Blue cheese and pear cups
Individual appetizer pear cups packed with blue cheese - a great holiday appetizer to get your guests into the festive mood.
SERVES
3
Ingredients
- 1 store bought puff pastry sheet
- 3 pears, cored and sliced into thin wedges
- 1/4 cup blue cheese
- 1/4 cups walnuts, chopped
- Honey (optional)
- 1 egg, beaten for egg wash
Directions
- Preheat oven to 400ºF. Lightly grease a 12-cup muffin tin and set aside.
- Cut 12 even squares from the rolled out puff pastry sheet and place a square into each muffin cup. Lightly brush each puff pastry square with egg wash.
- Fill each cup with pears and bake until pastry is golden and puffed up, about 15-20 minutes. Top with blue cheese and walnuts and return to the oven until cheese has heated through and walnuts have toasted, about three to five minutes.
- To finish, drizzle with honey.
