These crunchy cranberry goat cheese crostini appetizers are perfect for the fall and for festive holidays. Slather crostini with goat cheese (chèvre) and cranberry sauce and garnish with fresh chopped rosemary.
Looking for cranberry sauce recipe ideas? Cranberry goat cheese crostini are a festive and easy appetizer.
The creamy goat cheese complements the sweet and savory cranberry sauce.
Cranberry Crostini vs. Cranberry Bruschetta
Crostini is an Italian word for little toasts.
Crostini are perfect as appetizers and can be topped with cold or hot ingredients. Cranberry crostinis are the perfect cranberry recipe appetizer, especially with creamy goat cheese.
Bruschetta is also Italian. Buschetta is similar to crostini, except it's generally made with larger bread and has a hot topping. This cranberry sauce can be served hot as a cranberry bruschetta appetizer as well.
Make Cranberry Goat Cheese Crostini Ahead Of Time
Both the crostini and the cranberry sauce can be made before you need them. Assembly of the cranberry goat cheese crostini will need to happen the day of.
The crostini (toasts) can be made up to two days before, cooled, and stored in a ziploc bag with the edge left slightly open. This makes them not get too soft and also not get too hard.
Cranberry sauce for the crostini can be made up to one week before you actually need it.
Assemble Cranberry And Goat Cheese Crostini
The cranberry sauce and the crostini can be made ahead of time, but the actual cranberry crostini appetizer needs to be assembled before serving.
Slather the fresh creamy goat cheese thickly on the crostini and top with the cranberry sauce. Add a garnish of fresh rosemary or parsley.
Cranberry Goat Cheese Crostini FAQS
Slice the baguette on the diagonal. This will give you more surface area and larger crostini's to work with.
Like cranberry sauce? Double the recipe.
Eat the cranberry sauce on buttery toast for breakfast, serve with peanut butter sandwiches in place of jelly, serve it with ham / chicken / turkey, or just freeze it for later.
Cranberry crostini can be made with fresh or frozen cranberries. Any orange will work but seedless navel oranges are the sweetest and readily available.
Cranberry sauce thickens as it cools and can be made several days before. Because of the sugar, it will last nearly two weeks in the refrigerator.
Cranberry Goat Cheese Crostini
These cranberry goat cheese crostini appetizers are perfect for fall and festive holidays. Slather crostini with goat cheese (chèvre) and cranberry sauce. Garnish with fresh rosemary.
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour
- Yield: ~30
- Category: Appetizer
- Method: Stovetop / Oven
- Cuisine: International
- Diet: Vegetarian
Ingredients
Ingredients for Cranberry Sauce (makes ~ 1 ½ cups)
- 6 oz whole fresh or frozen cranberries
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ orange, juiced and zested
- ~¼ cup water
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Ingredients for Crostini
- 1 large baguette
- 8 ounces chèvre (goat cheese), room temperature
- 1 cup cranberry sauce
- 2 Tbsp rosemary, chopped
- e.v. olive oil
- salt
- black pepper
Instructions
Instructions for Cranberry Sauce (double this recipe if you want leftover sauce)
- Zest half of the orange and set zest aside for garnish. Juice half of the orange.
- Add cranberries, sugar, orange juice and ¼ cup water to small pot. Stir, cover and bring to a boil.
- Uncover, reduce heat to simmer, and cook (stirring occasionally) ~12 minutes or until cranberries are audibly and visually "popping" and sauce is thickened.
- If sauce is too thick, add water 2 tablespoon at a time until desired thickness (note: sauce will continue to thicken as it cools).
- Add salt to taste (careful it's hot!). Garnish with desired amount of fresh orange zest. Serve hot or cold. It will be easier to make the crostini's if it's cold (and also thicker). Happy Eating! Beckie
Instructions for Crostini
- Preheat the oven to 350F.
- Slice one large baguette on the diagonal (you should get ~30-35 pieces). Baste each side of every slice with a little e.v. olive oil. Lightly sea salt and pepper both sides.
- Bake on a lined sheet at 350F ~ 8- 10 minutes uncovered. You want these guys to be crispy but not burnt. Some people say toast until golden, but they’ve gone too long if they start changing to a darker color. After all, you want the roof of your mouth to stay intact.
- Slather on some goat cheese.
- Slather on some cranberry sauce.
- Top with chopped rosemary. Happy Eating! Beckie
Notes
- Like cranberry sauce? Double the recipe so you have some at the dinner table. Eat it on buttery toast for breakfast, serve with peanut butter sandwiches in place of jelly, or freeze.
- Cranberry sauce stays good in fridge ~ 2 weeks.
- The crostini can be made up to two days before, cooled, and stored in a ziploc bag with the edge left slightly open (this makes them not get too soft and also not get too hard).
- Slice the baguette on the diagonal. This will give you more surface area and larger crostini's to work with.
Things In My Kitchen:
- Wide Zester - I love the visualness of this zesters wide citrus strings.
- Old School Juicer - Had a version of this juicer since I moved out of my parents house. LONG TIME!
- 9" Bread Knife - Victorinox is a solid company and I like the curved handle for slicing bread.
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