pat's Recipe

Fig and Blue Cheese Appetizer Tarts

Category: Appetizers served hot/warm

3 oz 1/3-less-fat cream cheese (Neufchatel; from 8-oz package), softened
2/3 cup crumbled blue cheese (3 oz)
1/4 cup Orange Marmalade
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
6 dried Mission figs, coarsely chopped (1 cup)
1 can (10.1 oz) Pillsbury Big & Flaky refrigerated crescent dinner rolls (6 rolls)1/2 cup Chopped Pecans

DIRECTIONS
1 Heat oven to 350 degreesF. In small bowl, mix cream cheese and blue cheese with fork until well blended; set aside.
2 In 1-quart saucepan, stir marmalade and vinegar over low heat until mixed; stir in figs. Cook over low heat 5 to 7 minutes, stirring occasionally, until figs are softened. Remove from heat.
3 Remove crescent dough from package, but do not unroll. Cut roll of dough into 16 slices. On 2 ungreased cookie sheets, place slices 2 inches apart. Press center of each slice to make indentation, 1 1/2 inches in diameter.
4 Place 1 heaping teaspoon cheese mixture into each well. Top cheese with about 1 tablespoon fig mixture and 1 1/2 teaspoon pecans.
5 Bake 15 to 19 minutes or golden brown. Remove from cookie sheets to cooling rack; cool 10 minutes. Serve warm.
Makes 16 appetizers.