Cranberry cinnamon goat cheese appetizer on the table in just 5 minutes! Everyone loves this 3 ingredient amazingly delicious goat cheese starter, and it disappears in minutes! But no worries, you can whip up more, since it is so quick to make!
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Best Cranberry Goat Cheese Appetizer
What tools do you need to make this amazingly delicious appetizer? You only need two tools:
– Butter knife or a small spoon to spread goat cheese on a cracker.
– Cutting Board to serve these delicious goat cheese bites. You can serve them on a platter as well, but this delicious goat cheese and cranberry appetizer looks really cool, when served on a cutting board.
What ingredients do you need to make these goats cheese snacks? You need just four ingredients for this delicious appetizer:
– Cranberry Sauce, this is actually a perfect recipe for using up your leftover cranberry sauce. Use canned sauce, or use leftover Instant Pot Cranberry Sauce or Fresh Cranberry Orange Relish. Any one of these sauces will work great in this recipe.
– Cinnamon, if the cranberry sauce above doesn’t already contain cinnamon.
– Crackers, any crackers will do, we like small round butter crackers for this dish.
– Plain Goat Cheese, or Brie cheese will work for this appetizer.
More Easy Appetizers
We love easy appetizers – who has time for complicated ones? Check out these easy and super delicious starters:
– 10 Minute Charcuterie Board, another 10 minute appetizer with cheese and crackers. Learn how to make a charcuterie board in 10 minutes.
– Extra Crispy Air Fryer Chicken Wings (made from Fresh or Frozen), the most amazing, crispy chicken wings can be made right now even if all you have are frozen wings. Click to find out how.
– How To Make Cheesy Garlic Bread With Regular Bread, everyone loves garlic bread, and it makes for a great appetizer. Best thing about this delicious garlic bread is that comes together in 15 minutes.
– Perfect Classic Deviled Eggs, everyone loves deviled eggs, and you can
– Healthy Air Fryer Sweet Potato Fries, easy and delicious sweet potato fries take just a few minutes to make, and they are super healthy, too! You need almost no oil to make them, and they taste deep fried!
– Keto Cucumber Salmon Bites, are another appetizer that comes together in 10 minutes! Made with just 3 ingredients, salmon, cucumbers and cream cheese, everyone is going to love this delicious appetizer!
How To Use Up Leftover Cranberry Sauce
Got some leftover Instant Pot Cranberry Sauce? Or maybe some leftover Cranberry Relish? Both will be great in this recipe!
If you have some leftover canned cranberry sauce, it will work great for this recipe too!
How To Make Cranberry Cinnamon Goat Cheese Appetizer
This appetizer is so easy to make! First, combine cranberry sauce with a bit of cinnamon, and mix together.
Arrange crackers on a cutting board.
Next, spread goat cheese on crackers.
Top the goat cheese with cinnamon cranberry sauce. Serve as an appetizer, before dinner of Air Fryer Chicken Breast, Air Fryer French Fries, Caprese Salad, Instant Pot Caramel Apple Cheesecake and Pumpkin Spice Latte.
What To Serve With Goat Cheese And Cranberry Appetizer
There are so many meals that you can serve, when you serve this simple dish as a starter:
– For a simple turkey dinner, serve on plates with dinner of Instant Pot Turkey Breast, Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Brussels Sprouts With Pecans, Cranberry Apple Infused Water.
– For chicken dinner, serve with Garlic Butter Chicken Breast in Creamy Sauce, Instant Pot Spaghetti Squash, Strawberry Salad With Cherries and Blueberries. And make Instant Pot Apple Cider to serve as the beverage.
– For a Christmas dinner, serve on Christmas plates with Instant Pot Leg of Lamb, Rainbow Roasted Vegetables, Italian Antipasto Salad. Serve Instant Pot Banana Bread Pudding for dessert.
What Other Goat Cheese Appetizers Can You Make?
There are tons of goat cheese appetizers that you can make:
– Fried Eggplant Appetizer With Tomatoes and Goat Cheese, a delicious tower built with fried eggplant, tomato rounds and goat cheese. Easy to make, and so simple!
– Greens With Goat Cheese, Cranberries and Pecans, a simple started salad with goat cheese, pecans and cranberries, a perfect combination.
– Fig Salad With Goat Cheese, Red Onions, Balsamic Vinaigrette, another simple starter salad with goat cheese and other delicious ingredients.
– Cranberry Goat Cheese Log, a simple cheese log made with cranberries and cinnamon. An amazing fall and winter treat.
– Goat Cheese Crostini, a simple cheese log made with cranberries and cinnamon. An amazing fall and winter treat. Or you can make fig and goat cheese crostini, as goat cheese and figs go great together, just like in this Black Fig Salad With Goat Cheese.
– Beets and Goat Cheese Appetizer, we love this delicious appetizer, in which we pair red and golden beets with goat cheese.
Can You Make Goat Cheese And Cranberry Appetizer In Advance?
As it takes just 10 minutes to make this delicious appetizer, we recommend making it right before you serve it.
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5 Minute Goat Cheese Appetizer with Cranberries
Equipment
Ingredients
- 3 tbsp Cranberry Sauce
- ⅛ tsp Ground Cinnamon if using
- 3 tbsp Goat Cheese
- 8 Crackers
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, mix together cinnamon and cranberry sauce. If cranberry sauce already has cinnamon in it, skip this step.
- Arrange the crackers on a cutting board. Spread goat cheese on crackers.
- Top the crackers with cranberry sauce and serve with dinner of Instant Pot Rotisserie Chicken, Watermelon Blueberry Salad, Cauliflower "Potato" Salad.
What a delicious appetizer! I can’t wait to give this a try over the festive season.
So perfect for the holidays and easy to make – thank you!
Cranberry sauce and goat cheese are a match made in heaven. What a wonderful idea for Christmas!
Love how simple yet delicious this is! Everyone enjoyed this flavor combination 🙂
Such a tasty appetizer for the holiday season! I love the cranberry sauce and goat cheese together!
these look amazing! perfect for this time of year
I love this! Can’t wait to play around with types of crackers!!
Would you try a flavored goat cheese for this by any chance?
Oooh, great idea for using up leftover cranberry sauce! I always have extra and it pairs amazingly with goat cheese.
I love a quick and easy appetizer! These look so great and we always have leftover cranberry sauce after the holidays!
Quick, easy and perfect for any guests I might have.
Such a great and quick recipe! I love it and so did the whole family.
I love how simple this appetizer is. Also, it’s delicious and a huge crowd-pleaser. Think I’ll be making this a lot!
I love goat’s cheese and this looks like a great pairing of ingredients. Yum, will have to try it, thanks!
What a quick, easy and fabulous appetizer!
The perfect snack when enjoying a glass of wine with friends before dinner!
This is probably the easiest appetizer I’ve ever made, and it’s always a big hit with family and friends! Every time I make this these little bites disappear within minutes!
This comes together quickly. Love anything with ritz or ritz like crackers in it. Those look delicious.
This was perfect for our little get together recently and a big hit! So tasty and so delicious! Remaking this again!
This looks amazingly simple and delicious. I love how festive it is.
I love goat cheese and this is perfect for a quick snack for me, and an appetizer for the holidays.
Perfect bite size appetizer for the holiday season. It is simple and quick. We loved it!
I love how simple this is. Will surely try soon! Thank you very much for sharing!
Great recipe! Perfect for all the holidays approaching. Looks so festive … thanks for sharing!