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Mini Monster Cheese Balls and Cake Ball Monsters Plus Video Tutorial

October 17, 2020 This post may contain affiliate links.

These Mini Monster Cheese Balls and Cake Ball Monsters are the cutest Halloween treats you can make! One is savory and one is sweet… they’re the perfect pair!

After every one of my parties, as I clean up all the leftover food, I always notice that the cheese plate is completely empty. Now my husband may have something to do with that, but I do believe that no matter what occasion you are celebrating, cheese is always popular.

For our Halloween parties, I don’t want to just serve slices or cubes of cheese; I like to dress my cheese up. Often I will just simply cut shapes out of cheese slices using a cookie-cutter, but more recently I’ve been turning cheese balls into festive shapes and my guests love it.

My inspiration for these Mini Monster Cheese Balls actually came to me on Valentine’s Day, in a roundabout way. Last February I created Warm Fuzzy Cake Balls and while I was decorating them in red and pink colored coconut, I decided to see what they’d look like in orange and black for Halloween.

Cute, huh?

I was planning to post them as a project here, but as I looked at the monster in the center of this picture, I couldn’t help but think that the orange coconut looked like shredded cheese. So, instead of posting a tutorial for another coconut covered cake ball in the form of little monsters, I decided to share a similar yet different technique to create Mini Monster Cheese Balls.

If you’d like to make the sweet cake ball monsters, just follow the instructions for the Warm Fuzzy Cake Balls or the Coconut Cake Ball Chicksย and use orange and black food coloring to color your coconut. Add candy eyes and create other decorations like feet and antennae out of colored candy melts or white chocolate.

VIDEO

Enjoy the new video tutorial.

 

Mini Monster Cheese Balls

(makes approximately 18 monsters)

Ingredients:

8 ounces cream cheese, softened
8 ounces shredded sharp cheddar cheese
1/2 cup finely chopped cooked bacon (or use real bacon bits)

Decorations:

8 ounces shredded cheddar cheese
black olive slices
pretzel sticks
white cheese slices
black food coloring marker

NOTE:

  • I grated my own cheese to make the original version of these Mini Monster Cheese Balls. When I picked up my monsters, I smashed the cheesy fur down a bit, so when I made the video I used packaged shredded cheese. The monsters definitely look different. So you can decided which you like better.

 

Special Supplies Needed:

1 tablespoon size ice cream scoop, optional
small round metal cutter or a round plunger cutter

Instructions:

Let’s make some monsters!

  • Stir all of the cheese ball ingredients together.
  • Place 8 ounces of shredded cheddar cheese in a bowl.
  • Scoop out a tablespoonful of the cheese ball mixture and drop it into the bowl of cheese.
  • Toss it around in the cheese, pressing the cheese onto it until the entire cheese ball is coated in shreds.
  • Repeat until you just have a tablespoon of filling remaining. You will need this to be the glue to hold the eyes and mouths onto your monsters.
  • Use a small round fondant cutter to cut eyes out of white cheese slices. Draw pupils onto the eyes using a black food coloring marker. For tips on using your markers go here.
  • Break pretzel sticks in half. Stick one, two, or three sticks coming out of the top of each mini cheese ball.
  • Use some of the remaining cheese ball filling to attach the cheese slice eyes to the pretzel sticks.
  • Use the round fondant cutter to cut small little mouths out of the black olive slices.
  • Use some of the cheese ball filling to attach them to each monster.

  • Arrange on a serving platter and share them with your guests.
  • You can make the cheese balls for your monsters several days before your party, but don’t decorate them until a few hours ahead of your party or the pretzels may get soggy.

Recipe

(Originally published on September 3, 2012)

mini monster cheese balls
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Mini Monster Cheese Balls
Prep Time
30 mins
 

Create mini cheese balls then decorate then to look like cute little monsters.

Course: Appetizer
Cuisine: American
Keyword: halloween, mini cheese balls, monsters
Servings: 18
Calories: 125 kcal
Author: Beth
Ingredients
Cheese Balls:
  • 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
  • 8 ounces shredded sharp cheddar cheese
  • 1/2 cup finely chopped cooked bacon (or use real bacon bits)
Decorations:
  • 8 ounces shredded cheddar cheese
  • black olive slices
  • pretzel sticks
  • white cheese slices
  • black food coloring marker
Instructions
  1. Stir all of the cheese ball ingredients together.
  2. Place 8 ounces of shredded cheddar cheese in a bowl.
  3. Scoop out a tablespoonful of the cheese ball mixture and drop it into the bowl of cheese.
  4. Toss it around in the cheese, pressing the cheese onto it until the entire cheese ball is coated in shreds.
  5. Repeat until you just have a tablespoon of filling remaining. You will need this to be the glue to hold the eyes and mouths onto your monsters.
  6. Use a small round fondant cutter to cut eyes out of white cheese slices. Draw pupils onto the eyes using a black food coloring marker. For tips on using your markers go here.
  7. Break pretzel sticks in half. Stick one, two or three sticks coming out of the top of each mini cheese ball.
  8. Use some of the remaining cheese ball filling to attach the cheese slice eyes to the pretzel sticks.
  9. Use the round fondant cutter to cut small little mouths out of the black olive slices.
  10. Use some of the cheese ball filling to attach them to each monster.
  11. Arrange on a serving platter and share with your guests.
Recipe Notes

You can make the cheese balls for your monsters several days before your party, but don't decorate them until a few hours ahead of your party or the pretzels may get soggy.

cheese slice owl served with crackers

If you love cheese, you might also enjoy making this fun
Cheese Slice Owl for a Halloween snack.

Serve the cheese ball cauldron with crackers for Halloween.

Or how about a Cheese Ball Cauldron?
Yum!

How about a Cheese Ball Witch Hat?
Fun!

If you like these Mini Monster Cheese Balls, be sure to check out all my other fun Halloween recipes.

Filed Under: Halloween Recipes, Kid's Treats Tagged With: Appetizers, Cake, Cake-Balls, Cheese-Balls, Drawing-On-Food, monsters

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Comments

  1. Jill @ KitchenFunWithMy3Sons.com

    September 3, 2012 at 7:44 pm

    Oh my goodness Beth! These are so adorable…love them!

    Reply
  2. Dorothy @ Crazy for Crust

    September 4, 2012 at 1:25 am

    LOVE these! Totally pinned.

    Reply
  3. Tiffany Yang

    September 4, 2012 at 1:43 am

    Cute! That's all I can say.
    You are a generous!

    Reply
  4. Trish - Sweetology101

    September 4, 2012 at 2:24 am

    they SOOO remind me of those monsters from sesame street that said…yip yip ahah ahah..remember those?!?!?! http://www.sesamestreet.org/muppets/martians SO CUTE!!

    Reply
    • Beth Jackson Klosterboer

      September 4, 2012 at 3:28 pm

      I didn't remember those aliens, but watched the video and they are so cute, as are most Muppets!

      Reply
  5. The Partiologist

    September 4, 2012 at 1:53 pm

    What fun and fuzzy little creatures you created! Love 'em!

    Reply
  6. Michelle | Creative Food

    September 4, 2012 at 7:10 pm

    These are adorable! I love them!

    Reply
  7. Georganne (LilaLoa)

    September 4, 2012 at 10:19 pm

    Oh my goodness! I LOVE THESE!! What a fun, fun idea!!

    Reply
  8. Sue

    September 5, 2012 at 3:32 pm

    Never have I seen CUTER cheese balls, and I'm sure I never will (unless you make some more:))! The little guy out front is especially cute!

    Reply
  9. Michelle | Creative Food

    September 5, 2012 at 7:40 pm

    Even though I've already told you how much I love these mini monster cheese balls and I will say it again: I love them! ๐Ÿ™‚

    I also wanted to let you know that I have always loved your ideas! And for that reason I nominated you for the One Lovely Blog and Very Inspiring Blogger Award ๐Ÿ™‚ Check it out: http://creative-food.blogspot.com/2012/09/one-lovely-blog-very-inspiring-blogger.html

    Reply
  10. Shantalle@lifestylesofthestayathomemom.com

    September 6, 2012 at 4:21 pm

    I love these, they are so darling. I just want to make them for everyone, adults included ๐Ÿ˜‰

    Reply
  11. Carla at Preschool Powol Packets

    September 6, 2012 at 5:46 pm

    I love, love, LOVE these! I want to make them for my kids' Halloween Party! I'm going to pin them and share them on my PreschoolPowolPackets Facebook page! So cool!

    Reply
  12. Printabelle

    September 7, 2012 at 6:36 am

    What an adorable savory snack, my kids would love to make these!!

    Reply
  13. Kim @ The Educators Spin On It

    September 7, 2012 at 9:00 pm

    These are adorable! Just pinned it onto our Cooking with Kids Board. Woudl go great with our Spider Meatballs. Thanks for sharing. http://pinterest.com/educatorsspinon/cooking-with-kids/

    Reply
  14. Amy CookingAdventures

    September 10, 2012 at 3:02 pm

    These are SO CUTE! I just love them!

    Reply
  15. Trish

    September 12, 2012 at 1:48 am

    These are so adorable Beth! How fun to serve up to the kids! Thank you so much for sharing at Mom On Timeout! Pinning!

    Reply
  16. Carolyn

    September 15, 2012 at 12:55 am

    Just wanted to let you know that you were featured on homework today! Thank you so much for taking the time to link up your beautiful project. I truly appreciate it. Have a great weekend.

    Reply
    • Beth Jackson Klosterboer

      September 15, 2012 at 2:17 am

      Thanks Carolyn, I really appreciate the feature =)

      Reply
  17. Cheryl @ Sew Can Do

    September 17, 2012 at 2:54 pm

    Love how cute this is. I've featured it today – stop by & grab a Featured On button. Thanks for linking another fabulous food creation to Sew Can Do's Craftastic Monday party:)

    Reply
  18. Marcie

    September 24, 2012 at 7:53 pm

    These are too dang cute. Please come share them on my linky party!
    http://www.igottatrythat.com/p/link-party-here_24.html
    Thanks,
    Marcie

    Reply
  19. ChefJen

    September 24, 2012 at 11:09 pm

    You are my new idol!

    Reply
    • Beth Jackson Klosterboer

      September 25, 2012 at 12:57 am

      You're so sweet, thanks!

      Reply
  20. marianne

    October 5, 2012 at 3:19 pm

    Love these! Made them for my sons monster themed first birthday and the y were a hit! Everyone commented on them.:)

    Reply
    • Beth Jackson Klosterboer

      October 5, 2012 at 3:27 pm

      Great to hear it Marianne! Did you snap any pictures? I'd love to see them and share them in my Readers' Gallery.

      Reply
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