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CHRISTMAS CHEESE BALLS APPETIZER (Reindeer & Pomegranate Ornament)
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Mar 14, 2025
CHRISTMAS CHEESE BALLS APPETIZER (Reindeer & Pomegranate Ornament) Today's Recipe: **Click here to see my recipe blog: https://catherinesplates.com NEW: To purchase my Dessert Cookbook, click link https://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/10034701/10feb0fb4a14a171cfaeed6889d6656eab1a0016 *To purchase my cookbook vol 1, click link https://www.blurb.com/b/9452561-catherine-s-plates **To purchase my cookbook vol 2, click here https://www.blurb.com/b/10367334-catherine-s-plates-cookbook ***To purchase my cookbook vol 3, click here https://www.blurb.com/b/11248440-catherine-s-plates-3rd-edition-2022 ***My Amazon StoreFront https://www.amazon.com/shop/catherinesplates (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) ***Follow me on Social Media Facebook @ https://facebook.com/catherinesplates/ YouTube @ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuvgtfqhHTKI5kymcLKeyxg Pinterest @ https://www.pinterest.com/CatherinesPlates/ TikTok @ https://www.tiktok.com/@catherinesplates Rumble @ https://rumble.com/c/c-1642522
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hello everyone and welcome back to
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another Christmas show it's appetizers
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today I'm going to show you how to make
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two festive cheese balls they will be
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delicious and they will look so pretty
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on your serving platter with crackers
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one is going to be a reindeer another
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one's going to be an ornament these are
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going to be fun you guys we're going to
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start the first one which is going to be
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the reindeer one and we're going to
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start with two packages of cream cheese
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bring these to room temperature make
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them nice and soft you can leave them on
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your counter for like an hour to do
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that or you can just take them out
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straight out of your refrigerator put
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them into a microwave safe
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bowl and put them in the microwave just
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you know 15 20 seconds give it a check
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make sure it's nice and
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soft we don't want them
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runny just soft make them nice
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pliable so we can mix all the good stuff
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in them okay you guys I'm so happy CU
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it's Christmas time and I got lots of
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good things coming your
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way yeah we're super
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excited now these are 8 oz blocks two of
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them there's two to the cream cheese we
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we're going to add 13 cup of sour
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cream kind of even that
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out here we
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go okay we're going to beat the cream
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cheese and sour cream together until
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it's nice and
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smooth that way we can incorporate the
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other ingredients
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oo perfect cheese
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balls when you're decorating your tree
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probably everybody already has their
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tree up right I know I
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do all right it's nice and
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smooth we're going to add in 8 oz of a
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shredded cheddar
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cheese I got an 8 oz block here because
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I want to put some fresh cheese in here
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and we're going to shred it up I'm just
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going to cut it up into pieces that'll
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fit into my Shredder I lock it to my
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countertop put my cheese
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[Music]
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in and
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great yeah look at that wo yes I'm going
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to turn it around so you can see that
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there we
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go just lock it on the counter
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and start
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shredding there we
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go okay we're going to add it in to our
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cream cheese mix
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here yeah fresh
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cheese stuff's good let's give it a
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try yep can't beat it we're going to add
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something else
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ranch seasoning
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packet all right we're going to add
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that we're going to go back in with the
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hand
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mixer blend this all
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together oh smells good in there we're
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going to turn it off we're going to get
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a spatula small spatula and we're going
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to get all that mixture out of our beers
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those pretty thick but it needs to be to
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hold its
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shape like a cheese
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ball and we'll do the second one of
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course we got to give it a
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try make sure your flavors are where you
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want them now you don't have to use the
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whole pack of the ranch seasoning
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dressing mix you could use as much as
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you want you can put half in there give
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it a taste after you've mixed it all
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together and if you feel like you need
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the rest and you can add the rest this
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is a 1 oz package 28 G
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all right let's give that a
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try oh my goodness where are the
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crackers I'm going to bring over some
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cing wrap that way we can start forming
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the ball we're going to lay out two
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sheets want to kind of
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overlap the second sheet on top of the
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first sheet there you're going to take
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your mixture we're going to put it in
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the center
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all right we're going to take this wrap
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now and we're going to form a ball now
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it is going to be flat on the bottom cuz
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it's going to sit on a serving platter
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anyway okay we're going to place this
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cheese ball in the refrigerator for
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about 30 minutes to 45 minutes till it
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solidifies up a little bit and that way
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it's easy to handle in the meantime we
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are going to start the second cheese
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ball which will be our ornament and it's
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going to involve pomegranate seeds
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you're only going to need one package of
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cream cheese for this pomegranate
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ornament cheese
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ball again make sure it's nice and
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softened this is going to have a
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different flavor profile because of the
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pomegranates because it's more of a
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fruity flavor but it's going to have
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some other flavors to really offset that
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so one block softened cream cheese which
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is 8 oz
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to that we are going to add
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in 4 oz of white cheddar cheese I'm
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doing the white because the orange will
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just kind of show through and wouldn't
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be as pretty with the
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pomegranat seriously sharp white cheddar
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cheese I'm going to go ahead and shred
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it
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up now it's really easy you just push
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the button back here pop off the
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handle this comes out that's a piece and
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then then just push the button this part
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comes out and that's your
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pieces all right we're going to add this
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to our cream
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[Music]
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cheese now this is a key component to
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our cheese ball is the green onion it's
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going to show up a lot of the green
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through the cheese ball which will be
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pretty with the red pomegranate plus
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it'll add a nice little Zing to our
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mixture so I've taken three green onions
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and I'm going to chop it all the way
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from the dark green into the white it's
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a very festive cheese
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ball hey he's here hey go he wasn't here
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for the first one so I was moving around
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quite a
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lot let's add it to our cheese
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we're going to go ahead and incorporate
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some pecans and they're going to go into
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the
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mixture you want to make sure that
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they're
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chopped sometimes over spill is a good
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thing sometimes we're going to take some
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salt it's always good we need some
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saltiness quarter of a teaspoon all
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right we're going in with one more time
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like two
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pinches we're going to take our electric
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hand mixer going to go in and we're
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going to blend This
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Together get a spatula and then we'll
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just clear out the
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beaters I forgot to give that a try I'm
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going to go in right now you want to
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make sure that you have enough salt in
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there that's good all
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right can't wait to get the pomeg grants
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on it all right we're just going to make
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sure that everything is combined down in
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here and we're going to do what we did
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with the first
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one so we're going to lay some plastic
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wrap down we're going to put this in the
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to the center of it and form a
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ball there we go do the best you can
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doesn't that look delicious M all right
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just use the sides of your plastic wrap
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or you can take another sheet of it and
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help form your
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ball and then we're going to wrap it
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up all right we're going to place him in
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the refrigerator we'll bring the other
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one out and start creating that reindeer
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one I'm going to take two cups of
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chopped pecans and I'm just going to
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break them down even further into my
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food processor here
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that should be good right there now this
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is just my small one it just
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pulses now you don't want a fine Crump
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you just want tiny little pieces I'll
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bring you up here and show you what that
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looks like right
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here all right that's what it looks like
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I'm going to put this into a kind of a
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large narrow
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Bowl kind of go up the sides with
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it we're going to take the cheese ball
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we pulled out of the
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refrigerator and we're going to place it
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into our
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beans I'm just going to go around the
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sides and then press into the
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ball the pecans that's why I push it up
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on the
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sides and then just keep pressing okay
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you're going to place it on your serving
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platter now let's turn it into a
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reindeer we're going to take two
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pretzels I'm going to show you this kind
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that you need you want the twist the big
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ones like this so we're going to put one
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right here these are the
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antlers and then we'll do one on this
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side I'm using black olives that are
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pitted for the eyeballs we're going to
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place it one right here now I'm going to
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use a toothpick to secure it and I'm
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going to go all the way as far in as I
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can with it there we go
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I'm going to do the same on this
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side that way it'll hold it
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[Music]
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in we got a cherry tomato we're going to
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kind of press it
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in we're going to secure that with a
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toothpick what do y'all think of my
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reindeer cheese ball a he festive now to
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decorate our pomegranate ornament cheese
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ball we're going to use a kind of a
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medium Bowl got some
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pomegranat they usually come in a cup
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like this if you can find it place the
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ball in the bowl and then we're going to
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sprinkle on top and then just kind of
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press in take a little bit of time we're
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going to take some Rosemary sprigs take
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some of the leaves I'm just going pop it
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off of
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there pop it in every so often give it
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that nice festive
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look let's dive in the reindeer first
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got my little cheese knife my cracker
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let me go
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in what a fun reindeer let's try the
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pomegranate wow those green onions in
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there make it that's delicious I love
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the little burst from the pomegranate
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seeds which one are you making or maybe
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you're making them both all right you
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guys give me a thumbs up make sure you
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comment down below happy holidays Merry
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Christmas to everybody stay tuned cuz we
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got a lot more coming before Christmas
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is over I'll see y'all in the next
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episode bye
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