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Figs and Toasted Almonds Brie

“Brie cheese smothered with fresh figs cooked with brown sugar, vanilla, and almonds, then baked until almost melted. Serve warm with water crackers as a wonderful holiday appetizer or special treat during fig season. Canned figs in syrup may be substituted for fresh by reducing the brown sugar to 1/4 cup and replacing the water with syrup.”

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Reviewed: Nov. 30, 2008

Excellent and easy appetizer. Looks very pretty on the table. I read a bunch of reviews and have come to decide that it's all about personal taste. I love Brie and I'm not a HUGE fan of sweet. So, I need to accomodate that. Others might really need the sweet (or love the sweet) to work with the richness of the cheese. I doubled the syrup as per other reviews. Really found it would have been fine without. I ended up tossing a bunch of the leftover figs and syrup. I'd probably use a little less brown sugar too. It was really super sweet. A total hit regardless. The chums agree it was too sweet. I might try to throw some cranberries in next time to tone down the cavity factor. Worth perfecting to your own personal taste. If you like super sweet, double up and use lots of sugar. If not, keep it simple and perhaps look for a nice offset flavor to add.

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mavery28

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Living In: Rochester, New York, USA

Reviewed: Oct. 18, 2008

YUM! Also great with goat cheese, if you don't have brie. I made both side by side and the goat cheese seemed a little sweeter.

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WalkingStomach

Reviewed: Oct. 16, 2008

I didn't have brie, so I used camembert instead. We had it with toasted baguettes over our Sunday afternoon gathering. Everyone liked it. However, I'll add more water to make the fig more syrupy when I make it again.

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Kahori526

Cooking Level: Beginning

Reviewed: Oct. 5, 2008

It was a good recipe but I couldn't find cheese rounds at Trader Joe's only wedges and used that instead. My fig mixture was so hot that it melted the brie too much which was still really yummy.

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Maddy's momma

Reviewed: Aug. 30, 2008

I made this for a wine tasting party I hosted and got great compliments. It was quick and easy. Used canned figs. I almost dumped the fig/brown sugar mixture because I got a big waft of throwup smell in the first 5 minutes of heating it on the stove. So glad I didn't - the weird smell went away and the end result was so much more complex, savory and elegant than the brie with raspberry combination. I gave the recipe out to the girls and plan to make again!

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SMalt

Reviewed: Aug. 17, 2008

These were great after initially not liking this. But, I stuck with it and reread some of the reviews to see what I needed to do to make it better. 1) Don't eat it with heavy crackers like Wasa- it messes up the flavor combination. We used Honey Butter Ritz and that was much better. 2) Next time I'll chop up the figs because they hold together too much in just quarters and it's hard to spread on a cracker without getting a huge glob of fig. 3) Be sure to cook the figs, sugar, water, vanilla combo long enough to get it think and goopy. It needs to blend well with each other. Very exotic tasting and fancy! We had it with Salmon and Wild Rice and it was a fabulous meal!

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dabergmans

Reviewed: Jul. 15, 2008

This was the first to make this but it was extremely easy and fast! Everyone loved it!

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lovechristmas

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Living In: Birmingham, Alabama, USA

Reviewed: May 24, 2008

A wonderful way to have Brie. I loved it w/ the figs. I baked this for 20 minutes so the brie was nice and warm and soft. I doubled everything in the recipe so there was tons of topping to go around.

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Jessika393

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Reviewed: Mar. 15, 2008

I also used packaged figs but they were still soft and I cut them into tiny pieces, simmered in dark brown sugar, a little more water, added a pinch of cinnamon and nutmeg and toasted lmond slivers. Is the hit of my party. Served with those little tiny toasts from Trader Joes. YUM!

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nikkiw421

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Reviewed: Feb. 3, 2008

I've made this twice for company and have received rave reviews. Both times, I have used dried figs. Same quantity, but diced. I also use more water to help hydrate the figs. (Sorry, I eyeballed it - probably about 4 tbsp total). I also didn't bother toasting the almonds. No one seemed to mind!

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