Hedgehog Cheese Ball

This is such a fun cheese ball appetizer to make for holiday parties!  This idea came from a "Country Christmas Ideas" magazine  (I don't remember which year).   I made him for a recent family gathering and everyone loved him!  I used an old family favorite cheese ball recipe as the base, and then decorated him  according to how they had done it in the magazine. 

Hedgehog Cheese Ball

Ingredients:

4 boxes of Philadelphia cream cheese, softened

2 pkg Budig deli corned beef, finely chopped

8-10 scallions, finely chopped

2 teaspoons Accent

1/4 teaspoon garlic powder

1/2 teaspoon curry powder

1 pound (2 cans) Smokehouse salted almonds

1 red grape 

1 olive (or 2 raisins)

crackers

Mix 3 packages of the cream cheese with beef, scallions, accent, garlic and curry powder.  

Cover and refrigerate for an hour.  Shape like a hedgehog.  

Use the last package of softened cream cheese to spread a thin layer of white over entire hedgehog.  

Use a 1/2 red grape for his nose.  Cut an olive to make two eyes.

Press almonds into body, pointed side up.

Serve with crackers.

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