Perfect Party Roasted Garlic and Hot Cheese Appetizer

I was watching BBC and the fabulous Lorraine Pascale's segment was on - she was making a hot Camembert and roasted garlic dish that looked phenomenal.

So I gave it a try and switched up the recipe just a little by removing the bay leaves, salt & pepper and butter and cutting down the amount of oil.

This roasted garlic, rosemary, honey and hot cheese combo will have your guests at hello.
Martha would be proud of this little recipe.

What You'll Need:

• Small corningware container - about the size of your wheel of cheese
• Two whole cloves of fresh garlic
• 2 Tbsp your favourite liquid honey
• 2 long sprigs of fresh rosemary
• 1/4 cup of your favourite olive oil (don't cheap out here, use your good stuff)
• 1 fresh French baguette to serve (or crackers...though a fresh loaf of bread is so much more satisfying)
• 1 small wheel of your favourite Camembert (Brie works well, too. Any cheese that has a rind and is gooey will work wonders). If you use a large wheel of cheese, just double the above ingredients and use larger corningware!

What You' ll Do: The Roasted Garlic, Rosemary and Honey topping

• Pre-heat your oven to 350 (175F)
• Peel your fresh garlic and slice off both ends
• Place the cloves, 'face' down into one of your small corningware dishes
• Pour your olive oil over the top
• Drizzle your honey all over
• Cut your rosemary sprigs in half and stuff in-between your garlic cloves
• Bake for 45 minutes

What You'll Do: The Cheese of Choice

• Take your wheel of cheese (Camembert is what I used, but Brie is also nice)
• Peel off the paper and remove any packaging - not the rind though - that stays on!
• Plop into your other corningware container
• With a sharp knife, cut an 'X' shape into the cheese. This is so the ooey-gooey cheese can mush out and get all deliciously messy. Plus this allots you a 'cheese portal' wherein you can insert some of the roasted garlic mixture, once baked. Mmmmm...cheese portal...

• Bake for 30 minutes (so, once the roasted garlic topping has been in the oven for 15 minutes, pop this in with it so both will finish at the same time)
• While baking - take your fresh loaf of French bread and break or cut into slices
• Remove both the roasted garlic topper and the cheese from the oven
• Without letting either cool, spoon the roasted garlic topper into the melted cheese
•  Spoon the cheese and topping onto your bread and enjoy

The STEWART SCORE:
Appearance: 2
Taste: 2+ (this is my new favourite dinner party/appetizer recipe)
Ease: 2