Honey Roasted Almond Cherry Cheese Ball Recipe | Cream Cheese Balls

Serve this festive Cherry Cheese Ball recipe with mini toast points or small crackers. Honey roasted sliced almonds are used more often in salads and can be found in packages in the produce or salad section of the grocery store.

Cream Cheese Ball Appetizers 

My mother-in-law was the proprietor of a cheese and gourmet food store in Connecticut.  I used to work the store between Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years helping to make cheese balls.  We'd chop the walnuts using an old food grinder!

Try substituting dried cranberries in this cream cheese ball for Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Year's parties. You can also use Neufchâtel cheese in place of cream cheese. Maybe even make it out of your favorite softened cheese spread.

 
Be sure to check out some other delicious recipe for cheese balls and dips for entertaining throughout the year. This cheese ball most certainly deserves placement on your charcuterie board !

Try these other Cheese Balls for your party guests - 
Red Devil Cheese Ball
Pineapple Cream Cheese Ball

Clean-up is easy with my crochet Handmade Dish Cloths from my shop at Moomettes Crochet !

Cream Cheese Ball

1 (8 oz) pkg. cream cheese, room temperature
1 C Muenster cheese, shredded
1 C white Cheddar cheese, shredded
2 T cherry liqueur or extract
1 C frozen dark sweet cherries, thawed, drained and divided
1/3 C honey roasted almonds, sliced and divided


Place the cream cheese, Muenster cheese and Cheddar cheese in a food processor
Pour in the liqueur and process until smooth.
Remove to a large mixing bowl with a rubber spatula.
Chop 3/4 C of the cherries.
Stir the cherries and all but 2 T of the almonds into the cheese mixture being sure to combine them well.
The cheese mixture will have a pink tint after the cherries are mixed in.
Line a 3 C size bowl with cheese cloth.
Place the cheese into the lined bowl and form to fit the bowl.
Cover the bowl and refrigerate until the cheese has firmed.
Unmold the cheese onto a serving plate.
Garnish the top of the cheese ball with the remaining cherries, cut in halves and the remaining 2 T of almonds.

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Cherry Nut Chocolate Cake Recipe | Quick Bread Mix

I’d like to share this easy chocolate Cherry Loaf cake that’s created with ~~ A Quick Bread Mix! This is also an easy recipe to have the kids help get involved with. Not quite a bread, not really a fruitcake, it’s really more of a dessert cake when finished – and is so simple to put together your friends & relatives will think you’re a genius!

Add some festive decorations; use your own favorite Frosting or Ganache recipe; serve with your favorite Party Beverage & you’re good to go!

Not just for Christmas, make this for Thanksgiving or your next family party, get-together with friends, holiday parties or even summer picnics on the deck!

Easy Quick Bread Desserts Hacks

Holiday Party Invitations and Save the Dates should either be in the mail by now, or at least be written!

For me, one of the best ways to savor the Holidays and create Traditions is through taste and smell. At this time of year I love to keep a few things ahead in the freezer to bring when we visit! It’s great to have a ‘little something good to eat’ ready for visits to friends, elderly or shut-ins. Also – last minute party invites!

This Cream Cheese Nibble Bread adapted and made from a quick bread mix is also great to bring to parties, or serve when guests stop over!


Some of my favorite recipes were culled over the years from my co-workers at the various offices I worked in. Although I may have changed jobs, or my friends have retired, when I recreate the recipes they’ve shared, it enables me to remember them fondly! This recipe is from Teddi, who I enjoyed working with for over 15 years!

Easy clean up in the kitchen with Handmade Dish Cloths from Moomettes Crochet !

Cherry Nut Chocolate Cake 

1 pkg. Pillsbury Nut or Date Quick Bread Mix (or box mix of your choice)
1 c. coarsely chopped pecans or walnuts (optional)
1 (10 oz) jar maraschino cherries, drained, cut in
half
3/4 c. Miniature semi-sweet chocolate chips
3/4 c. water
1/4 c. kirsch (cherry flavored) or 2 tsp almond
extract plus 1/4 tsp
c. water
1 tbl oil
1 egg

Glaze
1/4 c. Miniature semi-sweet chocolate chips
2 tsp oil

Heat oven to 350. Grease and flour bottom of 8×4 or 9×5 loaf pan. In large bowl, combine all fruitcake ingredients. Stir by hand until mixture is moist. Pour into prepared pan. Bake at 350 for 65 to 80 min. for 8×4 pan, 60 to 70 min. for 9×5 pan or until toothpick is clean. Cool 15 min. Remove from pan. Cool completely. In small sauce pan over low heat, melt chocolate chips and oil, stirring until smooth. Drizzle over cake. Allow glaze to set in refrigerator. Wrap well in plastic wrap or foil and store in refrigerator up to 2 weeks or freeze up to 3 months. For optimum flavor refrigerate at least 24 hrs before serving.

Another great way at this time of year to pass on traditions to your children or grandchildren is to bake or cook a favorite dish that a family member used to prepare. Food is a wonderful way to recall happy times and gatherings.

In my next post, I’ll be sharing some great recipes from family members who are no longer with us physically, but always in our hearts. Enjoy the Season! 

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