Cheese Ball

Cheese Ball

A family Christmas tradition since the 1960s, but this appetizer is tasty at any time of the year!

2 8-oz packages cream cheese, softened

About 4 oz Blue Cheese, crumbled

1 jar Old English cheese

1 Tb dried minced onion

2 tsp Worcestershire sauce

1 cup toasted & finely chopped nuts*

Rehydrate the dried minced onion in the Worcestershire sauce for about 5 minutes. Blend cheeses with an electric mixer (easiest in a large stand mixer). Add onioin-Worcestershire sauce to the cheeses and mix to combine.

Place chopped nuts in a shallow bowl. Scoop about 1/4 of the cheese mixture at a time into the nuts and use the nuts as a coating to shape into flattened balls or log shapes. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill to firm. Serve with crackers.

*Note: Toast the nuts in a 325° F oven for 7 or 8 minutes and cool before chopping. A small food processor is the best way to chop the nuts very finely to more evenly coast the cheese balls.

Mom at the house in Nahcotta