Name: Cranberry Brie Bites
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 2 tubes (8 ounces each) refrigerated crescent rolls; 6 ounces Brie cheese, rind removed; 1 cup whole-berry cranberry sauce; 1/2 cup chopped pecans

Cranberry Brie bites are a low-effort, high-reward recipe. They really save the day when you’re juggling a ton of other holiday dishes and need to put out something easy for guests to snack on.

Instructions

1 Cut the crescent dough

2 Preheat the oven to 375°F. Unroll one tube of crescent dough into one long rectangle. Press the perforations to seal them together. With a sharp chef’s knife, cut the crescent dough into 24 pieces.

3 Put into muffin cups

4 Lightly press each piece of crescent dough onto the bottom and up the sides of an ungreased mini-muffin cup. Repeat with the remaining crescent dough. Editor’s Tip: You’ll need two 24-cup mini muffin pans to bake all 48 cranberry Brie bites at once. If you have only one pan, bake this recipe in two batches.

5 Fill the cups

6 Place about 1 rounded teaspoon of Brie cheese in each cup. Spoon the cranberry sauce on top of each and sprinkle the pecans evenly on top.

7 Bake the bites

8 Bake the cranberry Brie bites until golden brown, 10 to 15 minutes. We like to serve them while they’re still warm and fresh from the oven, but you could serve them at room temp too.