mini cheese balls recipe

Mini Cheese Balls are studded with dried cranberries and blue cheese, rolled in toasted pecans, and skewered with pretzel sticks for a fun and easy party appetizer!

Mini Cheese Balls

cream cheese (at room temperature)

(about 3 ounces) blue cheese crumbles

cranberries (finely chopped)

pecan halves

pretzel sticks

dried cranberry

pretzel stick

In a medium bowl, beat together cream cheese, blue cheese, and dried cranberries until smooth. Dampen hands to prevent sticking and form cream cheese mixture into approximately 24 tablespoon-sized balls. Cover and refrigerate for at least two hours or until firm.

In the meantime, toast the pecans by spreading out on a sheet pan and baking in a preheated 350°F oven until lightly toasted and fragrant, for 7 to 10 minutes. Allow pecans to cool and finely chop them.

Roll the chilled cheese balls in the chopped pecans, pressing in the nuts so that they adhere. Keep the cheese balls refrigerated until ready to serve. Just before serving, skewer each cheese ball with a pretzel stick.

The perfect littles bites for any party and always the first to go! YUM!

So creative! I love the idea and the awesome flavors you put in there...yummy!

I absolutely love this recipe and your pictures.  A great idea for salad toppers too.  Thanks.

These were perfection!! A wonderful dish to bring to a holiday party.

These mini cheese balls were insanely good! This recipe will definitely not go unnoticed at any event.

What a fun appetizer! Loved all the flavor combinations in this, although I switched out the blue cheese for feta bc I'm not a fan. Great recipe!

Your cheese balls were so yummy and easy too.

These are even better than I could have imagined-- and I have thought about making them for the last year, since you posted them. I bought stuff to make these last year, then time got away from me, and I used the ingredients for something else.  But, I made them today for a gathering,  and they are such a remarkable combination of ingredients and got huge "Wows!!!!" from my foody guests.  It won't be another year before I do them again, and I promise to give you full credit.  Thank you Samantha!

How brilliant! I love the balls on the pretzels! So cute and easy for a party!

love them! i add hint of cayenne pepper, black pepper and garlic salt to the cream cheese! adds a lil color and spice

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