Cheese Ball Pick-Ups

Submitted by loof751

"Great party appetizer for a large crowd..."

 

• Ready In: 1hr
• Ingredients: 10
• Yields: 7 dozen
• Serves: 15-30

ingredients

• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
• 1 (4 ounce) package blue cheese
• 1 (5 ounce) jar old english cheddar cheese
• 1 (6 ounce) package smoked cheese
• 1 garlic clove
• 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
• 1⁄4 teaspoon hot sauce
• 1 cup chopped parsley
• 1 cup pecans, finely chopped
• 1 (10 ounce) bag pretzel sticks

directions

1. Bring cheeses to room temperature. Blend all cheeses well. Crush garlic and add to cheese mixture. Add Worcestershire sauce and hot sauce and mix well.
2. Add 1/3 cup parsley and 1/2 cup chopped pecans to cheese mixture and blend well. Chill until easy to handle.
3. Mix remaining parsley and pecans together.
4. Roll cheese into balls that are about 1 inch in diameter. Roll each ball in the parsley/nut mixture. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
5. Insert a pretzel stick into each cheese ball just before serving.

Reviews

[Sydney Mike]

Made this for a neighborhood potluck several days ago, & although I admit to not even tasting it, I must admit that it got many, many raves, based mostly on the combo of cheeses, I'm told! I'm not big on either blue or smoked cheese, but that's just me, & almost everyone else totally loved these! [Tagged & made in Please Review My Recipe]

 

[weekend cooker]

Other than omitting the hot sauce, made as written, great late night snack, after dinner, made mine a little bigger, and ended up with 20. GREAT APPETIZER. Made for your win in FootballPool..

 

[bluemoon downunder]

These looked and tasted sensational - and disappeared super-fast at the pre-Christmas party I took them to. I reduced the amount of hot sauce and worcestershire sauce - so that I could at least sample some: zero tolerance of anything hot - and I increased the garlic to three cloves (minced) and added some of my favourite herbs, namely a rosemary and sage blend I've been using in a lot of recipes and thyme. Thanks for sharing this recipe, loof. Made for PRMR.

 

[Kittencalrecipezazz]

very good I omitted the smoked cheese and added in a half of 8-ounce package cream cheese instead along with the 8-ounce, increased the hot sauce, I'm going to give it another go using the smoked cheese next time, I'm certain this will be a winner at my get togethers at holiday season, thanks for posting loof!