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Bacon Gorgonzola Cheeseball

Course Appetizer
Author Cecilia

Ingredients

  • 8 oz Cream cheese softened
  • 1/4 cup butter softened
  • 1 clove garlic minced
  • 8 oz white cheddar cheese grated
  • 1/2 cup crumbled Gorgonzola cheese
  • 12 grape tomatoes seeded, and chopped
  • 2 green onions, white and green chopped
  • 6 slices thick cut bacon chopped
  • 3 shakes Worcestershire sauce (that's hard to spell!)
  • Fresh ground pepper

Garnish: Chopped tomatoes, bacon, chopped herb

Instructions

  • Cooked the chopped bacon in a small pan until crisp.  Drain on paper towels and set aside.
  • In electric mixing bowl, on slow/medium speed combine cream cheese, butter and garlic until blended.
  • Add cheddar, Gorgonzola, chopped onion, blend.  Add chopped tomato and bacon bits, blend.  Add Worcestershire and black pepper, blend.
  • Line bowl(s) with plastic wrap with overhang.  Depending on the size of balls you desire, spoon mixture into plastic wrap, pull up edges of wrap and twist to help in forming balls,  Refrigerate for at least 2 hours.  Remove wrap, if desired top with garish, or press garnish into balls and serve with crackers