Maple Mushroom Crostini

This maple mushroom crostini is the perfect appetizer or snack! Sauteed mushrooms caramelized with maple syrup and served on toasted baguette – so good!

This maple mushroom crostini is absolutely amazing! If you like mushrooms, that is.  If you don’t, you won’t like it at all.  

Although you never know – mushrooms are awesome and this may just change your mind if you think you don’t like them.  It’s that good.

Chopped cremini mushrooms (the brown button mushrooms, although white button mushrooms would work just as well here) are sautéed with some onion and garlic until they’re softened, then caramelized with maple syrup, red wine and a bit of soy sauce.  Serve them on top of toasted, thinly sliced baguette for the most amazing appetizer.

We also enjoyed some of the tasty maple mushrooms with a slice of soft havarti cheese on top of the baguette – when you add the hot mushrooms it melts into the bread and is completely divine.  

Although we couldn’t actually decide which way we liked it better, with or without cheese – I think you really need to make both!

I meant to take some photos with the cheese too, but, um….we ate it all.  In fact, we ate entirely too much of this maple mushroom crostini because it was so good and we could not make ourselves stop.  It was basically supper that night instead of the appetizer it’s meant to be.

Clearly we can’t be trusted to have this stuff around unless we have a houseful of people!

So….who wants to come over so I can make some more?

What does crostini mean?

Crostini means “little toasts” in Italian. It also refers to small slices of toasted bread, usually with a savoury topping – in this case, maple caramelized mushrooms.

here are a few more amazing mushroom appetizers to try:

• Cheesy Taco Stuffed Mushrooms
• Beef Spinach and Mushroom Strudel
• Bacon Wrapped Crab Stuffed Mushrooms
• Roasted Garlic and Mushroom Hummus