With its golden pastry crust and creamy interior offset with sweet jam, baked Brie en croûte has been a cocktail-party favorite since the 1980s. It’s a dish that can hit all the right buttons when each of the components is at its peak.
When developing our baked Brie en croute recipe, we assumed that perfectly ripe, soft Brie would be the right choice. In this case, however, perfectly ripe Brie proved disastrous: once we sliced into the baked puff pastry shell, the cheese ...