Cherry Pecan Bacon Cheese Dip
Cherry Pecan Bacon Cheese Dip
This dip has all of my favorites things; cream cheese, bacon, dried cherries and toasted pecans. What more can you ask? Maybe some white chocolate:) Serve this yummy dip with pretzels, pumpernickel pretzels crackers of your choice, celery and/or carrot sticks. The combination of flavors in this dip is delicious. You will definitely score a touchdown with this dip and possible an extra two points.
Cream Cheese
Most successful and delicious dip recipes are made with a block of cream cheese. What exactly is cream cheese? Thanks to American ingenuity, cream cheese was developed in 1872 by William Lawrence, a Chester, New York dairy farmer. The appellation comes from the smooth, creamy texture of this mildly tangy, spreadable cheese. The soft, unripened cheese is made from cow’s milk.
By law cream cheese must contain at least 33 percent milk fat and not more than 55 percent moisture. For improved firmness and increased shelf life, most cream cheese has added stabilizers. American neufchatel cheese, not to be confused with French Neufchâtel, is slightly lower in calories because of a lower milk fat content, about 23 percent. It also contains slightly more moisture.
Come In Many Forms
Reduced-fat cream cheese has a milk fat content of between 16.5 and 20 percent. Light or low fat cream cheese can have no more than 16.5 percent milk fat and nonfat cream cheese has zero fat grams. The easily spreadable whipped cream cheese has been made soft and fluffy by air being whipped into it. It has fewer calories per serving than regular cream cheese only because there’s less volume per serving.
Cherry Pecan Bacon Cheese Ball
Ingredients
- 2 8 oz packages cream cheese, room temperature
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 4 tablespoons white vinegar
- 4 tablespoons sugar
- 1/4 cup minced onion
- 1/4 cup minced green pepper
- 1/3 cup minced dried cherries
- 1/3 cup chopped toasted pecans
- 1/4 cup chopped crisp bacon, save 1 tablespoon for garnish
Instructions
- In a small saucepan combine butter, vinegar and sugar. Boil for 2 minutes. Remove from heat and cool.
- In a medium bowl, beat cream cheese and cooled vinegar mixture. Beat until creamy. Add minced onion and minced green pepper. Beat until well combined. Refrigerate 2 hours. Fold in minced dried cherries, chopped toasted pecans and chopped crispy bacon. Shape mixture into a ball. Place on serving plate, garnish with 1 tablespoon reserved chopped bacon
Nutrition
If if you like this recipe you will certainly love this one too. Pecan Date Cheese Ball
Cherry Pecan Bacon Cheese Ball is made with these fine products: Cherryland’s Best Dried Cherries, Fisher Nuts, Nueskes, and Philadelphia Cream Cheese.
14 Comments on “Cherry Pecan Bacon Cheese Dip”
Lynn – what an amazing combo – cherry and bacon – I can't quite imagine it! Cheers
Hi Carole~ Thanks for stopping by and give this dip a try, you'll like it~ You can use dried cranberries also:)
Over the years, I've had my share of cheeseballs. This combination of ingredients is new to me. Sweet, tart, nutty, savory…you've covered it all, Lynn! I've been enjoying your game day recipes.
Thank you for linking!
Hi Michelle~ Thanks so much! Around my house, it's all about the "dips" and appetizers:) See you next week at See Ya in the Gumbo~ Lynn
Hi, Lynn. Wanted to let you know that your cheese ball was one of the top-viewed links from last week's party! It will be featured tonight when this week's party goes live. Thanks again for linking!
Thanks Michelle!! I'll be by later to link up and Thanks again~
I adore anything with cherries in it and the idea of combining cherries with pecans and bacon sounds like magic to me 🙂
Magic is a great word to describe this wonderful dip:) Thanks for stopping by~
Such an interesting combination of flavors I can see you it is one of your favor dips. Thanks for sharing it with us on foodie friday.
Hi Diane~ Thanks for stopping by and have a great day~
This feels so Christmas-y to me, I love it!
Thank you!
What a great recipe – that's perfect for the holidays! Thanks so much for linking up to Freedom Fridays this week, Lynn 🙂 I hope you have a wonderful weekend and I hope you'll join us again next week!
Thanks for stopping Jamie~ See you on Friday~