How to Make Crispy Baked Cream Cheese Rangoons

How to Make Crispy Baked Cream Cheese Rangoons, these are golden brown bites of melty cream cheese, jalapeno, and seasonings! These come together in just about 20 minutes and they make the perfect appetizer or finger food for any gathering. Serve with your favorite dipping sauce like sweet chili or soy sauce. Easily customize these to your liking by adding different spices and fillings!

Highlights of these crispy oven baked cream cheese wontons and why you’ll love them:

Delicious filling: the filling for these is so simple and tasty, flavored with soy sauce, rice vinegar, and sriracha for a little heat. Feel free to get creative and add other flavorings.

Just simple ingredients: all you need for these Rangoon’s is cream cheese, jalapenos, rice wine vinegar, soy sauce, sriracha, salt, pepper, garlic powder, wonton wrappers, and avocado or olive oil for coating.

Crowd favorite: these are the perfect bite with a hint of spice and the perfect crunch. They look so elegant as part of a tablescape or as the main appetizer. Serve on a platter garnished with sesame seeds and fresh herbs with your favorite dipping sauces.

Rangoon’s can be folded however you desire: I like these folded into the center to create little pillows but they can also be folded in half to form simple triangles.

Great finger food: These are the perfect 1 or 2 bite snack, making them great for parties or casual gatherings.

Oven-fried: These are baked so there is no mess of frying in oil and they can easily be made in batches and you don’t have to worry about hot oil or the Rangoon’s burning. Plus you’re saving some calories! Oven fry these in avocado oil or olive oil, you could also use olive oil spray.

Just like a traditional crab rangoon, these are filled with a cream cheese mixture and baked until golden brown. You could also add in imitation crab or shrimp for a mix of flavors. These take less oil since there is no deep frying, making them a bit lighter!

Grocery Store List & Substitutions for the wontons:

• Cream cheese: can substitute vegan cream cheese as needed. Full fat cream cheese is my preference, but low fat cream cheese can be used as well.
• Soy sauce: can be substitute for coconut aminos or tamari if needed. Coconut aminos is slightly thicker and has a sweeter taste than soy sauce, so I often prefer it more.
• Jalapenos: i love adding fresh jalapenos for a bit of texture and spice. Pickled jalapenos can be a substitute in a pinch.
• Sesame oil, canola oil, peanut oil or avocado oil: I use avocado oil for brushing my wontons but any high heat oil will work or use cooking spray.
• Kosher salt: any sea salt or Himalayan salt will work!
• Fresh cracked black pepper: can be optional, add a bit more flavor.
• Garlic powder: can substitute onion powder or fresh garlic cloves. I like a lot of garlic flavor so I add extra.
• Wonton wrappers: most grocery stores have these in the produce section, near fresh herbs and minced garlic/ginger. If not, local Asian stores will carry them. You will not need the whole pack, any leftover can be stored in the freezer. If all you can find is egg roll wrappers, you can use them and roll them into egg roll, you just wont get as many.
• Dipping sauce: I like sweet and sour sauce, duck sauce, any hot sauce, Thai sweet chili sauce, or just plain soy sauce!

How to Make Crispy Baked Cream Cheese Rangoons (with step by step instructions):

Let’s talk a little about how to make these crispy wontons (The printable instructions are in the recipe card below.)

Quick overview:

• Prepare cream cheese mixture.
• Fill and fold wontons.
• Brush with oil.
• Bake until crisp and enjoy.

1: Combine cream cheese, soy sauce, rice vinegar, jalapeno, sriracha, and seasonings in a medium bowl.

2. Add about a tablespoon of filling to the center of a wonton wrapper. Use your finger to wet all edges with water. Fold all four corners together towards the center and pinch to seal each corner of the wonton. Repeat will the remaining filling.

3. Once all wontons have been filled, place wontons on a sheet pan and brush with oil or spray with cooking spray. This helps to get the wontons nice and crispy in the oven.

4. I like to sprinkle them with sesame seeds before baking for a fun addition.

5. Bake at 400 degrees F for 14-16 minutes, until the wontons are nice and crispy and golden brown. Serve immediately with your favorite dipping sauces.

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Variations & Serving Ideas for the cream cheese wonton recipe:

• Serve as an appetizer or as part of a main meal. These good great with other small bites like Baked Brie Crostini with Prosciutto and Jalapeno Pepper Jelly, Quick and Easy Instant Pot Cocktail Meatballs Recipe, or Birds Eye Frozen Cauliflower Wings in the Air Fryer.
• Mix in crab meat for extra flavor.
• Air fry instead of baking, this process would be very similar (instructions below).
• Fold into different shapes, like triangles.
• Deep fry in oil for super crispy wontons – to deep fry use a neutral oil such as canola oil or vegetable oil.
• Serve topped with sliced green onions, sesame seeds, and sliced jalapenos.

These are so mild and delicious, they would be perfect for football season or a game night at home!

Tools I used for the cheese wontons:

Pyrex Mixing Bowl Set – I love this set of nesting bowls. I use them for everything, Pyrex glass does not break easily so you can trust on these bowls for years, plus they come in 3 useful sizes and can be stacked!

Tongs – a must have kitchen tool!

USA Pan Half Sheet Pan – my go-to baking sheets, these are truly non-stick and clean up nicely.

Rubber Spatula – a must have! Easily combine the cheese mixture with a rubber spatula. I like these because they don’t come apart so I don’t have to worry about water getting inside the spatula and causing mold.

Recipe FAQs:

What should I serve my cream cheese wontons with?

These make a great appetizer for any weeknight take-out inspired meal. Such as Air Fryer Teriyaki Chicken Recipe, Easy Instant Pot Teriyaki Meatballs Recipe, Easy Crispy Air Fryer Sesame Chicken Recipe, orSesame Ginger Orange Chicken Salad!

What is the difference between wontons and Rangoons?

Cream cheese rangoon is a type of fried wonton, so they are really very similar. The difference is all in the filling. Traditional wontons are not filled with cream cheese (which is one of the main components in these cream cheese rangoons).

Is a cheese Rangoon similar to a crab Rangoon?

Crab Rangoon’s are filled crisp dumpling appetizers served primarily in American Chinese restaurants. These cream cheese Rangoon’s are identical except they are made with only cream cheese, not crab.

Can these be air fried?

Yes! Start by preheating your air fryer to 400 degrees F. Secondly, spray the basket and Rangoon’s with cooking spray, arrange in a single layer in the air fryer and air fry for 15-18 minutes until golden brown and crispy, flipping halfway through. Enjoy immediately.