CARAMELIZED BRIE

      Title: CARAMELIZED BRIE
  Categories: Miamiherald, Appetizers
       Yield: 16 -20 serve
  
            Vegetable oil spray
       2    11 oz refrigerated French
            -bread (spiral can)
       2    Very cold rounds of Brie
            (8-10oz ea)
     1/2 c  Chopped pecans
       2 tb Brown sugar
  
   Heat oven to 350 degrees F.  Spray 3-quart gratin pan, large tart
   pan, or baking sheet with vegetable oil. Place cheeses in pan with
   with 1 to 2 inches between them. Open cans of bread dough. Stretch 1
   loaf of dough in ring around 1 cheese, twisting in spiral as you go.
   Press seams together. Repeat with other cheese. With scissors, snip
   1-inch-deep incisions with daugh at 2-ich intervals. Sprinkle pecans
   on top of cheese, the top with brown sugar. Bake 30 minutes. Cool 20
   to 30 minutes. Slice in wedges to serve.
   
   Nutritional info per serving: 233 cal; 10g pro, 22g carb, 12g fat
   (45%), 1.1g fiber, 28mg chol, 393mg sod
   
   Source: Miami Herald, 9/21/95 Format: Lisa Crawford, 8/10/96
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