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December 22, 2015 by Joy Kincaid 4 Comments

Holiday Cheese Ball | Easy to Make Just 4 Ingredients

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Easy to make holiday cheese ball with just 4 ingredients! This is a family-favorite Christmas tradition at our house!

Holiday Cheese Ball Recipe

When I was growing up, my mom used to make this festive cheese ball recipe at Christmas. She would often take it to parties and get-togethers.I kept the recipe and usually think about making it around Christmas, since that’s when I remember Mom making it.

It tastes just like home! I consider this to be one of my traditional family recipes. Now my own family enjoys it just as much as I always have.

It’s one of our favorite Christmas traditions. We love to make this on a Christmas movie night and eat it while we watch the movie.

Sometimes we’ll also make some homemade hot chocolate to go with it.

This recipe makes a great appetizer or snack for holiday get-togethers.

Whenever I’m asked to bring a snack or appetizer to a Christmas party, I always think about this holiday cheese ball recipe first.

For one thing, it’s delicious, and it always gets rave reviews (guys especially seem to love it for some reason!).

And, it just tastes delicious! You can’t go wrong with a recipe that’s this easy and also tasty.

Holiday Cheese Ball Recipe

Ingredients:

  • 8 oz. package cream cheese
  • 1/4 cup French Onion dip
  • 1/3 cup Parmesan cheese
  • 1 (2 oz.) package Buddig Original Beef deli meat
holiday cheese ball recipe
 
Directions:
  1. Place cream cheese, dip, and Parmesan cheese in a medium bowl. Cream cheeses and dip together with an electric mixer.
  2. Chop beef with blender or food processor (I use a food processor).
  3. Add about 3/4 of the beef to the cream cheese mixture and mix well.
  4. Form cheese mixture into a ball and roll in remaining beef.
  5. Place on a plate and serve with crackers.

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Holiday Cheese Ball

This easy to make holiday cheese ball just has 4 ingredients! It's a simple Christmas snack or appetizer recipe.
Course: Appetizer, Snack
Cuisine: American
Keyword: cheese ball
Author: Joy Kincaid | Artful Homemaking

Ingredients

  • 8 oz. package cream cheese
  • 1/4 cup French Onion dip
  • 1/3 cup Parmesan cheese
  • 1 (2 oz.) pkg Buddig Original Beef deli meat

Instructions

  • Place cream cheese, dip, and Parmesan cheese in a medium bowl. Cream cheeses and dip together with an electric mixer.
  • Chop beef with blender or food processor (I use a food processor).
  • Add about 3/4 of the beef to the cream cheese mixture and mix well.
  • Form cheese mixture into a ball and roll in remaining beef.
  • Place on a plate and serve with crackers.

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Comments

  1. Rebecca Payne says

    December 22, 2020 at 8:56 am

    Thank you for sharing. Merry Christmas!

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    • Joy Kincaid says

      December 30, 2020 at 3:07 pm

      You’re welcome! Hope you had a wonderful Christmas!

      Reply
  2. Erika M says

    December 23, 2015 at 11:17 pm

    Sounds yummy but now you've piqued my curiosity…what sort of hard to find ingredients did the original recipe call for? 🙂

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    • Joy Kincaid says

      December 24, 2015 at 12:52 am

      It was just smoked beef (Buddig brand used to sell this but now I can never find it in any store around here) and a packaged bacon and onion dip mix. So I took out the sour cream the original recipe called for and now I use the french onion dip since I can't find the dip mix. The taste is very similar to the original. 🙂

      Reply

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