Chocolate Chip Cheese Ball

     Hallelujah blog reading friends! At last, the Chocolate Chip Cheese Ball recipe has arrived. After many requests, I have decided to bring this recipe out of my secret arsenal and share it with the Charlentrèe world. I was never really trying to keep it a secret. In fact I didn’t even create it and I have only eaten it twice. But this is the sort of recipe that makes an impression. When you taste the Chocolate Chip Cheese Ball, you instantly want the recipe and want to keep it as a secret treasure that only you can bring to the shower, the potluck, the Christmas party, the cookout, etcetera. So my friends, take it and all the credit, don’t tell anyone you got it from me and I wont tell anyone that I got it from the Historic Madison, Part on the Porch at Valley Farm cookbook!

Ingredients:

8 oz cream cheese, softened

½ c. butter, softened

¾ c. confectioners’ sugar

2 T. brown sugar

¼ t. vanilla extract

¾ c. mini semi-sweet chocolate chips, plus extra for rolling (about ½ c.)

1 box chocolate graham crackers in pieces

     In a medium bowl, beat together cream cheese and butter until smooth. Mix in both sugars and vanilla. Stir in chocolate chips. Cover and chill in refrigerator at least 30 minutes. Shape mixture into a ball and wrap with plastic wrap. Chill in freezer at least 1 hour. Remove from freezer, unwrap, and roll in extra chocolate chips. Serve immediately with chocolate grahams.  

Perfect for tailgating.