Baked Brie Puffs

This is the second recipe I'm entering in an online food contest. It's really easy, and if you're ever throwing a party or a get together, this looks really nice and sophisticated. The challenge was Oscar night movie-bites and I debated whether or not to do pretzel bites with ale-mustard dip or baked brie-puffs. I think the brie-puffs won because they seem more in tune with the Oscar night theme.

Baked Brie Puffs with Raspberry sauce

- Pre-packaged puff pastry
- Small round of brie or wedge of brie
- ½ cup sliced almonds
- honey
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup raspberry jam
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 teaspoon lime juice
- Zest of one orange
- 1 egg yolk mixed with 1 tspn water
* depending on the size of the brie wedge or round, you may have left over puff pastry

Directions
1. Thaw your puff pastry and butter a cookie sheet. Preheat the oven to 400.
2. Cut the round of brie into one inch size pieces
3. Divide each pastry sheet into 9 squares

4. Wrap your Brie pieces in pastry squares,
folding the corners in and tucking the edges under.
Make sure to pinch and seal all the ends together tightly. Mold the tops to look more rounded.
5. Brush the puff pastry with the egg wash and bake for 15-20 minutes. Meanwhile mix honey with the almonds until thoroughly coated.

6. Drizzle the baked brie puffs with honey and top with the almond mixture. Stick it back in the oven at 375 for 3-5 minutes or until golden brown and caramelized. Serve with powdered sugar lightly dusted over.

7. Meanwhile, mix the jam, water, sugar, zest and limejuice in a saucepan and let simmer. Take off the heat when the mixture has thickened slightly. Drizzle over the brie puffs.
• since blood oranges happened to be in season when I made this recipe, I substituted blood orange juice for the water and lime juice


You may notice that the puffs when topped with the almonds don't appear to have been baked. This is because in testing out the recipe, I just drizzled the tops with honey and scattered raw almonds over them. The almonds toasted too quickly, and I realized that I should have brushed the puffs with egg wash first, and then stuck them back in the oven after having already baked for a while with a thoroughly incorporated almond and honey mixture.

Please help me out by voting for me, Baked Brie Puffs by Shlieka in the Movie night challenge on MixingBowl.com. Thanks!