Baked Brie in Puff Pastry

This Baked Brie in Puff Pastry features a wheel of creamy brie topped with homemade cranberry-orange sauce and chopped pistachios, all enveloped in flaky puff pastry and baked until golden. It’s an elegant sweet-and-savory appetizer for holiday parties, game days, and cozy winter entertaining. I love serving it for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s. It’s practical, too: assemble ahead, refrigerate up to 1 day, or freeze it unbaked and bake straight from frozen.

📝 Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups fresh cranberries
• 1/3 cup granulated sugar
• 1 large orange ((zest))
• 1/2 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• pinch ground cinnamon
• pinch kosher salt
• 1 sheet frozen puff pastry (thawed)
• 8 oz wheel of brie cheese ((or 10 oz))
• 1/4 cup shelled pistachios (roughly chopped)
• 1 large egg (beaten (for egg wash))
• course sugar (for sprinkling)
• fresh herbs (for serving)
• crackers and baguette slices (for serving)

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1--- Make the cranberry-orange sauce: ---
2. 2Add cranberries, sugar, orange zest, orange juice, vanilla, cinnamon, and salt to a medium saucepan set over low heat. Bring to a gentle simmer, stirring often, and cook for 5–8 minutes, or until the cranberries burst and the mixture thickens to a jam-like consistency.
3. 3Remove from the heat and let cool completely; the sauce will continue to thicken as it cools.
4. 4--- Assemble the brie: ---
5. 5Preheat the oven to 400ºF. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
6. 6Lay the puff pastry sheet on the prepared baking sheet. You can cut it into a square for a neat final shape, or fold the corners up and over the brie as-is, in which case they will overlap slightly.
7. 7Place the brie wheel in the center of the pastry. Spoon about 1/2 cup of the cooled cranberry–orange sauce on top (reserve the extra for serving).
8. 8Scatter the pistachios over the sauce.
9. 9Fold the pastry like an envelope: If your pastry is cut into a square, work one corner at a time. Lift one corner of the pastry and fold it toward the center of the brie, pressing gently to adhere. Brush that folded edge with a little egg wash to help it seal. Fold the opposite corner toward the center and press to secure, then brush again with egg wash. Repeat with the remaining two corners, sealing each one with egg wash as you go.
10. 10Brush the entire pastry surface with the egg wash then sprinkle with coarse sugar.
11. 11--- Bake ---
12. 12Bake for 25-28 minutes, or until the pastry is golden brown.
13. 13Scatter the Puff Pastry baked Brie with some fresh herbs and serve straight away with crackers and toasted baguette slices.