These Mini Popovers are baked until puffed and golden then are filled with brie cheese and slices of fresh seckel pear. They are delicious appetizers that are great for holiday parties or appetizer to a special meal with the family.
There is nothing more pleasing to the taste buds than a warm mini popover with a creamy cheese filling. Brie is the perfect cheese to use in these appetizers and it pairs really well with the fresh pear.
Holiday Appetizer Ideas
I especially love to serve these Mini Popovers during the holidays. Christmas Eve and New Years Eve are two of my favorite times to make these. My entire family loves this Festive Cranberry Pecan Brie wrapped in crescent dough and topped with sugared cranberries.
Because I love bite sized appetizers that you can hold in your hand, I started making these mini popovers with brie cheese and seckel pears. Now it is an expected holiday appetizer from my family that is made every year.
What Are Popovers
Popovers are very similar to yorkshire pudding. I also compare them to cream puffs. They basically have the same type of ingredients but they are cooked in muffin pans or pans made specifically for popovers and the batter is mixed in a bowl rather than over the heat on the stove.
The flavor of popovers is typically savory and oftentimes cheese is added to them. These mini popovers have the cheese in the center after baking, making the cheese more discernible. The addition of seckel pear adds a contrast of sweetness to the popover.
🥘 Ingredients
The ingredients for these mini popovers are super basic and are most likely ingredients you already have on hand.
All-purpose flour
Salt
Whole milk
Butter
Canola oil
Cooking spray
🍽 Equipment
Mixing Bowl (medium sized)
🔪 Instructions
Step 1:
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Spray mini muffin tins with cooking spray and set aside.
- In a medium sized bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk, and oil until combined.
- Add the flour and salt. Beat the flour mixture into the egg mixture until smooth.
- Fill the prepared cups half full with batter.
Step 2:
- Bake the mini popovers for 20 minutes. Remove from the oven, slit the tops of the popover and place a small slice of brie cheese inside the slit.
- Place the popovers back in the oven and bake 5 minutes. Serve immediately with pears if desired.
👪 Serving size
This recipe makes 24 mini popovers; 2 popovers equals 1 serving.
💭 Top tip
- Mix the mini popovers ahead of time and when ready to bake, just scoop into the mini muffin pans and bake.
- Freeze baked popovers without the cheese up to 3 months. When ready to use, thaw, add the cheese, and pop in the oven for 5 minutes.
📖 Variations
- Substitute any soft cheese for the brie. Camembert, goat cheese, or gorgonzola are good substitutes.
- Besides the pears, these mini popovers can be served with apples, grapes, or apricots.
More Appetizer Recipes
Grape Stuffed Goat Cheese Appetizers
Cranberry Pistachio Goat Cheese Bites
Jalapeno Pimento Cheese Spread
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📖 Recipe
Mini Popovers with Brie and Pears
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Ingredients
- Non-stick cooking spray
- 2 eggs beaten
- 1 cup milk
- 1 tablespoon cooking oil
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 seckel pear , sliced
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Spray a mini muffin pan with cooking spray and set aside.
- In a medium-sized bowl, using a wire whisk, mix together the eggs, milk, and oil until combined.
- Add the flour and salt; beat until smooth.
- Fill the prepared muffin cups half full with the batter.
- Bake for 20 minutes, remove from oven, slit tops of popover and place a small chunk of brie cheese inside the opening.
- Place the popovers back in the oven and bake 5 minutes more. Serve with pears if desired.
Stephanie
That is a beautiful post. The inspiration in my life is my father. He is always calm and cool; no problem is too big for him. He is smart, fair and extremely giving. I just hope I can emulate half of his even temperment and caring soul in my own life.
Patsyk
Happy 4 years of blogging, Shelby! I always have enjoyed your posts! Glad we have met virtually, and one day hope to meet you in person and bake together!
scrambledhenfruit
Congratulations on your four year blogaversary! I came over from Barbara Bakes to find your lovely blog, and your kind giveaway. My inspiration is my mom, who never ceases to amaze me with her energy and enthusiasm! 🙂
Deb Darling
Happy blog anniversary. I love your blog and look forward to every new post. I sure loved this post and understand why you were inspired by your grandma. My inspiration was my mom....she's been gone 10 years and sometimes I wish I could just talk with her one more time. I started baking with her at the age of three, and then learning how to cook everything else as I got older. Every thing I am or hope to be I learned from my angel mother. I smile too, because if I love you...I cook for you, just as she did for me, my brothers and her friends and family. Thanks again.
Desi
Happy 4 years! To many more!!! My inspiration is my mama. I want to be as good a mother and wife as she has been. She is selfless. Love her so. She is everything in my life and I can't imagine life without her!
Amy
Happy Blog Anniversary! 🙂 What a lovely recipe.
My Grandmother inspires me the most, both in the kitchen and in life. I learn to be a strong and courageous woman like her and dare to try news things in the kitchen. I only wish my Grandma is living closer to me. I really miss her.
Thanks for this wonderful giveaway.
amy [at] utry [dot] it
Mari @ Mari's Cakes
4 years!! Happy Bloggerversary! Cheers to many more blogging years and sharing your great recipes!
elizabeth
Happy Anniversary! I am relatively new to your blog - and love it, and all your inspiration.
I think my greatest inspiration was a friend - 10 years older, when I was in my 20's...she raved about my culinary genius (she was a true friend - I was just learning.) -- and she encouraged and made me think I could cook or bake any thing I set my mind to.
Leslie
WOw...4 years...time sure does fly! Happy Anniversary to you...and many more to come
Megan's Cookin'
Happy birthday Shelby. 4 years is quite an accomplishment and hope for many many more years. It's been quite fun keeping up with you and the family! Thank you for the peek into your life and the many great recipes! My mom planted the seed of the love to cook but my sister in law has really inspired me in later years.
Bri Fong
happy blogiversary! my mom is a great inspiration.. shes always a great cook and unconditionally loving and supportive...
i love brie and im excited to try your bites!!
honeyb
Four years down, and don't ever stop! This is too much fun. "Meeting" people all over the world who have the same feelings about food, family and fun! Happy Blogiversary! Thanks for being so kind and for letting me be in on the fun!
Barbara Bakes
Congratulations on four fabulous years! Wishing you many, many more. Thanks for hosting the fun giveaway and bloghop, and asking me to participate. My mom is my inspiration. She was a wonderful, loving person who always made everyone feel special.
Cristine
Happy blogiversary!!! I am so thankful to have "met" you! Thanks for including me in your celebration!
Di
Happy blogiversary, Shelby! Thanks for inviting me to join you in your celebration. Here's to four more wonderful years (or more!). =)
Lizzy Do
My mom is my cooking inspiration...we grew up in a small town in Iowa...but somehow she tried exotic dishes and found elusive ingredients like filo and orange flower water. She's now in a memory unit...but would have had a blast cooking with me. She was very artistic, and I would have loved her help with photography and food styling.
Happy anniversary!!!
Peggy Clyde
My greatest inspiration to me is also my grandma. She lived a life of service, always thinking of others first. I used to help her make soap outside in her #3 tub. She also bottled her fruit and venison outside in another tub. She was a wonderful cook. I am trying to be the kind of grandma she was. Thanks for all of your wonderful recipes.
Coleen
Happy 4th Anniversary Shelby!! This IS quite a daily diary of our lives, come to think about it. The most inspirational person in my life is my picky-picky husband. He works hard every day to cope with aspergers syndrome and his ever positive "can-do" attitude shines through. All through our 46 years together, he has been my biggest cheerleader.
Winniewinkle
I am so glad I was looking at North Country Now .com when I looked at your blog for the first time.You write beautifully and make my life that much better with your sweetness and delicious recipes.Thank you Shelby! My first memories of cooking are with my grandmother,Martha Stevens,she loved to have me cook with her.I made cooking my life work.I am now retired but still a foodie at heart.This last June I was diagnosed with diabetes and have been collecting recipes and converting recipes to fit my new diet.All is good.Thanks again "grumpyshoneybunch!"
Pegasuslegend
What an inspiration you are. One of my fondest memories is my moms, grandmoms and Aunts for making traditions many years to still live on in their memories by all of us kids cooking. Reading this made me smile, over and over. I am thrilled to say Happy 4th Birthday to you. What a fun post, those pies look magnificient. I just wished that through participating here I can just get a little taste too (smile).... thanks for a great 4 years and looking forward to many many more...