A Simple Holiday Starter

Sometimes you may need a quick and delicious starter when guests are coming or baking with friends and family. This is an easy recipe everyone will sure to love. You will be finished in minutes.

Ingredients:
1 large sheet of puff pastry dough
1 - 8 ounce package of pasteurized brie cheese
1/4 cup raspberry preserves or your favorite preserves
1/8 cup toasted almond slices

Steps:
Lay out the puff pastry on a lightly greased cookie sheet.
Place brie round or wedge on top of the pastry puff sheet, leaving the rind on the brie.
Place the preserves on top of the cheese and add the almond slices on top of the raspberry preserves.
Bundle the pastry puff up and around the cheese, preserves, and sliced almonds.
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Bake the brie pastry in the preheated oven for 20 minutes. After 20 minutes insert a cooking thermometer in the center of the brie pastry. Continue baking until the internal temperature reaches 140 degrees F and the puff pastry is golden brown.

Serve warm with crackers and apple slices. If you are not serving it right away, set the oven to a temperature that will keep the brie pastry’s internal temperature above 140 degrees. Keep the brie pastry in the oven until it is time to eat. It is important that you read the label of your brie cheese, making sure it is pasteurized.