Roasted Cranberry and Orange Crostini
Roasted cranberry and orange crostini with cream cheese and orange zest. Can be made 5 days in advance, making it the perfect Thanksgiving appetizer.
Shawn and I both live within 5 minutes of our families. One of the many perks of marrying your high school sweetheart.
On Thanksgiving Day, we go over to Shawn’s parents house and have dinner with his whole extended family. Then on Friday, we go to my parents house and have Thanksgiving Day part 2 with my family. This means we get 2 times the holidays. Double the turkey, double the stuffing, double the apple pie. It is the best!
While I haven’t been called up to the big leagues to cook the important things like turkey and stuffing, I am put in charge of appetizers and desserts. Which means I get all the cooking done before even showing up, and get to relax and chat and drink wine all night.
This year I am bringing this roasted cranberry and orange crostini. The flavors are perfection. Crispy crostini topped with whipped cream cheese, and tart cranberries that are roasted with fresh orange juice and a little sugar.
This roasted cranberry and orange crostini appetizer is great, because you can prep everything up to 5 days in advance. Toast the crostini’s and keep them in an airtight container, then roast the cranberries and keep them refrigerated. On Thanksgiving day you just need to spread the whipped cream cheese on the crostini’s, top them with the roasted cranberries and top them with orange zest.
Roasted Cranberry and Orange Crostini
Ingredients
- 1 baguette, sliced into 1/2" thick slices
- 12 ounce bag fresh cranberries
- 2 oranges, 1 for juice, another for zest
- 1/3 cup white granulated sugar
- Whipped cream cheese
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Arrange the baguette slices in an even layer. Toast in the oven for 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, in a medium size mixing bowl squeeze the juice of 1 orange and sugar. Add in the cranberries, and toss to combine. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper, and spread the cranberries in an even layer. Roast in the oven for 25 minutes.
- At this point, you can transfer the crostini's to a zip top bag kept at room temperature, and the roasted cranberries to an air tight container in the fridge. Both will keep for 5 days.
- When ready to assemble, spread the whipped cream cheese on top of the crostini, top with the roasted cranberries, and top with fresh orange zest.
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38 Comments on “Roasted Cranberry and Orange Crostini”
The ingredients call for 2 oranges and 1/3 cup of sugar. The instructions indicate to use the juice from one orange and 1/4 cup of sugar.
Is the second orange only used for zest? And what is the remaining sugar used for? Is there is a misprint here somewhere?
Thank you.
Hi Roberta! Sorry for the typo. I’ve corrected the recipe so it makes more sense. Hope it helps, and that you love these when you make them!
Great recipe and an awesome video! I lova all the other appetizers, too!
These look amazing. I love cranberry sauce but it seems like its only served during thanksgiving. This will be a fun way to start incorporating cranberry more into my everyday life. Can’t wait to give these a try!
I like the way you think, girl. Just sit back and drink wine. :) When you’ve got a recipe as delicious and easy as this, you’ve got no choice but to be social and enjoy the holiday. Hope you had memorable Thanksgivings!
clever and so cute!!!
This really does look delicious! I also enjoyed two Thanksgiving Day feasts except I did both of the cooking, one on Thursday and another on Sunday……:)
You win! I mean crostini wins, but you win by association :) orange and cranberry is the best. Also you are winning for getting 2 of every holiday…that’s awesome!!
Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! So jealous that you got to go to two of them. These look like the perfect appetizer. I will have to give them a try soon!!
Mmm…fabulous combo. Perfect to serve at the start to every meal! Pinned.
Hope you had a great Thanksgiving Natalie!
I am jealous that you get two thanksgivings and that you get to drink wine and stay out of the kitchen! I always seem to end up being the turkey cooker, which used to be stressful, but now I’ve done it enough that it’s not too bad. These crostinis look delicious, I love your video :)