Enjoy these fruit shaped cheese ball dip – perfect to serve with crackers.
Fruit-Shaped Cheese Balls
- Prep Time 30 min
- Total 8 hr 30 min
- Servings 12
- Ingredients 12
Ingredients
- 4 ounces blue cheese, crumbled (2/3 cup)
- 1 container (8 ounces) sharp Cheddar cold-pack cheese food
- 2 packages (3 ounces each) cream cheese, softened
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- Paprika
- 1/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 4 drops yellow food color, if desired
- 1 stick cinnamon
- Lemon leaf
- Vegetable oil
- Brown paper
- Crackers, if desired
Instructions
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Step1Mix blue cheese, cheese spread, cream cheese and Worcestershire sauce in medium bowl with fork until blended. Cover and refrigerate at least 8 hours until chilled.
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Step2Divide cheese mixture in half. Shape 1 half into a ball on waxed paper. Sprinkle another piece of waxed paper with paprika. Roll cheese ball in paprika, coating completely. Mold into apple shape.
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Step3Shape other half of cheese mixture into a ball on waxed paper. Shake Parmesan cheese and food color in covered container until cheese is evenly colored. Sprinkle another piece of waxed paper with cheese. Roll cheese ball in Parmesan cheese, coating completely. Mold into pear shape.
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Step4Make small depression in apple and pear for stem ends. Cut 2 small pieces from cinnamon stick. Insert cinnamon stick pieces for apple and pear stems. Insert lemon leaf in apple. Brush oil over small piece of brown paper; cut into leaf shape. Insert leaf in pear. Serve with crackers.
Nutrition
85
Calories
7g
Total Fat
4g
Protein
1g
Total Carbohydrate
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 85
- Calories from Fat
- 65
- Total Fat
- 7g
- Saturated Fat
- 4g
- Cholesterol
- 20mg
- Sodium
- 300mg
- Total Carbohydrate
- 1g
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- Protein
- 4g
% Daily Value*:
- Iron
- 0%
- 0%
Exchanges:
1 Fat;Tips from the Betty Crocker Kitchens
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