Mini Cheese Balls Appetizers
These spicy mini cheese ball appetizers are packed with cream cheese, three cheeses, jalapeños, everything bagel seasoning, and a crunchy coating of nuts and wasabi peas. Perfect for parties, holidays, and easy entertaining.
Servings: 20
Ingredients
- 2 8-ounce packages of cream cheese at room temperature
- 3/4 cup of grated Parmesan cheese
- 1/3 cup grated Asiago cheese
- 1/4 cup grated Romano cheese
- 2 cloves of garlic minced
- 1 tbsp + 1 tsp everything bagel seasoning
- 1 medium jalapenos peppers with the pith and seeds removed and minced
- 1 each mini peppers red, yellow, and red with the pith and seeds removed and minced
- 1/2 cup parsley wash and stems removed then chopped
- 1 cup mixed assorted nuts
- 1/2 Wasabi peas crushed
- freshly cracked black peppercorn and kosher salt
- Wheat Thin Crackers
Instructions
- Into a medium-sized bowl, add the softened cream cheese, parmesan, asiago, romano, garlic, everything bagel seasoning, jalapeños, mini-tri-colored peppers, and parsley, and mix well. Add the freshly cracked black peppercorn and kosher salt as needed. Cover and chill the mixture in the fridge for about 20 minutes.
- Put the assorted mixed nuts and wasabi peas into a food processor and pulse until the mixture is coarsely chopped. Spoon the mixture onto a plate and shake it slightly to spread it out.
- Using a 2 tbsp scoop, scoop a portion of the cream cheese mixture into your palm and work into a ball, then dredge through the chopped nut mixture, repeat the steps until the last cheese ball is complete.
- Allow the cheese balls to chill. Cover
- Place the mini cheese ball appetizers onto a serving tray or divide them onto separate plates. Place a Wheat Thin cracker on top of each mini cheese ball. Serve.