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Pumpkin Cheese Ball

This adorable take on a pumpkin-shaped cheese ball gets its bright orange coloring from ground-up cheese puffs and its stem from a bell pepper.

Ingredients

  • 3 cups orange cheese puffs
  • 2 pounds cream cheese, at room temperature
  • 3 cups shredded Cheddar
  • 1/4 cup chopped chives
  • Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 1 bell pepper with a long stem
  • Crackers, for serving

Direction

  1. Put the cheese puffs in a food processor and process until finely ground. Transfer to a rimmed baking sheet.
  2. Combine the cream cheese, Cheddar, chives, 1 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper in a large bowl and mix to combine. Mold the mixture into a ball, pressing the top of the ball with your hand to flatten it. With the tip of a butter knife, carve lines down the sides to resemble a pumpkin. 
  3. Roll the cheese ball in the ground cheese puffs. Remove the entire bell pepper stem with a paring knife and put it on top of the cheeseball as the pumpkin stem. Seed and slice the bell pepper. Serve the cheeseball on a plate with crackers and slices of bell pepper.