Baked Brie
This is such a fun and tasty recipe, especially over a campfire. With so many of our recipes, you can add almost anything you enjoy eating into the pan and it would be great. Brie has a high water content of about 50%, which makes it the perfect cheese for heating in a hot pan and spreading on crackers, fruit or veggies.
Hey, everybody. Jimmy Kennedy with go outside here on the breeo again using lodge cast iron at home. But this recipe I want to show you today is a great one to take on the road camping, or especially camping around the campfire. It’s great with the family or just your wife or friends or anything. It’s it’s a really cool little recipe that I really enjoy making.
And it’s so easy. It’s just a wheel of brie you can buy this in a grocery store, basically. You just put it right in the cast iron pan and I don’t grease this up or anything. I just let it go. It’s already nice and hot and the idea is to let this soften a little bit and we’re going to cut it open and add some maple syrup.
You can add sugar or brown sugar or anything you want, but we’re here in Vermont, got a lot of maple syrup and I love it so good. So we’re going to let that go for just a few minutes. It doesn’t take long. About 3 minutes on this side, and then we’ll turn it over on the other side. That’s when we’ll add all the goodies to it.
I’ll show you how it’s done. All right. Okay, guys, we got this thing. Nice and hot on one side, and it’s starting to. Oh, that’s looking so good. Soft right up. It’s going to be nice. That’s what you want it to do is what I like for it to do is ease some of that cheesy goodness out of there. It helps us cook everything else and you can add anything at all, just like I said.
But I’ve got some nuts here. Peanuts and almonds, walnuts are good.. anything, mixed nuts – whatever you got. This just further fancies it up in my mind. How about some dried cranberries and some raisins? This serves a lot of people, too. I mean, that is quite a bit of cheese, too, obviously, but we just let that go for a little bit.
In the meantime, we’re not going to flip it again. So it’s it’s good to go just going to cut it and it is nice and warm in there. I’m doing this so the maple syrup gets right down in there. It’s opening up a little. This is just local maple syrup. It’s going to put a little bit right in there.
It’s going to get everywhere. But that’s okay too. Inside, outside. This things good to go already, but I like to kind of get the bottom to look like the top we’re just let it char a little bit, flip the peanuts and stuff so good. All right. All righty. So this has been at least a few minutes.
Peanuts and raisins. Cranberries are looking especially good. Yeah, it’s good on the bottom. Sounds good. So you can eat this with a spoon if you want to or just about anything. Crackers, highly recommended. Just peel the skin of the brie back a little bit and. And maple syrup is in there. It is so good. Hot. You can use the crackers, you can use celery, carrots, bread, anything you want.
You can fancy this up even more. Have fun with it. It’s so tasty and it’s so easy to make. Just takes a few minutes and it’s kind of a special campfire treat. Enjoy see you next time.
Ingredients:
- wheel of brie (18 oz.)
- walnuts, pecans, almonds or mixed nuts
- dried fruit
- celery sticks
- carrots
- crackers
- maple syrup or honey
Directions:
- Heat a cast iron pan over a campfire or stove until it gets hot. Place the wheel of brie in the pan and let cook for about 4 to 5 minutes depending on the heat. I like to slightly char the bottom but be careful not to burn. Check the bottom occasionally using a spatula and flip to the other side when ready.
- Add the nuts, dried fruit and other ingredients you may use. Let the brie cook for another four minutes or so while occasionally stirring or moving the nuts, fruit, etc. around so they do not burn.
- After a few minutes, cut a slit in the top of the brie and drizzle in the maple syrup or honey. It may run over into the pan and mix it in with the nuts and fruit – this is a good thing!
- When the color is right on the bottom, remove the pan from the heat and serve from the pan. Use carrots, celery and crackers to dip into the melted brie or eat with a spoon. Enjoy and Go {Cook}!
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Yield: 8 to 12
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