Cheesy Sesame Phyllo Bites

These are delicious, light and delightful as a little snack while sipping (Scotch comes to mind) or as part of a cocktail party spread. Cutting the composed cracker before baking was a little tricky. Here's what I found worked: I used two cookie sheets, preparing one while the other one was baking; for each cracker I used four layers, not three of phyllo. Following the rest of the directions about butter and egg whites...I folded each phyllo sheet, using two whole sheets to make four layers on each cookie sheet, making a smaller cracker on a cookie sheet, but thereby leaving room to use the pizza cutter (wheel type). By centering the cracker on the cookie sheet there was plenty of room to cut the cracker without losing the toppings. In my oven eight and a half minutes was perfect for achieving golden toasty crackers.

• menavas

• Oakland

• 12/23/2016

I brought these to a small dinner party last night and every last bite was eaten. Everyone loved them, including the children. I followed the directions as written and will definitely make them again, probably today!

• lindald

• San Francisco, cA

• 12/25/2016

These are good. However, use more butter than you think you need to while spreading on the dough and adhere stronger than "gently" as it instructs. Much of my bottom layer didn't stick. Epicurious only lets me pick yes or no if I'd make these again, real answer is maybe.

• velo_city

• St. Louis

• 12/26/2016

This was too much work for a tasty, but nothing special cracker. I too had trouble with the bottom layer falling off, despite A LOT of butter. Even with other reviewer's tips, I am not tempted to try again.

• Anonymous

• New York

• 12/31/2016

The amount of effort was worth the outcome, made the whole batch for Christmas and it was all eaten down to the last square. A little tricky to cut the finalized product, but with a little patience and common sense, you can do it!

• adelka

• 1/28/2017

I made this exactly as written, except I only had white sesame seeds. I took this to a ladies night and everyone raved. They thought they were store bought and couldn't believe they were homemade. Like that popcorn mix from that Big Bulk Store, these were labeled as 'crack.' I didn't eat very many of them since I'm not a big fan of sesame, but I think the opinions of 15 women do count. Also: Don't grate your cheese ahead of time. I microplaned it into a measuring cup to get the exact amount and by the time I was ready to use the cheese, it had turned into an unsprikle-able ball. Grate your cheese directly onto the assembled phyllo.

• lauchlen

• 3/2/2018

Used the recipe more as a suggestion. More layers of phyllo and forgot to cut them- oops. Did two batches, one stuck together while the other bottom layer completely fell off. Nice if your baklava recipe does not use the whole page of dough. Snackable but best consumed day of.

• Zozosmitty

• Bennington, VT

• 1/17/2021