These delicious and easy puff pastries are just the right size for appetizers or to serve alongside a soup or salad. I use store-bought puff pastry to make the rounds. These are great served warm from the oven or at room temperature (if they last that long!)

Ingredients:

  • 1 sheet frozen puff pastry, thawed and cut into six 4 1/2-inch rounds
  • 3/4 cup shredded white cheddar (3 ounces)
  • 1 small apple, cored and very thinly sliced
  • 1 small beet, scrubbed, peeled, and very thinly sliced
  • Coarse salt and ground pepper
  • 1/2 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
  2. Cut thawed pastry puffs into six 4 1/2-inch rounds.
  3. Place pastry rounds on a parchment-lined baking sheet and prick all over with a fork.
  4. Sprinkle half of the cheese on the pastry rounds.
  5. Top each with 2 to 3 apple slices.
  6. Tuck 2 to 3 beet slices with the apple slices.
  7. Top with remaining cheese.
  8. Season with salt and pepper and sprinkle with thyme.
  9. Bake until pastry is golden brown and slightly puffed (about 13 to 15 minutes).