Halloween Cheese and Cracker Appetizer - Cheddar Pumpkin Patch

When I was making my Spicy Spider hors d'oeuvres, I got a little tired of assembling all the olive spiders, but I still had cheese mixture left. I decided to make these cute little cheese "pumpkins".

The cheese mixture was my own recipe, but you could certainly use a different combo of cheese and cream cheese. A store bought orange cheese spread would look really cool as a pumpkin, too!

Here's what you NEED:
crackers
spreadable cheese (I made my own, recipe to follow)
almonds (crushed)
cucumber

My Homeade Cheese Ingredients:
I used Tillamook Garlic Chili Sharp Cheddar and Horizon Organic Cream Cheese.

1 block cream cheese
8 oz cheddar or interesting, spicy orange cheese, shredded
small jar of roasted red peppers or small red pepper roasted
optional:
chili pepper
??? you decide ???

Cheese Instructions:

Blend ingredients in food processor on pulse until it is mixed. You do not need to pulverized this. I like to see chunks of peppers and small pieces of cheddar Just a scrape the food processor and mix on pulse until it is blended nicely.

I used a deep tablespoon and regular spoon to form a nice faceted pumpkin shape. I suppose you could use a melon baller or something to that effect.

Then I dipped it into crushed almonds.



Then I garnished with a cucumber "stem" and a parsley leaf.

Altogether, they make a really cute pumpkin patch!

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