Spider Cheeseballs for Halloween

Creepy, crawly, and delicious, these Spider Cheeseballs are the ideal Halloween appetizer recipe.

With Halloween only a little over a month away, I thought now might be a good time to share a few ideas and recipes to help you celebrate! First up are these Spider Cheeseballs.

Halloween Cheeseball Recipe Idea:

Okay, I know what you’re thinking, “Really, Michael? Another cheeseball recipe?”. I know, I’ve been on a cheese kick lately, but let’s just ROLL with it. (Pun intended.) I like to compare my obsession with cheese to an artist who works in a particular medium for a time. Apparently, my current medium is cheese shaped into balls.

Even if you’re not as excited about cheeseballs as I am, there’s no denying that these Spider Cheeseballs are a fun Halloween treat.

Spider Cheeseball for Halloween:

I recently styled a Halloween table (I’ll be sharing that with you soon.) and wanted to add a couple food elements. While a tablescape can look beautiful on its own, I think a few treats and drinks can complete the look.

In fact, I actually made two cheeseballs – these spiders plus this Cranberry, Bacon, and Walnut Cheeseball. If you look closely at that post, you can see a few cheeseball spiders tucked among the grapes.

How do you make a Spider Cheeseball?

It is so easy.

Toss all of your ingredients into a bowl, mix them together, and form the mixture into small balls. As you can see I made two different sized spiders.

The base for this particular cheeseball has a delicious herb flavor mixed with cream cheese and goat cheese. I think the combination is well-suited to the spiders.

Before adding the “legs,” roll each ball in black sesame seeds. These will give your spiders a wonderful texture and color.

For the legs, I tucked small pretzel sticks into the cheeseball. For the larger spider cheeseballs, I used whole sticks, and for the smaller cheeseballs, I broke the sticks in half.

Just pop them in the refrigerator until serving time.

While you can use the pretzel sticks to eat the cheeseballs, I also like serving them with crackers.

Be sure to get creative with your presentation. I think the “spiders” look extra creepy climbing over green grapes. I even tucked in a few fake plastic spiders for more variety. Halloween appetizer perfected!

Want more Halloween recipes? Try these:

• Chocolate Skull Cake
• Pumpkin-Shaped Everything Bagel Cheeseball
• Tombstone Snack Cakes
• Caramel Apple Martini
• FREE Halloween Recipe Card Printable 

No matter how you serve these Spider Cheeseballs, they are bound to be a tasty and spooky Halloween treat.

Spider Cheeseballs for Halloween

Creepy, crawly, and delicious, these Spider Cheeseballs are the ideal Halloween appetizer recipe.

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Course: Appetizer, Snack

Cuisine: American

Keyword: appetizer, cheeseball, halloween, recipe

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 15 minutes

Total Time: 25 minutes

Ingredients

• 2 packages 8 ounces each cream cheese, softened
• 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
• 4 ounces goat cheese
• 4 green onions chopped
• 3 garlic cloves minced
• 1 tablespoon dried dill weed
• 2 teaspoons dried oregano
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
• 1/2 cup black sesame seeds
• 2 cups pretzel sticks
• Additional pretzels and crackers for serving

Instructions

• In a bowl, beat together the cream cheese and olive oil until smooth. Then beat in the goat cheese, green onions, garlic, dill, oregano, salt, and pepper. Chill for 30 minutes.
• With your hands, roll the cheese mixture into 1 1/2-inch balls (for small spiders) and 3-inch balls (for large spiders). Then roll the balls in the black sesame seeds to coat.
• For the small spiders, use four pretzel sticks broken in half to create eight legs (four on each side of the ball.) For the large spiders, use eight pretzel sticks to create eight legs (four on each side of the ball.)
• Cover the Spider Cheeseballs in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes or until you're ready to serve them. Serve with crackers or additional pretzel sticks.