Dress up cream cheese with chipotle chiles and apricot preserves in an impressive appetizer that goes from start to finish in just 15 minutes.
Apricot-Chipotle-Cream Cheese Star
- Prep Time 15 min
- Total 15 min
- Servings 16
- Ingredients 9
Ingredients
- 12 oz cream cheese (from two 8-oz packages), softened
- 1 cup shredded sharp white Cheddar cheese (4 oz)
- 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
- 1/2 teaspoon ground mustard
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans
- 1/2 cup apricot preserves
- 2 teaspoons finely chopped gingerroot
- 2 teaspoons chopped chipotle chiles in adobo sauce (from 7-oz can)
- 48 crackers
Instructions
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Step1In food processor, place cream cheese, Cheddar cheese, onion powder and mustard. Cover; process, scraping side of bowl if necessary, until well mixed. Add pecans. Cover; process with on-and-off pulses 2 or 3 times until mixed.
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Step2Using parchment paper, cut out a star shape 7 inches in diameter. Spoon the cheese spread evenly onto the shape, using a table knife to shape the star. Turn onto a serving plate; remove the parchment paper.
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Step3In small bowl, mix preserves, gingerroot and chiles. Spoon over cheese star. Serve with crackers.
Nutrition
200
Calories
15g
Total Fat
4g
Protein
14g
Total Carbohydrate
6g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 200
- Calories from Fat
- 130
- Total Fat
- 15g
- 22%
- Saturated Fat
- 7g
- 34%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 30mg
- 10%
- Sodium
- 190mg
- 8%
- Potassium
- 65mg
- 2%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 14g
- 5%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 6g
- Protein
- 4g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 8%
- 8%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 6%
- 6%
- Iron
- 4%
- 4%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 3 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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