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Blue Cheese Balls couldn’t be simpler to make with blue cheese and cream cheese then coated in dried fruit and nuts. This savory and creamy appetizer is great for holiday parties, entertaining, and ...

The cheese ball is a cliché. I believe, however, that like the pig in a blanket and the baked potato, the cheese ball is so cliched it has actually become cool. Socially acceptable or not, when this ...

Here's a Halloween party dish that doubles as a decoration! We took a classic cheese ball recipe and gussied it up into a fun, festive, Halloween cocktail party centerpiece. With a cheese hat and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image released by Voracious shows a cheese ball recipe from the cookbook "Deep Run Roots: Stories and Recipes from My Corner ...