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Herb Cream Cheese, Fall Fruit & Honey Crostini Recipe

Servings: 10
Author: D. Durand Worthey

Ingredients

  • 1 French baguette
  • 1 black plum or regular plum
  • 1 nectarine
  • 1 Pink Lady apple
  • 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 tablespoons melted unsalted butter
  • 1 8- ounce package room temperature cream cheese
  • Sprigs of fresh rosemary
  • Sprigs of fresh thyme
  • honey
  • flaky sea salt to taste
  • freshly cracked black peppercorns to taste

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  • Using a bread knife slice French baguette into ten (10) 1/4 inch rounds. Place the rounds on a baking sheet.
  • Into a small saucepan add the butter and melt it over med-low heat. Remove the pan from the heat and add extra virgin olive oil.
  • Brush the top and bottom and tops of the baguette rounds with the butter and extra virgin olive oil mixture.
  • Sprinkle with flaky sea salt and freshly cracked black peppercorns to taste.
  • Place the sheet pan on the middle rack of a 350 degree preheated oven. Bake for 15-20 minutes. Rotate at the midway point, and turn over crostini to brown the bottom. 
  • Remove the crostini from the oven and allow the crostini to cool then top each toasted round with herb honey cream cheese, and fresh fruit fall fruit. 
  • Drizzle with your favorite honey, we used Thyme honey.
  • Add a fresh mint leaf.
  • Serve.