Cheese Mummy: The Best Halloween Potluck Recipe

Cheese Mummy: The Best Halloween Potluck Recipe

from eatingrichly.com
Appetizers
85 min
275 kcal / serving

This cute cheese mummy is surprisingly easy to make and the perfect savory treat for your Halloween party. The light cream cheese is for texture, not cutting calories, but it will still work with regular sour cream.

Ingredients

  • 2 cupsswiss or monterey jack cheese, finely shredded
  • 2 cupssharp cheddar cheese, finely shredded
  • 1 cupcream cheese or goat cheese, softened 8 ounces
  • ½ cuplight sour cream
  • ½yellow onion finely minced
  • ¼ cupchopped roasted red pepper
  • ¼ cupcrumbled or chopped cooked bacon
  • ¼ cupchopped fresh italian parsley
  • ¼ cupsliced almonds
  • 1 cupcream cheese, softened (8ounces)
  • 3 tablespoonsmilk
  • black food dye (optional)
  • 2peppercorns
  • sliver of roasted red pepper

Directions

  1. 1

    Use a stand mixer to beat one cup of cream cheese and sour cream until fluffy.

  2. 2

    Add the swiss and cheddar cheeses, onion, roasted pepper, bacon, parsley, and nuts. Beat on medium speed until well mixed.

  3. 3

    Refrigerate the cheese mixture until firm (about 1 hour).

  4. 4

    Shape cheese ball into a body on a pan or cookie sheet.

  5. 5

    Mix the second cup of cream cheese and milk. Spoon into a pastry bag with a flat or basket weave tip and pipe bandages onto the mummy body.

  6. 6

    (OPTIONAL) If you would like to do the "dirty bandages", pull out a tablespoon of cream cheese "frosting" and dye it a light gray. Smear that in a line up your pastry bag before adding in the white cream cheese. Then pipe bandages onto your mummy.

  7. 7

    Use peppercorns and red pepper to make eyes and a mouth.

  8. 8

    Serve with crackers and pretzel sticks for scooping, or bread to spread it on. Baby carrots are great too!