Ready to spread some joy? Literally? This Chocolate Chip Rudolph Cheese Ball is the perfect joyful holiday dessert! A festive dessert cheeseball decorated to look like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
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Another cute Christmas recipe for #ChristmasSweetsWeek is hitting the blog today and I love how it turned out. This creamy chocolate chip dessert cheese ball is decorated to look like Rudolph the Red Nose Red Reindeer and would be perfect for any holiday party this year!
What you’ll need for Chocolate Chip Rudolph Cheese Ball: (amounts below in recipe)
- cream cheese, softened
- unsalted butter, softened
- powdered sugar
- chocolate chips
- vanilla extract
- Candy Eyes
- red gumball
- chocolate covered pretzels
How to help the cheese ball keep its shape:
I don’t like for the dessert cheeseballs that I make to be thick and crumbly. Personally, my preference is for dessert cheeseballs to be creamy and easy to spread, so that means they may need a little help in the fridge to hold their shape.
This is were a small bowl comes in handy!
Once your cheese ball mixture is ready to go into the fridge, lay a piece of plastic wrap on a flat surface and spoon mixture into the center.
Roll and fold cheese ball into a ball, wrapping it in the plastic wrap. Place into a bowl to help it hold its shape.
Place wrapped ball into the refrigerator for at least 2 hours (or overnight)
Decorating the Chocolate Chip Rudolph Cheese Ball:
This Christmas cheeseball is covered in chocolate chips. You can use semi sweet chocolate chips or milk chocolate chips to cover this reindeer cheese ball or even mini chocolate chips.
For antlers I used Chocolate covered pretzels but you could also use regular pretzels or pretzel crisps.
Nose options for the Chocolate Chip Rudolph Cheese Ball:
So for the nose, I tried a few different candies to get that signature red nose for Rudolph the Red Nose Red Reindeer.
First there was this Wild Cherry lollipop that I tried for the nose. It was the easiest as far as staying on the cheeseball. However, Rudolph the Red Nose Red Reindeer looked like Rudolph the Red Nose Troll with this huge red sucker on his face haha.
The Wild Cherry sucker stayed on best because you can wrap the lolipop stick in plastic wrap and stick it into the cheeseball.
Then I found this red Dubble Bubble gum and I think it looked much better as Rudolph’s nose. Now he just looks like Rudolph the Red Nose Christmas Mouse. haha
Just kidding, kinda 😉
I love him.
However the red gumball looked better but you’ll need to wedge it in there and add some chocolate chips under it.
I love how this fun holiday cheeseball came out.
He would be perfect right beside a bowl of Reindeer Food Snack Mix.
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Chocolate Chip Rudolph Cheese Ball
Ready to spread some joy? Literally? This Chocolate Chip Rudolph Cheese Ball is the perfect joyful holiday dessert! A festive dessert cheeseball decorated to look like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. In a large bowl, use an electric mixer and mix together cream cheese and butter until smooth Mix in powdered sugar! Mix well. Add in vanilla and add 1 cup chocolate chips. Mix Well Lay a piece of plastic wrap on a flat surface and spoon mixture into the center. Roll and fold into a ball, wrapping it in the plastic wrap. Place into a bowl to help it hold its shape. Place wrapped ball into the refrigerator for at least 2 hours (or overnight) When ready to serve remove cheese ball from fridge and remove plastic wrap. Place on serving place and cover in chocolate chips. Decorate with candy eyes, gumball nose and pretzel antlers 
Chocolate Chip Rudolph Cheese Ball
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Welcome to #ChristmasSweetsWeek 2019! Co-hosted by Terri from Love and Confections and Christie from A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures! What better way to celebrate the holidays than with food and fun? 25 bloggers from around the country have come together to share some of their favorite sweet Christmas recipes!!
Deck the halls and get ready for very merry sweet treats, like fudge, cookies, Christmas morning breakfasts, layer cakes, cocoa, and more! Follow along on social media with our #ChristmasSweetsWeek hashtag. Happy Holidays!
Enjoy these #ChristmasSweetsWeek recipes from our bloggers:
Christmas Breakfasts:
Easy Candied Orange Peel Sticky Rolls from A Day in the Life on the Farm
Christmas Pastries and Desserts:
Cherry Streusel Pie from Seduction In The Kitchen
Chocolate Chip Rudolph Cheese Ball from Big Bears Wife
Eggnog Danish Kringle from The Kitchen Prep
Key Lime Thumbprint Cookies from It Bakes Me Happy
Peppermint Mocha Brownies from The Redhead Baker
Polar Bear Paws from Our Good Life
Vegan Chocolate Peppermint Cupcakes from The Baking Fairy
Christmas Candies:
Easy Nut Brittle from A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures
Absolutely adorable. We are having our annual Santa lunch tomorrow. I think this will be a great addition to the party.