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”
Sounds like you drew the long straw this thanksgiving, Nathalie! I bet these went down really well. I’ve always wished we had something like Thanksgiving over here, too. It sounds like such a lovely holiday, and you don’t even have to buy gifts. Just eat, by the sounds of it! I could certainly handle that!
Oh my goodness, two Thanksgivings!! That sounds like heaven! Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays and one I definitely wouldn’t mind having two of! I also wouldn’t mind have two of these cranberry orange crostini!! Or three, or four…. I love the flavors and they go lovely with the cream cheese!
Never thought to make a cranberry flavoured crostini before! What a delicious appetizer idea.. definitely need to make the recipe for the upcoming Christmas period!
So classy…and so zippy in flavor! Love this recipe. It’s lovely to behold!
love this crostini! so great that you can prep for it ahead of time :-) Enjoy your two Thanksgivings Natalie; I’m also lucky enough to have both sides of our family in town so I know that deal! Two dinners, TONS of food, wine and fun. Love it! Cheers!
This would be a totally gorgeous addition to any holiday feast! Love the cranberry and orange combo!
Can you bring the appetizers to my Thanksgiving too? The orange and cranberry pair sounds amazing, and then mixed with tart goat cheese and I swooooon.
You can be in charge of my appetizers, Natalie, and I will give you plenty of wine, ok? I love this crostini — pinned!
This Thanksgiving I’m bringing *nada* because we’re heading back to CA, so I plan to snack and sip my way through the holiday! Though with these beauties looking so good (and quick!) I may just surprise everyone and whip these up at my parent’s house Thursday morning anyway. :) Love that you celebrate with both families (and that you get double the apple pie — mmm!) Enjoy it, Nat!
What a fabulous recipe, Natalie! Love, love, love the flavors here and can not wait to try this! It’s so festive and offers a variety of textures to please one’s palate! I know they won’t last long when I serve these beauties up!
You’re video is spot on perfection! Sweet music, just the facts and the camera is on the food being prepared. Thats is all.
Y’all have a beautiful and memorable double Thanksgiving, Natalie!!
Yum! I’ll need to try baking cranberries like that! The video is great!
You should definitely try it Matea! The cranberries still keep their shape, and your house smells amazing while they’re roasting away.
This looks so delicious, what a great idea Natalie! And the VIDEO! It’s amazing girl! I tend to dislike most recipe videos because they’re either boring (don’t need to see every ingredient measured out!), way too long or a combination of both! Yours is just about perfect!
Nora, that is probably the nicest thing you could have said! I try and make the recipe vidoes quick and just show the “cooking” part without any talking, since that is all I really want to see when I watch other recipe videos. But sometimes I doubt myself because everyone else’s are so long and they’re talking about the recipe so much (which I find quite boring and not useful). I debate whether I should do that too. Thank you for affirming that my “format” is good! You just made my day and put a big smile on my face. Seriously, thank you! I’m virtually hugging you all the way from California!
You two are so lucky to have both families close by! I wish I had that!! What a perfect appetizer for thanksgiving. These are gorgeous and they sound delicious!
These look delicious! I love the vibrant shade of red! Have a wonderful Thanksgiving! :)
wow that looks delicious. i want this at my thanksgiving! i’m hosting for the first time and i’m getting really nervous about the turkey! i’m sure it will work out just fine though- even if it’s a flop it will be a good story to tell :) have two happy thanksgivings!
I have two Thanksgiving meals on the same day…one with my family and then with my husband’s family. Makes for some great eating! These crostinis look amazing, Natalie! I love that you can make them in advance to save on time. These wouldn’t last long in my house at all!
Oh my! This looks delicious!!! And seems so easy to make. I can totally picturing myself nibbling on some of those while I’m dealing with the Thanksgiving madness. (Usually everybody is enjoying drinks and appetizers and I’m a mad woman in the kitchen…)
Ooooh these look delish!! Such an easy and yummy appetizer – I love the roasted cranberry topping.
Appetizers that can be made ahead are a must for Thanksgiving! The cranberry-orange combo is one of my favorites, and I can’t resist whipped cream cheese! These crostini have such a great mix of flavors and textures.
Haha! I’m right there with ‘ya on not being allowed to even touch the “big-league” Thanksgiving dishes! But I’m more than happy to leave the turkey baking to my mom—that would be soooo stressful for me! LOL. And this crostini! Can I even describe how freaking gorgeous these little bites are?! I absolutely love that the cranberries are roasted too! I’ll bet that makes for unbelievable flavor! I want these on my appetizer table on Thursday. Actually, need. :) Pinned!