“Owl” you like to make some Holiday Hooters with Amy’s Bacon and Jalapeño Cheese-Ball.  I Guarantee your friends and family will swoop in and eat ’em up! Who will get the last bite?

Ingredients

• 16 oz cream cheese
• 2 oz onion dip (like for chips)
• 2 cups shredded pepper jack cheese
• juice of 1/2 lemon
• 2TB Mrs. Dash original salt substitute.
• 1/4 cup medium sweet onion chopped
• 2 green onions finely chopped
• 1 small tomatillo finely chopped
• 1/4 c  poblano pepper finely chopped
• 1-2  finely chopped jalapeño peppers
• 3/4 cup cooked bacon crumbles

**For our friends outside the U.S.- Mrs. Dash is a salt free seasoning blend of herbs and spices.**

To make your own or to substitute for Mrs. Dash combine:

• 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• 1 tsp basil
• 1 tsp thyme
• 1 tsp parsley flakes
• 1 tsp onion powder or crushed dried onion
• 1-1/2 tsp lemon pepper

Directions

Combine cream cheese, onion dip, lemon juice, Mrs. Dash, sweet onion, green onion, tomatillo, poblano peppers, jalapeño peppers and 1/4 cup bacon crumbles.

Set aside 1/2 cup cooked bacon crumbles. (They will be used to coat the outside of the finished cheese ball.)

In a large bowl combine:  cream cheese, onion dip, lemon juice, Mrs. Dash, sweet onion, green onion, tomatillo, poblano peppers, jalapeño peppers and 1/4 cup bacon crumbles.

When mixture is creamy work in the shredded  pepper jack cheese and form a ball.

Coat cheese ball with remaining bacon crumbles.

To Make a Holiday Hooter:

I formed the owl body and layered slivered almonds for the chest and used baked pretzel chips for the wings.  For the head I used pepper jack cheese for a feathery effect.  The eyes are more slivered almonds and olives.  A whole almond makes the beak.

“Owl” you like to make
Amy’s Jalapeño and Bacon Cheese-Ball?

He is nested in kale and perched on top of an inverted cake pedestal lined with cheese and crackers.

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