Here’s another recipe that I’m making fit my Easter theme, but it can be used with other holidays….or for just random nights when you want to eat cheese dip!

CHEESE. It’s a crowd pleaser, and isn’t that what you want to bring when you’ve been tasked with providing an appetizer for your next family gathering??!! You’ll be accepting their thanks all day, and only you will know how absolutely little time this took for you to pull off! That’s right, this is another “make in advance” option so that on the day of your event (be it Easter Sunday when you’ve still got to get your darling outfit together, go to church, and then finish cleaning the house before hoards of family members come traipsing in…or on a Thursday evening after you’ve worked all day and have friends coming over for drinks and still have to clean the house because it never stays that way!) all you have to do it plate and serve.

INGREDIENTS

• 16 ounces Cream Cheese, softened ( 2 packages)
• 4 heaping tablespoons Hormel Crumbled Bacon
• 1/4 cup finely chopped scallions (green onions)
• 1 heaping tablespoon horseradish
• 1/2 teaspoon powdered garlic
• 1 tablespoon Worcestershire Sauce
• 2 cups shredded yellow cheddar cheese, divided
• 1 bunch of parsley
• Crackers, Pretzels, Veggies to dip with

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Place cream cheese, bacon, scallions, horseradish, garlic, Worcestershire sauce and 1 cup of shredded cheese into a mixing bowl. Blend together, cover, and move bowl and contents to the fridge for 30 minutes (or until you are ready to plate and serve).
2. After 30 minutes (or when you are ready to plate and serve), remove mixture from the fridge and scoop out onto parchment or wax paper. Form cheese mixture into a carrot shape.
3. Cover “carrot” with the remaining shredded cheese.
4. Top with a bunch of parsley, slightly pushing stems into the top of the cheese “carrot”.
5. Serve with your choice of crackers, pretzels, or veggies for dipping and spreading

And how easy was that?? Looks like you put in a ton of work, tastes fantastic, and took less than an hour to put together.

Ok so this is going to be refrigerated for a while, and then will be turned into a carrot 🥕Easy to shape if you flip onto the plate and use the parchment paper to push the mixtures into the proper shape…

This could easily be shaped into a ball for non-Easter or non-Springy servings. Any other shapes you can think of that would work?? Let me know in the comments!!