Brie Cheese Trees

Festive brie cheese trees are made from slices of brie cheese with trunks made from pretzel sticks, topped with a quick and easy, sweet jalapeño and honey sauce.

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Course Appetizer

Cuisine American

Ingredients

8 ounce brie cheese wheel do not remove the rind
4 pretzel sticks broken into halves
2 jalapeño peppers diced
¼ cup honey
2 tablespoons water

Instructions

To create 16 tree-shaped pieces, slice down the center of the wheel vertically and again horizontally. Finally, make two more cuts diagonally. This will create a total of 8 slices in tree shapes. Cut each tree-shaped slice down the center to create two thinner tree-shaped slices. It's important to slice the cheese while it's cold but serve the cheese at room temperature.
Insert a pretzel stick half into the bottom of each slice to create the trunk for each tree.
To prepare the sauce, add the diced jalapeños, honey and water into a small sauce pan. Bring to a low boil and reduce heat to a simmer for about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove the sauce from the heat and allow it to sit for at least 30 minutes before pouring it over the room temperature brie cheese slices.

Notes

Don't bother removing the rind from the brie wheel. Doing so will ruin that perfect tree shape and the rind is completely edible. In fact it adds an earthy flavor that combined with the creamy cheese center, is delicious.

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