French Onion soup bites

We went to a bakery in Charlottesville, VA a month ago when in town for a wedding and had the most delicious French onion soup pastries at cou cou rachou that I wanted to try to replicate for the holidays.

So did a test batch for this morning to feed us before we go to family’s for Thanksgiving.

I didn’t have puff pastry so I used the other half of the pate brisee left after making pumpkin pie for this instead.

Carmelized the onions — totally forgot a pic but did the food and wine thing of cooking them covered for the first 15 mins then I lowered the heat and cooked them for another 3 hours.

Then rolled the crust and cut it, I tried squares and stars, then just used the scraps in the mini tin.

I put a smear of hot pepper jelly in a few of them to try that out too then topped with the onions and shredded Gruyère. I left the cheese off a couple to taste them that way too.

I put them on top of a hot pizza stone in the oven to avoid soggy bottoms. But since I e never cooked pie crust not in a big pie before I think I overcooked these a tiny bit. Not much but I’d back off maybe 5 minutes next time.

All that to say that even tho they’re pretty ugly and not uniform, they were incredibly delicious!! Not bad for a first attempt at all.

Nice to have individual bites but I also think this would be even easier if I’d just made a galette.

Anyways, I’m in love. These were soooooo tasty and pretty easy. Will absolutely do again and any time onions are on sale because man it took like 6 big yellow onions to make 12 muffin tin size tarts plus 12 minis. 😭

May your holidays be full of delicious onion treats!!