Spooky! Delicious! Adorable!
If you're like us, you're not ready to let go of Halloween and move on to Xmas/Hanukkah yet.
Solution? Make adorably spooky and delicious snacks with this week’s themed ingredient: onions!
Here’s a fun and festive onion dip cheeseball. It's fun to look at as well as fun to eat. Also, chopping the onions gets the tears flowing...so if you need a good cry, look no further.
You'll need:
2 8-ounce packages cream cheese, at room temperature
1 1/2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese
4 tablespoons minced onions
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
½ minced garlic
3 handfulls of nacho cheese flavored chips, finely crushed
1 nice-looking stem of a bell pepper (reserve the pepper for another use)
blue corn chips, for serving and decorating
Put the cream cheese, Cheddar, onions, garlic, and cayenne pepper into the bowl of a mixer, and blend thoroughly. Form into a pumpkin-like shape, and refrigerate until firm, about 2 hours.
Before serving, roll the cheese ball in the crushed nacho flavored chip crumbs. Arrange the cheese ball on a plate, and press the bell pepper stem into the top - it should like a mini pumpkin stem.
You can serve the pumpkin as-is, or break off pieces of corn chips to form a Jack-o'-lantern face. The chip pieces should adhere to the pumpkin cheese ball if you gently press them onto it, but you can also stick them on using a very small dab of the cheese ball mixture on the back of the black bean chip features; this will act like glue.
Enjoy!! Let the season stretch on. Or...we guess these could transfer to ornaments? Santa bellies? Doesn't matter, they'll be eaten quickly. :)