Delight your guests with Blueberry Brie “Cake Slice” Appetizer, a beautiful prelude to dinner or cocktail party conversation starter. 

This “impostor” recipe looks just like a slice of sweet cheesecake piled high with plump berries and pomegranate arils but it’s actually savory-sweet cheese dish to get the flavor party started!  Read on to get all the yummy details and easy recipe: A drizzle of pomegranate vinaigrette over the berries drips down onto the bed of spinach surrounding the brie adds a fresh and festive zing of flavor to this easy, elegant appetizer. This blueberry brie appetizer also makes quite a showy statement adorning a charcuterie board or cheese tray.

To keep the copycat shape of a sweet cheesecake dessert, this brie appetizer is best served at room temperature. Too cold, and the brie becomes hard and uncooperative to spread on croutons or crackers, yet when baked to bubbly in the oven, the soft cheese becomes too ooey-gooey and the fruit slides off.

While it doesn’t flaunt the layers of creamy cheese and berries quite as well, a small round of brie can be swapped for the large wedge – the effect will be that of a whole cake rather than a slice! I keep the rind of my brie intact because think it looks a bit like frosting and it’s edible (to the surprise of many). However, if you don’t like the idea of the rind, it can be shaved off with a sharp paring knife or vegetable peeler.

This Blueberry Cheese “Cake Slice” Appetizer is going to be my “show off” appetizer at my New Year’s Eve dinner party.along with Citrus Cranberry Tea Punch . Of course, I’m keeping how “berry” easy it was to make both complete a secret!

What are your New Year’s Eve plans? How do you do brie? What is your favorite cheese, please? XOXO, Jennifer 

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Blueberry Brie “Cake Slice” Appetizer

Prep Time

5 mins

Total Time

5 mins

 

Razzle dazzle your guests with this amazing "impostor" recipe -- it's a sweet-savory cheese appetizer that looks like a big slice of sweet cheesecake dessert! How fun . . . and easy!

Course: Appetizer

Cuisine: American

Keyword: 30 minute meal, blue cheese, blueberries, blueberry, brie, holiday, raspberries

Servings: 8 servings

Ingredients

• 1 8-ounce wedge or round of brie
• 1/4 cup blueberry jam
• 1 pint fresh blueberries preferably "jumbo"
• 1/4 cup pomegranate arils

For dressing

• 2 tbsp. pomegranate juice you can reserve if from pre-seeded pomegranate cups, use from a bottle, save all the drips when cutting open a whole fruit.
• 1 tbsp red wine or red wine vinegar
• 1 tbsp olive oil

garnish

• 2 ounces chopped fresh parsley
• 2 tablespoons slivered almonds

Instructions

Make dressing first:

1. Shake together pomegranate juice, red wine and oil in small jar. Use as directed in recipe.

To assemble:

1. Slice brie in half through the center to create a top and bottom. This is easiest done when cheese is at a cold temperature.
2. If desired, scrape or cut off the rind. However, this is not necessary as the rind is edible and helps the cheese keep its shape.
3. Spread blueberry jam, split evenly, on the cut side of one layer (to be bottom) and the rind side of the other layer (to be top). Place bottom layer, rind side down, on a plate covered with spinach leaves.
4. Cover jam on bottom layer with blueberries and pomegranate arils, drizzle lightly with dressing. Gently place top layer, jam side up, atop blueberries on bottom layer. Repeat process with top layer, adding a generous drizzle of dressing that extends onto the greens.
5. Sprinkle spinach leaves with almond slivers and remaining fruit. Serve at room temperature with bread and/or crackers.