Pastry Cups with Bacon and Cheese Recipe
This easy pastry cups with bacon and cheese recipe is fancier than it sounds and more delicious with every bite.
Servings 16 Pastry cups
Ingredients
- 1 Pillsbury Original Crescent Rolls 8-oz can
- 4 slices thick-cut bacon
- 1 1/4 cup dry red wine
- 1 tbsp organic honey
- 16-18 dried figs
- 5 oz Jalapeno and Honey Chevre Goats Milk Cheese
- 2 tbsp half and half
- 2 tbsp fresh thyme chopped
- fresh ground black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 375 degrees F (or 350 degrees for dark or nonstick pans). Unroll Pillsbury Original Crescent Roll dough and cut into 16 squares.
- Spray mini cupcake pan with non-stick cooking spray and lay square dough into mini muffin pan so the edges come up on the sides forming a cup.
- Bake for 8 to 9 minutes or until golden brown.
- Once you remove the pan from the oven take a small spoon and reshape the dough so you can fill with your ingredients. Remove cups from pan and cool.
- Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F.
- Arrange 4 thick-cut pieces of bacon on a baking pan lined with foil and then bake until crisp, about 10-12 minutes. Let bacon cool and then cut into small pieces.
- In a medium saucepan stir wine and honey together.
- Then add figs and bring to a boil over medium heat.
- Reduce heat to simmer, then let the figs cook for about 15 minutes until tender. Remove figs from saucepan cut into small slices.
- In a small bowl beat together the goat cheese and half and half until smooth.
- With a small spoon put a dollop of the goat cheese mixture in the Pillsbury cup.
- Then add a few dried figs and sprinkle a few pieces of bacon on top.
- Garnish with a little thyme on top.