Chocolate Chip Cheese Ball (Football shaped!)

Chocolate Chip Cheese Ball (Football shaped!)

Get ready to tailgate with an easy take-along dessert! Perfect for making ahead and pulling out for dessert time, this chocolate chip cheese ball can be customized to your team's colors!

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 0

Chilling time 1

Total Time 1 10

Servings

Calories 257kcal

Author Kylee Ayotte

Ingredients

For the Cheese Ball

1 pound cream cheese softened
½ cup butter 1 stick
2 cups powdered sugar
1/3 cup cocoa powder
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup mini chocolate chips

For decorating

¼ cup white chocolate chips
1 cup mini chocolate chips

Instructions

Blend together 1 pound cream cheese (softened) and ½ cup butter until well combined.
Add 2 cups powdered sugar, 1/3 cup cocoa powder, and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract then mix well, then fold in 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips.
Lay out some plastic wrap and dump the mixture on the wrap.
Enclose in the wrap, and begin to shape into a football shape.
Chill for an hour.
Remove the cheese ball from the refrigerator and unwrap.
Begin with the ¼ cup white chocolate chips and arrange them like laces on a football.
Scoop 1 cup mini chocolate chips onto the rest of the ball and cover the outside of the ball.
Set on a serving platter and add cookies, pretzels and other dippers.

Notes

Soften the butter and cream cheese - but don't melt. If you push your thumb into it, it should leave a dent - but not fall apart.
If the ball is too soft to shape when you first make it, wrap it and freeze for 30 minutes. Shape gently then set in the refrigerator until ready to decorate.
Have a platter ready!
Serve chocolate chip cheese ball with nilla wafers, graham crackers, pretzels, and fruit if you're feeling healthy.

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