Fig & Blue Cheese Tarts

I bought this JJ&B

Fig & Walnut Jam

at our local

White Rock Local Market

It is amazing

Fig & Blue Cheese Tarts

(From Paula Deen's Christmas Magazine) 

Ingredients

• 2 (1.9 oz) packages frozen mini phyllo shells
• 1/2 cup fig/walnut preserves ( you can use fig preserves and add 1/2 cup chopped walnuts)
• 1 (3 oz) package cream cheese, softened
• 3 oz blue cheese, crumbled
• 1/2 cup balsamic vinegar
• 

Directions

• Preheat oven 400 degrees. Place phyloo shells in cups of miniature muffin pans
• In a small bowl, combine fig/walnut preserves, cream cheese, and blue cheese, stirring to combine. Spoon mixture into phyllo shells.  Bake for 10 minutes.
• In a small saucepan, bring balsamic vinegar to boil over medium-heat high heat. Reduce heat, and simmer for 8 to 10 minutes or until vinegar is reduced by 1/3 cup. Cool for 10 minutes.  Spoon vinegar reduction over tarts. Serve immediately.

These are AMAZING.   We actually served them at a Breaking Dawn party, then I made them for a wine party.  They are perfect with hearty reds such as Cabernet Sauvignon. 

Buy quality blue cheese and crumble it yourself.  It really makes a different.