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Cranberry Graham Cracker Cheeseball

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cranberry walnut graham cracker cheese ball
This is one of my absolute favorite cheese ball recipes! A friend of mine brought a cranberry cheese ball to a holiday party and it was so delicious that I was inspired to try and make one of my own. To come up with the recipe I just looked at the list of ingredients on the package of the cheese ball and then started experimenting. Before I had only been accustomed salty cheese balls, but now I am in love with the idea of sweet cheese balls. This Cranberry Graham Cracker Cheeseball can be served as an appetizer at your next holiday party, or even a dessert with graham crackers for dipping.  Since there are only two of us at my house ( my husband and I), once again I decided to bring my recipe to work to share with my coworkers. It was a big hit and did not last long. I decided this cooking blog thing is probably benefiting my coworkers more than anyone. They have quickly become my official taste testers 🙂

Cranberry Graham Cracker Cheeseball
 
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Recipe type: Appetizer
Ingredients
  • ½ c dried Cranberries ( Craisins)
  • 3 Tbsp frozen cranberry juice concentrate
  • ½ cup crushed Walnuts
  • Crushed Graham Cracker
  • ( crush 3-4 large squares)
  • 8 oz package Cream Cheese x 2
  • ½ c Sugar
Instructions
  1. Mix Cream cheese, sugar, dried cranberries and cranberry juice concentrate in a large mixing bowl with a hand mixer. Blend well and then take a spoon and scrape all the contents in the bowl together and form the cream cheese mixture into a ball.
  2. Pour the crushed walnuts and crushed graham cracker into the bowl and roll the ball around until it is evenly coated with graham cracker and walnuts. You can buy these already crushed or put them in zip lock bag and pound them with something hard to crush them.
  3. Let the cheese ball chill in the refrigerator for about 30-60 minutes and then serve with crackers (I think it tastes really good with wheat thins, but some of my friends preferred it with graham cracker squares.)
Notes
Tip: It may be a little hard to mold into a ball at first but once you start rolling it in the graham cracker and walnuts it will become more formed and easier to mold. I promise it will work out if you follow the directions correctly 🙂

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