Fig and Cheese Tarts Smothered with Bacon
Sweet, salty, creamy, crunchy in a cute little package
Ingredients
- 5 strips bacon
- 15 phyllo cups
- 4 ounces goat cheese
- 4-1/2 tablespoons fig preserves
Instructions
- An hour before cooking, place goat cheese on counter to soften.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Heat a large frying pan over medium heat.
- Add bacon, cooking until crispy. (About 5 minutes)
- Transfer bacon to a paper-towel lined plate
- Place unfilled phyllo cups in a mini muffin pan or on a baking sheet, and bake for 2 minutes.
- While they bake, combine goat cheese and fig preserves in a small bowl, stirring until well distributed.
- Remove cups from oven.
- Divide cheese mixture evenly among the cups.
- Return the cups to the oven, and bake for 5 minutes.
- While cups bake, dice bacon.
- Remove tarts from oven, and top with bacon.