Title: Almond Cheese Pinecone
Categories: Appetizer Spread
Yield: 10 Servings
| | | Crackers |
| | | Pine sprigs for garnish |
| 1/2 | ts | Worcestershire sauce |
| 1/4 | c | Minced green onions |
| 1/2 | lb | Crumbled blue cheese |
| 2 | cn | Blanch toast whole almonds |
| 3 | pk | (8-oz ea) cream cheese softened |
| 2 | pk | (5-oz ea) pasturized process cheese spread w/pimento |
In a large bowl with mixer at medium speed, beat cream
cheese, cheese spread with pimento and blue cheese until
smooth. With spoon, stir in green onions and worcestershire
sauce. Cover and refrigerate about one hour. On work surface,
with hands, shape cheese mixture into shape of large pine cone.
Arrange on wooden board. Beginning at narrow end of cone,
carefully press alsmonds about 1/4 inch deep into cheese
mixture in rows, making sure that pointed end of each almond
extends at a slight angle. Continue pressing almonds into
cheese mixture in rows, with rows slightly overlapping, until
all cheese is covered. Garnish pinecone with pine sprigs. Serve
with crackers.