Hot Pepper Jelly Cheese Brick

This Hot Pepper Jelly Cheese Brick is delicious and easy to make! A perfect appetizer for your Thanksgiving or Holiday celebration.

Course Appetizer

Cuisine American

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 25

Total Time 30

Servings servings

Calories 104kcal

Ingredients

1/2 green pepper, diced
1/2 red pepper, diced
1 cups of sugar
1/2 cup white vinegar
1/2 cup water
1 teaspoon hot sauce, or to taste (optional)
1 (8 oz) cream cheese brick

Instructions

Combine all ingredients less the cream cheese in a medium saucepan. Cook mixture over medium-low heat, stirring occasionally until the mixture has reduced by half and thicken, about 25 - 30 minutes.
Turn off the heat and let it cool.
Pour hot pepper jelly over the cream cheese brick and serve with crackers or mini tartlets.
If not using immediately pour the mixture into a glass jar and store in the refrigerator for up to three weeks.

Notes

If you want to add more heat you could add a jalapeño pepper, crushed red pepper flakes or cayenne pepper.

For the mini tartlets, I used store-bought pie dough. I cut it with a round cookie cutter and arrange the rounds in an ungreased mini muffin pan. Then baked them for 10- 12 minutes at 425ºF.

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