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Cream Cheese Dessert Cheese Ball

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This is the basic recipe for dessert cream cheese balls. See the note below for suggestions on variations.

I’ve been making these for several years now. They are my most requested recipes.

Ingredients

  • FOR THE BASIC CHEESE BALL:
  • ½ cups Butter, Softened (No Substitutes)
  • 8 ounces, weight Cream Cheese, Softened
  • 2 Tablespoons Light Brown Sugar
  • ½ teaspoons Vanilla Extract
  • ¾ cups Confectioners Sugar
  • _____
  • FOR VARIATIONS:
  • 1 cup Any Crushed Or Chopped Ingredient, To Roll The Cheese Ball In
  • ¾ cups Fruit, Well Drained (So Far I've Only Used Crushed Pineapple)
  • ¾ cups Any Candy, Cookie Chunks Or Nuts

Preparation

Using a mixer, cream together butter and cream cheese. Add sugars and vanilla mix well. Add your desired mix-ins (see suggestions below). Form into a ball. Then roll on the crumb or nut mixture and place on a waxed-paper-lined plate.

Cover loosely with plastic wrap. Refrigerate 1 hour. Serve on graham crackers or small cookies.

Note:
Here is the list of the different variations you can make. Please note I’ve only made a couple of fruit ones. Fruit must be well drained.

Let your imagination go wild! I look forward to seeing your personal creations.

Each is for 1 ball. Recipe may be multiplied for gift giving.

Variations:
1. Mint chocolate chip or mint Andes candies: roll in crushed chocolate wafers or Thin Mint cookies.
2. Reese’s Pieces, Butterfinger, Reese’s Cups: roll in crushed peanut butter cookies.
3. Oreo chunks: roll in crushed Oreos.
4. Milano chunks: roll in crushed Milano.
5. Snickers, Milky Way, 3 Musketeers, Nestle Crunch: roll in chocolate wafers.
6. Mounds and Almond Joy: roll in a combined mixture of crushed chocolate wafers and shredded coconut, or roll in crushed macaroon cookies.
7. Chocolate chip, mini chocolate chips, mini baking m&ms: roll in crushed chocolate chip cookies.
8. Toffee bits: roll in crushed macaroon cookies or crushed chocolate wafers.
9. Pineapple: mix in well drained crushed pineapple, then roll in crushed macaroons and chopped macadamia nuts.
10. Pecan sandie chunks: roll in chopped pecans.

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ibmzlorinsc01 on 8.25.2010

im sorry i havent got back before now . the mix ins are the candies the chunks of cookies or fruit and then you roll it on crushed cookies or nuts. that was to give a basic idea of some of the varieties that can be done.

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divamomma on 8.18.2010

I am confused…What are the mix- ins? Are the suggestions you listed for rolling the balls in or for mixing in with the cream cheese?

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teag98 on 7.31.2011

This was really tasty, but there was no way to make it into a ball…it was a dip for me! I double checked the recipe, because I thought I must have made a mistake, but I followed it to the letter so I’m not sure what went wrong. But it was still very good, thanks for sharing!!

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