Great recipe for a cheese ball. Be creative I sculpted mine into a rat and used the left over port to create a simple raspberry port sauce.. I uploaded the pic! It was a hit!
Wow this is an excellent recipe for any time of year! I used poppy seeds and served with water crackers and black grapes for our Halloween party.
This is a yummy appitizer in an awesome presentation. A few additions I made were (1) dropping a few drops of green food coloring into the food processed. (2) Throwing a few plastic bugs/snakes that I found in the toy box into the dishwasher and them positioning them around/ on the cheese ball. I even won 1st place at a Halloween party last year! Thanks for your awesome recipe and great idea!
Great taste!! I took toasted sesame seeds and soaked them in a bottle of black food coloring and some port wine. They came out almost greenish black it was absolutely amazing. I also made the recipe into 2 balls and put plain toasted sesame seeds on one so it looked very interesting on the platter with a white one and a black one!
It was runny and could not be shaped into a ball at all. I guess I should have used cream cheese.
This was a big hit at a party. I couldn't get the black sesame seeds to cover the whole ball. But be warned it makes alot! Next time I will make 3 or 4 smaller balls. Very strong taste delicious!
Was unable to get mine to form into a ball it was just a gooey mess. So instead I turned it into a dip covering the bottom of the dish with the sesame seeds and the top. I also substituted habanero hot sauce for the chipotle giving it a slightly hotter taste.
This was great! I omitted the hot mustard and the chipotle hot sauce and added additional horseradish and an extra garlic clove but other than that I stuck to the recipe. I used a Tawny Port since the recipe didn't specify but I think a Ruby would work just as well. It was a snap to put together in the processor. Rolling the ball in the sesame seeds was kind of messy but a 1/2 cup was plenty to cover. Took it to work for our Halloween potluck serving it with those 1/2 pretzel/1/2 Ritz crackers and it was a big success. Loved it!
I like the idea of the cheese ball being black but that could be done with any good cheese ball recipe. The problem is that this cheeseball just didn't taste very good. It was very boring and bland. I had to add a lot more to it to give it even a little kick of flavor. It works well as a starting point and I had no trouble molding it as someone else noted. I would recommend this as a base but expect to need to play around with some other additions if you want any flavor interest at all.
