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!
Blend together the cream cheese and butter until well combined.
Add the powdered sugar, cocoa, and vanilla and mix well, then fold in 1/2 cup of 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 white chocolate chips and arrange them like laces on a football.
Scoop 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.