Creating a fun appetizer for Thanksgiving or a holiday party can sometime be a chore, so hopefully this Bacon and Mixed Nuts Cheese Ball recipe will come to the rescue! This starter is cheesy, flavorful and delicious! This is the recipe that I recommend, but you can omit ingredients if you want it to be vegetarian (remove the bacon) or don’t care for something.

Ingredients:
16 oz cream cheese (room temperature)
3/4 cup shredded Sharp Cheddar cheese
1/4 cup chopped Portabella mushrooms
1/4 cup chopped red bell pepper
1/4 cup finely chopped kale
3 Tbsp chopped green onion
2 Tbsp unsalted butter (room temperature)
1 pound crumbled crisp bacon
1 cup chopped mixed nuts
1 clove garlic (minced)
1 /3 tsp fresh cracked black pepper

Cook your bacon until crispy and place it on a wire rack lined with paper towels to absorb the excess grease. Set aside for later. Toast the whole mixed nuts in a medium skillet. Be sure to move the nuts around while toasting to make sure that they don’t burn. Now turn back to your bacon and crumble it all up in a bowl. In a food processor, add the toasted mixed nuts, crispy bacon crumbles and garlic. Pulse until you have combined ingredients and nuts are still slightly chunky. Set this aside.

Using a medium size bowl add your mushrooms, red bell pepper, kale and green onion and mix well. In a separate large bowl, add room temperature cream cheese, butter and shredded cheddar cheese. Put on a pair of latex gloves and mix well until ingredients are incorporated. (You can use a spoon or a small whisk, but it’s much easier to mix with your hands.) Add your mushroom, pepper, kale and onion mixture to your cheese mixture and mix well. Form this mixture into a ball.

Add the processed toasted nuts, bacon and garlic mixture to a large bowl. Set the cheese ball into the bowl with the nut mixture and begin covering the cheese ball with your nut mixture. Press nut mixture gently into cheese ball. When the cheese ball is completely covered with the nut mixture, transfer it to a serving dish and refrigerate until you are ready to serve. Remove the cheese ball before you are ready to serve and allow the cheese ball to reach room temperature. Serve with veggies like celery and carrot sticks or crackers and pretzels! Enjoy!

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Bacon And Mixed Nuts Cheese Ball

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Bacon And Mixed Nuts Cheese Ball Recipe

Ingredients

• 16 oz cream cheese (room temperature)
• 3/4 cup shredded Sharp Cheddar cheese
• 1/4 cup chopped Portabella mushrooms
• 1/4 cup chopped red bell pepper
• 1/4 cup finely chopped kale
• 3 Tbsp chopped green onion
• 2 Tbsp unsalted butter (room temperature)
• 1 pound crumbled crisp bacon
• 1 cup chopped mixed nuts
• 1 clove garlic (minced)
• 1 /3 tsp fresh cracked black pepper

Instructions

1. Cook bacon until crispy. Place bacon on a wire rack lined with paper towel to absorb excess grease. Set aside.
2. Toast whole mixed nuts in a medium skillet and set aside. Stir around while toasting to prevent burns.
3. In a food processor, add toasted mixed nuts, crispy bacon and garlic. Pulse until you have combined ingredients and nuts are still slightly chunky. Set aside.
4. Using a medium sized bowl, add mushrooms, red bell pepper, kale and green onion and mix well. Set aside.
5. In a large bowl, add room temperature cream cheese, butter and shredded cheddar cheese. Put on a pair of latex gloves and mix well until ingredients are incorporated.
6. Add mushroom and veggie mixture to cheese mixture, mix well.
7. Form cheese mixture into a ball.
8. Add processed toasted nuts, bacon and garlic mixture to a large bowl. Set cheese ball into the bowl with the nut mixture and begin covering cheese ball with nut mixture. Press nut mixture gently into cheese ball. When cheese ball is completely covered with nut mixture, transfer to a serving dish and refrigerate until you are ready to serve.
9. Remove before your ready to serve and allow the cheese ball to reach room temperature.
10. Serve.

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