Bacon Ranch Cheese Ball
Description
Need something to serve or bring to a holiday gathering and don't have much time to prepare it? This cheeseball will delight everyone with its amazing flavors of bacon, cheese, Ranch dressing, green onions in cream cheese. Serve it with an assortment of y
Ingredients
2 - 8 oz. packages cream cheese
1 oz. packet dry buttermilk Ranch dressing mix
½ c. Cheddar cheese, freshly grated
¼ c. green onion, thinly sliced
6 bacon slices, fried and crumbled (or ½ c. bottled real bacon bits)*
¼ c. chopped black olives, optional
1 c. pecans or almonds, finely chopped, for coating
assortment of crackers, for serving
Directions
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Mix together cream cheese and Ranch dressing packet until smooth. Add cheese, onions, crumbled bacon and olives, if using.
Shape mixture into 1 large ball or 2 small balls; roll in the nuts to coat the outside.
Store in the refrigerator.
Serve with your favorite crackers.
6-8 servings.
*If needing a vegetarian appetizer as well, you may want to cut the bacon to 3 slices, make 2 cheese balls and add the crumbled bacon to just one of them.
Served with crackers.