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    Home » Recipes » Halloween

    Mini Monster Cheese Balls and Cake Ball Monsters Plus Video Tutorial

    Published: Oct 17, '20 · Modified: Oct 17, '20 · By: Beth Klosterboer · This post may contain affiliate links.

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    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
    ½ 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 Klosterboer
    Ingredients
    Cheese Balls:
    • 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
    • 8 ounces shredded sharp cheddar cheese
    • ½ 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.

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    Hi, I'm Beth Jackson Klosterboer, a professional chocolatier & baker, cookbook author, and event planner. I love sharing recipes for happy occasions here on Hungry Happenings. I also create easy fudge recipes to share at HowToMakeEasyFudge.com, rice krispie treat recipes at HowToMakeCerealTreats.com, and easy cookie recipes at HowToMakeEasyCookies.com
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    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 09, 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 05, 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 05, 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 06, 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 06, 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
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