugar mixture starts to bubble lightly. Then remove immediately from the heat and pour over the warm cheese.

Like so! Be sure to serve immediately so the sugar stays melted and the cheese is hot and oozy!! It’s so so good, you guys.

Be sure to save this in your back pocket as we get closer to all those Holiday parties! It’s a good one to keep 🙂

Baked Brie with Brown Sugar Hazelnuts

Katie Cooksey

Baked Brie recipe with Brown Sugar Hazelnuts adds a sweet and crunchy element to the creamy melted cheese. It is pure heaven!

5 from 8 votes

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Prep Time 8 minutes mins

Cook Time 12 minutes mins

Total Time 20 minutes mins

Course Appetizer

Cuisine American

Servings 8 servings

Calories 158 kcal

Ingredients

 

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• 1 round of brie cheese about 8 oz.
• 1/2 cup hazelnuts
• 3 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1 1/2 tablespoons water
• sliced apples water crackers or anything else you'd like to serve along side

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Slice apples and arrange on platter with crackers. Set aside.
• Place whole wheel of brie cheese onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or foil. Bake 8 minutes.
• While cheese is baking, place hazelnuts into a small skillet and toast over medium heat. Remove from pan onto paper towels to rub skins off.
• Remove cheese from oven and place onto serving platter.
• Wipe pan out and place back over medium heat. Add in water and brown sugar and stir until sugar has dissolved. Pour in toasted hazelnuts and stir to coat and sugar mixture starts to bubble. Immediately remove from heat and pour over warm brie and serve.

Nutrition

Calories: 158kcalCarbohydrates: 5gProtein: 6gFat: 12gSaturated Fat: 5gCholesterol: 28mgSodium: 179mgPotassium: 99mgSugar: 4gVitamin A: 165IUVitamin C: 0.5mgCalcium: 64mgIron: 0.5mg

Keyword Baked Brie

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