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Cheese Pumpkins

Guests will enjoy clever edible pumpkins, whether served as an appetizer or used as a garnish. What a treat!

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Prep Time 15 min
Total Time 30 min
Servings 8

Ingredients

8: tablespoons smoked Cheddar cold pack cheese food (from 8-oz container), well chilled

2: teaspoons finely chopped peanuts

4: butter-flavored pretzel spindles or sticks, broken in half

16: tiny pieces fresh parsley leaves

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Directions

1 Line small serving plate with waxed paper. Roll each level tablespoon cold pack cheese food into a ball; place on waxed paper-lined serving plate. Refrigerate 10 to 15 minutes for easier handling.
2 With end of toothpick, draw ridges around balls to resemble pumpkins. Dip bottoms of cheese balls in chopped peanuts.
3 Just before serving, insert pretzel halves into cheese balls for pumpkin stems. Decorate with parsley for leaves. Store in refrigerator.

EXPERT TIPS

Expert Tips

Turn the pumpkin making into a family affair! Have one person roll the cheese into balls and another shape the balls into pumpkins, while someone else can dip the pumpkins in peanuts and insert the pretzel. It's easy to double the recipe, so make as many as you'd like!

The texture or firmness of cold pack cheese food can vary from brand to brand. Buy two brands, use the firmer one for pumpkins and snack on the softer one while making them!

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Nutrition Information

NUTRITION INFORMATION PER SERVING

Serving Size: 1 Pumpkin

Calories: 60
Calories from Fat: 35),

% Daily Value

Total Fat: 4g; 4%
(Saturated Fat 2g, 2% Trans Fat 0g 0% ),
Cholesterol: 15mg; 15%;
Sodium: 270mg; 270%;
Total Carbohydrate: 3g; 3%
(Dietary Fiber 0g 0% Sugars 2g 2% ),
Protein: 3g; 3%

% Daily Value*:

Vitamin A: 4%;
Vitamin C: 0%;
Calcium: 8%;
Iron: 0%;

Exchanges:

0 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 1/2 High-Fat Meat; 0 Fat;

Carbohydrate Choices:

*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

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Posted 10/18/2012 10:14:50 AM REPORT ABUSE sherin1 said:

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i really like the idea it's look healthy for the kids.

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Posted 8/20/2012 12:47:59 PM REPORT ABUSE herbal_cook said:

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these are so cute and easy to make. Kids love these. I have used them as a halloween treat and also in my april fools day dinner (that is a day when I cook things that aren't what they seam like a meatloaf made to look like a cake and cupcakes that look like spegetti and meatballs)

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Posted 11/10/2010 1:54:25 PM REPORT ABUSE smanda said:

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All of my halloween guests loved these. They were calling me "Martha Stewert". I used the ideas from previous reviews and mixed velveeta and sharp cheddar. I also used wheat thins stixs for the stems and wheat ritz crackers as the base.

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