Get party ready with these easy pastry bites to serve as an enticing appetizers at your next gathering!

Cranberry Pastry Bites n a white plate on the counter.

Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 13-15 mins~For Pastry
Cook Time: 8 mins~For Pecans
Total Time: 36-38 mins
Servings: 48

Ingredients:

puff pastry sheets
whole berry cranberry sauce
black pepper
toasted pecans-optional

Pecans, black pepper, cranberry sauce and puff pastry sheets on parchment paper on the counter

Get the full printable instructions with measurements at the bottom of the post in the recipe card.

Step 1: Preheat oven to 400º F.

Step 2: Defrost puff pastry and then roll out. Using a sharp knife cut one of the puff pastry sheets into 24 separate approx. 2-inch square pieces and repeat with the second sheet. *If puff pastry is hard to work with, put it back into the refrigerator for 60 seconds to chill and then try again.

Pastry cut up in 24 pieces on floured parchment paper on the counter and one piece is in the muffin tray on a blue baking sheet on the counter.

Step 3: Using a silicone mini muffin tray, gently mold the puff pastry into the mini muffin cups. Fill each pastry shell with ½ tsp of the cranberry sauce. Then grinding a pepper grinder 2-4 times, sprinkle black pepper evenly over the filled pastry cups. Bake for approx. 12-15 minutes or until lightly brown.

raw pastry with cranberry sauce in a red silicone mini muffin tray on the counter.

Step 4: While the pastry bites are baking, toast the pecans. Using parchment paper, line a baking sheet and evenly spread a layer of the nuts. Place the nuts into the oven already set at oven to 400° F. Roast the nuts for 3-4 minutes then rotate the baking sheet and further roast another 3-4 minutes or until nuts are aromatic. Let pecans cool completely before breaking them into pieces.

Lined up pecans on a line baking sheet on the top of the stove.

Broken up pieces of roasted pecans on a lined baking sheet on top of the stove.

Step 5: When pastry bites are done baking, top with pieces of toasted pecans and serve immediately!

Cranberry Pastry Bites

Get party ready with these easy pastry bites to serve as an enticing appetizers at your next gathering!

Tara

Prep Time 20

Cook Time 20

Total Time 40

Servings

Equipment

2 silicone mini muffin tray

Ingredients

1 lb puff pastry sheets (2 sheets)
24 tsp whole berry cranberry sauce
⅛ tsp black pepper
⅛-¼ cup toasted pecans (optional)

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400º F.
Defrost puff pastry and then roll out onto lightly floured parchment paper. Using a sharp knife cut one of the puff pastry sheets into 24 separate approx. 2-inch square pieces and repeat with the second sheet. *If puff pastry is hard to work with, put it back into the refrigerator for 60 seconds to chill and then try again.
Using a silicone mini muffin tray only, gently mold the cut pastry into the mini muffin cups. Fill each pastry shell with ½ tsp of the whole cranberry sauce. Then grinding a pepper grinder 3-4 times, sprinkle black pepper evenly over the filled pastry cups. Bake for approx. 13-15 minutes or until lightly brown.
While the pastry bites are baking, toast the pecans. Using parchment paper, line a baking sheet and evenly spread a layer of the nuts. Place the them into the oven set at 400° F. Roast the nuts for 3-4 minutes then rotate the baking sheet and further roast another 3-4 minutes or until nuts are aromatic. Let pecans cool completely before breaking them into pieces.
When pastry bites are done baking, top with pieces of toasted pecans and serve immediately!