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Christmas Tree Cheeseball | The BEST Holiday Appetizer!
11/6/2024 | 46m 39sVideo has Closed Captions
Join me LIVE for a Christmas tree-shaped cheeseball tutorial.
Watch LIVE as we create a festive Christmas tree-shaped cheeseball! Perfect for holiday parties, this fun and easy appetizer combines delicious flavors and seasonal charm. Follow along step-by-step and get ready to impress your guests with this creative and tasty treat! 🌟🧀
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The Baking Journal is a local public television program presented by CET
The Baking Journal
Christmas Tree Cheeseball | The BEST Holiday Appetizer!
11/6/2024 | 46m 39sVideo has Closed Captions
Watch LIVE as we create a festive Christmas tree-shaped cheeseball! Perfect for holiday parties, this fun and easy appetizer combines delicious flavors and seasonal charm. Follow along step-by-step and get ready to impress your guests with this creative and tasty treat! 🌟🧀
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshiphello everyone hope you were listening or could hear those Snappy little traditional Christmas tunes I've got in the flavor and because it's been sitting to room temperature it makes it a whole lot easier just to mix by hand but if you wanted and I am not um a huge fan of oregano but it does give this cheese ball a nice little extra um um the recipe if you guys are and just looking around to make sure that I added everything that I put out we're just going to do a one little dash of mixture all right so next up oh we have a question can these work on a Sherie board maybe in a small cup absolutely I mean so decorate all right so cheese is in now because because we can you could use all of this to make one big Christmas tree if that's what you wanted you could WB so here we have plastic wrap and what we're going to do can you guys can't see okay here move it aide move all this out let's get wrap which is going to then coat um our our tree the the first time I did this um I meticulous ly like took my little tree shaped cheese ball and I put little right okay so thank you so if you guys can you can see this okay we're just now going to take our dill and kind of wrap it around and do all right I lied it's a little messy um so now just take your your plastic wrap and kind of loosely cover it but we're us here it is um but what I I think I think what we'll do next maybe is let's go ahead and shape the rest of our cheese wrap but you know what you could what else would be fun is if you took what you know you took a little bit of the cheese made a that um and then to give it the characteristic oh you know what I forgot to do oh my gosh see I told you I was a little like God you got to laugh um all right so here we go we're going to put the cheese on the plastic wrap and now we're going to get it all right there we go thank you and just coat it with the cheddar cheese much more pumpkin es and you're going to have I mean there's I usually I had here a cup of the shredded cheddar um up and now now to give it the characteristic pumpkin look we are going to tie some string and make indents into the cheese ball and what I don't know how many videos you guys have watched if any but string and we're going to go the opposite way and you can do this with as many indents as you'd like um I am I've got four strings here so we're going to do four IND Dan to me right now this kind of looks like a brain so I want to do a few more cuz I don't want my chees ball looking brain and so you just keep turning it and put your string underneath and you just keep inting and tying until you have all of your pumpkin esque IND Dan and this definitely you definitely want this to firm up a little bit in the fridge before you you take off those more but I think this little pumpkin cheese ball is going to be on my Thanksgiving table not sure my kids will eat it but hey it'll be there all right so there we have it can you guys see the string and then fridge all right so before we start to decorate our tree here is the the pumpkin cheese ball that I um had made up earlier and removing the plastic wrap oh my god look I love it when it works when a plan works this is [Music] Darling you guys can see Christmas tree and I think yeah I'm GNA put this back on my cutting board here just to start if it's a big one if you have like you know anything that you can kind of turn it it that would be that would be great um tree and I'm going around here and you know I mean if you didn't want to decorate honest to goodness I mean how cute would just the the dill or peasy so we're getting there guys going around and I'm you know you can use your creative license right I mean it doesn't here you hear the music I'm not going to sing for you um but it's just such a fun time of year all right I think we're getting kind of to the end and here for this for our our almonds and our tree is getting ornaments and so we're just going to be very random here and I so here's probably a the best tip is when you're decorating put this on whatever you're going to serve it on and tree I think that the little bit of like sweet tartness of The Cranberries probably will taste really good with the Herby ball but if you have um kids that I mean maybe maybe I don't know I don't know I would necessarily like chocolate chips thing the other thing that you could put on here too is you could chop up um into small squares um you could chop up um um okay guys what do you think and then here here we put let's just put some crackers around the crackers can be the little skirs and here put a few more on here and then you can randomly place your other crackers here if you had other cheese balls or we could what would really look questions all right guys I think you have it I um wish you all a wonderful holiday season and um make sure that you subscribe to
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