Caramelized Garlic Cheese Spread
From mrsc543 14 years ago
- 3 minutes to make
- Serves 30
This is so cute because it looks just like a pumpkin when it is coated in crushed orange colored cracker crumbs. It has a green pepper slice for a stem! This recipe came from the Land O' Lakes website. Just a note: this does require chilling overnight.
Ingredients
- 2 tsp Land O' Lakes butter shopping list
- 2 Tbsp coarsely chopped fresh garlic shopping list
- 1 tsp sugar shopping list
- 8 oz pkg cream cheese, softened shopping list
- 1/4 cup Land O' Lakes butter, softened shopping list
- 8 oz (2 cups) Land O' Lakes sharp cheddar cheese, shredded shopping list
- 1/4 cup sliced green onion shopping list
- 1/4 tsp salt shopping list
- Coating: shopping list
- 1/2 cup finely crushed cheese-flavored bite-sized crackers shopping list
- Garnish: shopping list
- 1 medium bell pepper with stem shopping list
How to make it
- Melt 2 tsp butter in small skillet until sizzling; add garlic and sugar. Cook over medium-high heat, stirring constantly, until garlic just starts to brown (3 to 5 minutes). Immediately remove from heat.
- Combine garlic mixture and all remaining spread ingredients in a large bowl. Beat at medium speed until creamy.
- Shape cheese mixture into a pumpkin shape with hands.
- Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Place crushed crackers into a large shallow pie plate. Roll cheese ball into crackers; press evenly to coat. Place on serving dish.
- Create a stem for the top of the pumpkin from bell pepper slices.
- Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours or overnight to blend flavors. Just before serving; score vertical lines on pumpkin with knife.
- Serve with crackers and vegetables.
- Tip: Cut remaining bell pepper to serve with the cheese spread.
The Rating
Reviewed by 4 people-
Sound good!
cuzpat
in Sikeston loved it
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nice presentation on this as well as great flavor combo..five forks
peetabear
in mid-hudson valley loved it
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The perfectly flavored "Pumpkin" spread. Great idea as a party gift during the holidays. Thank you for bringing it here. High Forks & Bookmarked.
Jo & Lee
jolielives
in The Catskill Plateau loved it
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