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Mini Monster Cheese Balls and Cake Ball Monsters Plus Video Tutorial

Published: Oct 17, 2020 · Recipe by: Beth · 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 Chicks 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)

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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.

About the Author, Beth Jackson Klosterboer

Beth is a professional chocolatier, recipe developer, event planner, and cookbook author who loves to make fun food.

Read More about Beth...

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Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Peggy Jo Miskimen

    October 27, 2018 at 4:15 am

    Thanks for creating and sharing easy, delicious fun to eat treats!

    Reply
    • Beth

      October 28, 2018 at 7:52 am

      You are so welcome!

      Reply
  2. starcraft

    September 9, 2015 at 4:28 am

    Aww~~ Look at these cute monster~~~ How cute they are~~ and eat them in one bite *yummy*

    Reply
  3. Anonymous

    April 18, 2014 at 9:05 pm

    I am only at step 1. The Bacon Cheese Ball alone is delicious! Now onto step 2!

    Reply
    • beth

      April 19, 2014 at 12:10 am

      I'm glad you like the recipe and hope you have fun decorating your monsters!

      Reply
  4. marissa | Rae Gun Ramblings

    October 31, 2013 at 5:30 am

    oh my goodness these are so cute!

    Reply
  5. Anonymous

    October 18, 2013 at 4:39 pm

    you could also make the black ones look like spiders by using black olives slices to make legs. and the orange one could also be little pumkins make a face using triangles cut fronm black olives or slices of cheese colored and use pretzel stick as stem.

    Reply
  6. Anonymous

    May 30, 2013 at 8:00 pm

    Also what kind of cheese do you use on the eyes? Your slice in the picture looks like a really big piece.

    Reply
    • Beth Jackson Klosterboer

      May 31, 2013 at 3:40 pm

      I just used slices of provolone cheese, but any white cheese will work fine. The piece of cheese was probably 3 or 4 inches in diameter.

      Reply
  7. Anonymous

    May 30, 2013 at 7:59 pm

    Is there something else that I can use instead of the black marker on the cheese eye? I don't want to spend $7 just use that one time hahaha.

    Reply
    • Beth Jackson Klosterboer

      May 31, 2013 at 3:42 pm

      You can use black food coloring, or if you don't have any of that, mix together red and green food coloring and maybe some blue until you get a nice dark color, then paint it onto the cheese using a food use only paint brush.

      Reply
  8. Anonymous

    April 5, 2013 at 4:35 pm

    Hi I am wanting to make these for my sons monster party but I am wondering how much in advance can I make them without the white cheese eyes drying out or curling on the edges? I have lots to make so anything that I can make ahead of time would be better for me. Also do you think that the thin shred or the thicker shred packaged cheese would work best? And one last question. We have some vegetarian people in the family what could I sub the bacon for in these so that everyone can have a adorable little monster.

    You can email me at ashleyehlert@hotmail.com

    Thanks so much.

    Reply
    • Beth Jackson Klosterboer

      April 5, 2013 at 4:42 pm

      Hi Ashley,

      You can cut the small cheese pieces several days ahead, just store them in an airtight container in the refrigerator. You might want to lay a piece of plastic wrap or tin foil directly on top of them to really seal them well. I've use thin and thick shred and think I prefer the thick. If the shreds are too long, just cut them up a bit. I have made this cheese ball without the bacon and they are still great. You can really use any cheese ball recipe you like or even use store bought flavored cream cheese instead. Good luck and have fun.

      Reply
    • Anonymous

      April 6, 2013 at 4:48 pm

      Great thanks so much for your help. I didnt even think to just use cream cheese already flavored thats a great idea. I thought of one last thing. I have never used the black marker food pens before. How in advance can you add that to the cheese slices? And do you think that there is anything else that you can use for a mouth? If not I can get the olives.

      Ashley

      Reply
    • Beth Jackson Klosterboer

      April 6, 2013 at 8:45 pm

      I think you can add the food coloring to the cheese and then store it in the refrigerator. I'm pretty sure my eyes still looked good a day or two later. If you can't get black olives, just color more slivers of cheese with the black food coloring marker.

      Reply
  9. Alison Lippert

    October 25, 2012 at 4:17 pm

    I am so making these for my work Halloween party. Question- do you just eat them by popping them in your mouth? Or serve with chips/crackers?

    Reply
    • Beth Jackson Klosterboer

      October 25, 2012 at 5:32 pm

      I served them with crackers, but most people just popped them in their mouth. They are great just on their own.

      Reply
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  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. Amy CookingAdventures

    September 10, 2012 at 3:02 pm

    These are SO CUTE! I just love them!

    Reply
  17. 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
  18. Printabelle

    September 7, 2012 at 6:36 am

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

    Reply
  19. 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
  20. 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 😉

    Reply
  21. 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! 🙂

    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 🙂 Check it out: http://creative-food.blogspot.com/2012/09/one-lovely-blog-very-inspiring-blogger.html

    Reply
  22. 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
  23. Georganne (LilaLoa)

    September 4, 2012 at 10:19 pm

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

    Reply
  24. Michelle | Creative Food

    September 4, 2012 at 7:10 pm

    These are adorable! I love them!

    Reply
  25. The Partiologist

    September 4, 2012 at 1:53 pm

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

    Reply
  26. 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
  27. Tiffany Yang

    September 4, 2012 at 1:43 am

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

    Reply
  28. Dorothy @ Crazy for Crust

    September 4, 2012 at 1:25 am

    LOVE these! Totally pinned.

    Reply
  29. Jill @ KitchenFunWithMy3Sons.com

    September 3, 2012 at 7:44 pm

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

    Reply

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