Cheese Ball Appetizer

With Almonds and Bacon

This Cheese Ball Appetizer has a wonderful flavor combination of cream cheese, bacon, onions and dill. You can serve this delicious appetizer with crackers, pita chips and big corn chips.

This is an easy cheese ball recipe to make. If your guests like a bit of spice in their cheese balls, then you can add a couple teaspoons of your favorite hot sauce to this recipe. It can be made a day or two before and kept covered in the refrigerator until needed.

If you are making the Cheese Ball ahead of time, then take it out of the refrigerator 45 minutes before you serve it so that it will be soft enough to spread.

Cheese Ball Recipe

Ingredients:

5 - slices bacon
1 1/2 - cups chopped almonds
8 - ounces cream cheese
1/2 - cup mayonnaise
1 - tablespoon chopped green onions
1/2 - teaspoon dried dill weed
Pinch of freshly ground black pepper

Preparation:

Cook bacon until it is crispy. Let cool them crumble into small pieces. (See bacon cooking tip.)
In a bowl, mix together softened cream cheese, mayonnaise, green onions, dill weed, and black pepper until well blended.
Form mixture into ball shape.
Spread the Almonds on a piece of wax paper and roll the cheese ball over them until it is covered with them.
Place the cheese ball on a serving tray.

Bacon Cooking Tip:

Cooking bacon is easier and faster in the microwave. We use a bacon cooking tray made especially for the microwave. Cooking time for the bacon will depend on your microwave and how many strips of bacon you cook at one time. Experiment with 1 minute per slice and check to see how crispy they are.
Also: Put a paper towel over the bacon when cooking it, this will help absorb some of the grease and stop it from spattering all over the microwave. After cooking 3 or 4 trays, check the grease level in the cooking tray and pour into an empty jar or can with a tight lid.

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