Holiday Tree-Shaped Cheese Ball

An easy, eye-catching way to serve a holiday cheese ball. The best news? You can make it up to a month in advance!

Holiday Tree-Shaped Cheese Ball

BettyCrockerRecipe by BettyCrocker

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20 minutes

4 hours 20 minutes

7 cups spread

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Nutrition Info

  • 1/4 Cup
  • 165
  • 15g
    (Saturated Fat 9g)
  • 45mg
  • 180mg
  • 1g
    (Dietary Fiber 0g)
  • 6g
  • Percent Daily Value*
  • 12%
  • 2%
  • 10%
  • 2%
  • Exchanges
  • 1 1/2
  • 1

*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

Tips & Techniques

  • Special Touch

    Place the tree in the middle of a platter covered with a cloth napkin “tree skirt,” and surround it with crackers of all shapes and sizes for the “gifts.”

  • Substitution

    A combination of fresh basil and oregano instead of the parsley or cilantro gives this tree Italian flair!

Ingredients

  • 3  packages (8 ounces each) cream cheese, softened
  • 4  cups shredded Cheddar cheese (16 ounces)
  • 2  tablespoons basil pesto
  • 1  tablespoon grated onion
  • 1/4  teaspoon yellow mustard
  • Red pepper sauce
  • 1/4  cup finely chopped parsley or cilantro
  • 1/4  cup pine nuts or sliced almonds
  • 2  tablespoons chopped red bell pepper
  • Piece of lemon peel, if desired
  • Assorted crackers, if desired

Directions

  1. 1Stir together cream cheese and Cheddar cheese; divide in half. Stir pesto into 1 half; stir onion, mustard and 2 or 3 drops pepper sauce into other half. Cover each half; refrigerate about 4 hours or until firm enough to shape.
  2. 2Place cheese mixtures on cookie sheet. Shape each half into cone shape to look like a pine tree.
  3. 3If desired, wrap each tree, label and freeze up to 1 month. Twelve hours before serving, remove trees from freezer. Thaw in wrapper in refrigerator.
  4. 4Just before serving, roll trees in parsley, pressing it evenly onto trees. Press pine nuts onto trees in string form for garland. Press bell pepper pieces onto trees for ornaments. Top each tree with star shape cut from lemon peel. Serve with crackers.

Categories: Course, Appetizers, Cold Appetizers, Healthy

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