Cozy Fall Comfort Meals

Baked Brie Pumpkins

These spooky, melty Baked Brie Pumpkins are the perfect add to any seasonal cheeseboard. Especially around Halloween!

Baked Brie Pumpkins

These spooky, melty Baked Brie Pumpkins are the perfect add to any seasonal cheeseboard. Especially around Halloween!

These Baked Brie Pumpkins is the ultimate cozy centerpiece for your fall cheese board. It’s baked right inside a pumpkin mini cocotte with a drizzle of pumpkin brown butter that seeps into the pastry as it bakes. The flaky crust is shaped like a little pumpkin, complete with a pastry stem, and when you cut into it, the warm, gooey brie and nutty brown butter mingle together — perfect for dipping with crackers, apples, or bread.

It’s festive, rich, and made for fall entertaining. The combination of creamy brie, buttery pastry, and that sweet-savory pumpkin brown butter feels indulgent and seasonal in the best way. Serve it as the centerpiece of your autumn cheese board or bring it to a Halloween party — it’s the kind of dish that instantly steals the show.

Make it Mini:
Make it Mini is an ongoing series with Le Creuset where we reimagine recipes using their mini cocottes. The series has been going on for 2+ years now, and we’ve really created quite an arsenal of recipes. So if you just got a new mini cocotte are looking for what to make, there are several fun, seasonal and delicious recipes to choose from.

 

Baked Brie Pumpkins

These spooky, melty Baked Brie Pumpkins are the perfect add to any seasonal cheeseboard. Especially around Halloween!

Equipment

  • 1 Cocotte
  • Kitchen twine

Ingredients

  • 1 Wheel of brie (you might need to cut the edges depending on how large the brie is)– just add the edges to your cheese plate!
  • Puff pastry (enough to completely wrap the brie)
  • 1 Egg whisked with a little water (eggwash)
  • Cooking spray
  • A few leaves of sage 
  • 1/2 A cinnamon stick

The brown butter (this yields enough to add some to your cheese board as well)

  • 1 Stick butter
  • 1 tbsp Pumpkin puree
  • 1 tsp Pumpkin spice

Instructions 

  • Preheat oven to 400 and remove puff pastry from freezer to allow it to come to room temperature.
  • Start by making your pumpkin brown butter by heating butter on medium to low heat. Stir and it should start to brown and be golden after about 5 min.
  • Add the butter to a bowl and whip over ice until it hardens, about 5-8 minutes. Before it gets too hard, add pumpkin puree and pumpkin spice and combine.
  • Roll out puff pastry and cut out a square that is big enough to fully wrap around the brie. I made mine a little larger to be safe, you can always remove excess once you wrap.
  • Once it’s still pliable but firm, add a small dollop of the pumpkin brown butter to the center of the puff pastry square. Add brie to the center and pull the sides of puff pastry to the middle until fully covered. Brush with egg wash to help keep it closed.
  • Using kitchen twine, wrap (similar to a present) each bun into the shape of a pumpkin (4 pieces of twine/ yielding 8 wedges of pumpkin). Using scissors, snip off the loose ends of the twine.
  • Spray cocottes with cooking spray and add brie pumpkins. Brush with egg wash and bake for about 25 min or until the top is golden brown and the brie is bubbling. Let cool slightly and remove from cocotte. Cut twine and top with cinnamon stick. Serve with whatever fixins you want!

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