Turkey Cheese Ball
An adorable and perfect appetizer for your Thanksgiving celebration. A cheese ball made of cheddar cheese spread , cream cheese and dried minced onion combined together to make a little ball of yumminess which is adorned with fresh veggies and pretzels to look like a festive little turkey! Make this the center piece for your next Turkey Day!
Equipment
- 1 Piece Parchment or waxed paper
Ingredients
- 1 8 oz Cream Cheese Softened
- 1 8 oz Cheddar Cheese Spread - alittle over half of 12 oz container - Softened i use Merkts Sharp Cheddar
- 2 TB Dried Minced Onion
- 1/2 TB Worcestershire Sauce
Turkey Feathers
- 3 TB Sliced Almonds About 1/2 the bag
- 4 Stalks Celery cut in half lengthwise
- 6-8 Baby Carrots or regular carrots cut a bit smaller than celery
- 10 Pretzel Sticks
- 1 Small Pc Red Pepper cut in small strip to look like turkey wattle
- 1 Cherry Tomato for Turkey Head
- 2 Cloves for the eyes
Garnish
- 1 Sleeve Ritz Crackers or any of your choice
Instructions
- Put softened cream cheese and cheddar cheese spread on parchment
- Add minced onions and splash of worcestershire sauce
- Mix thoroughly and form into ball
- Starting at middle of bottom push sliced almonds around the base to resemble feathers. Keep going around and up in tile fashion till you're almost at the top.
- Put cloves in cherry tomato for eyes and put on a toothpick and stick into top front of cheese ball to look like the head
- Take small slice of red pepper and put on toothpick and stick under the head to look like the turkey's wattle
- Starting at the back of the cheese ball insert your celery as the tallest then add carrots a little smaller then add he pretzels so it graduates in height to resemble the large tail feathers of your turkey
- Surround your turkey cheese ball with crackers
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