Baked Camembert in Puff Pastry
The perfect cheese appetizer for every occasion! Here's the recipe for baked camembert in puff pastry , while in our article you can also find details about the brie cheese puff pastry making too.
Ingredients
- 2 sheets Round Puff Pastry
- 250 g Camembert
- 2 tbsp Pesto
- 10 g Sesame Seeds
- 1 Egg Yolk
Instructions
- If you decide to make puff pastry at home, you'll just have to make it rounded in order to obtain the form we need. If you're getting puff pastry at the grocery store, you will find round ones so you don't have to form it. You will need a round oven dish, like a pizza dish, or a large pie dish.
- The next step is to roll out one sheet, and place the camembert in the middle. Before you start preparing the cream cheese puff pastry recipe, turn on the oven and heat it up to 220 C degrees.
- When you're making baked camembert in puff pastry, it's important to not soak the bottom, especially around the cheese, or it will be flowing out all over the place. Leave at least 3 cm around the cheese completely dry.
- Spread two spoons of Pesto on the pastry sheet, leaving those 3 cms empty around the cheese. Then, roll out the 2nd sheet, and carefully place it on top of the other sheet and the cheese.
- Try to palce the upper sheet perfectly on the other, but before you do anything else, push it down as much as you can around the cheese, so you make sure the cheese won't flow out.
- Do this really carefully, so the pastry sheet doesn't break. Then cut slices all around the pastry, starting about 3 cm from the cheese, and cutting rays towards the outskirts. Like you'd be drawing sun rays.
- Between these cuts, leave 5-6 cm of space. Then, wash the outside with an egg yolk (put salt in the egg yolk so it will taste better). After this, sprinkle sesame seeds over the puff pastry.
- take the slices you created and twist them over one by one. One twist is enough. Then check the cuts around the cheese, and press the two sheets together where you see any leaks. Again, we are making sure the cheese will stay inside.
- Once you're ready with this, place it in the oven without any cover, and take down the heat to 180 C degrees. It will take about 20 to 25 minutes to get ready, but you will see this as soon as the top becomes red.
- Once it's ready, take it out, and give it 2 minutes to cool down enough so you can cut off the top of the middle, above the cheese. You should also remove the skin of the cheese so you can actually dip the puff pastry bites in it.