| Mix up a delicious beginning to the Christmas | | | | and serve it with your favorite crackers. |
| holiday with our Christmas Cheese Balls and | | | | Christmas Punch |
| Christmas Punch recipes. These recipes take only | | | | 3 pkgs. Black Cherry Kool-Aid |
| minutes to prepare. Keep the ingredients on stock | | | | 1 can unsweetened pineapple juice |
| to whip up something special for those | | | | 1 cup lemon juice |
| unexpected holiday drop-in guests. | | | | 3 cups sugar |
| Christmas Cheese Ball | | | | 2 liter bottles of ginger ale |
| 1 large pkg. Philly cream cheese | | | | Combine the Kool-Aid, pineapple juice, lemon juice |
| Green tops of 8-10 green onions | | | | and sugar in a large pitcher. Stir until all ingredients |
| 1 pkg. dried beef garlic powder | | | | are blended and sugar fully dissolved. Pour the |
| Worcestershire sauce 3-4 tablespoons | | | | punch base into a punch bowl and slowly add the |
| 1 cup cracker crumbs | | | | ginger ale. |
| Set your cream cheese out to soften. Chop the | | | | I mix up the concentrate and refrigerate it then |
| green tops of 8-10 green onions and pitch it in | | | | add the ginger ale just before serving so it has a |
| with the cream cheese. Now cut up the dried | | | | lot of fizz. Be careful when stirring as it will foam |
| beef into small pieces and add to the cream | | | | up and overflow your container if you stir it to |
| cheese mixture. Add a tablespoon of garlic | | | | fast or add the ginger ale too quickly - just like |
| powder and 3-4 tablespoons of Worcestershire | | | | any soda. If you want to mix it up per glass it is 1 |
| sauce (add little more if it is too stiff to mix). Mix | | | | 3 concentrate and 2/3 ginger ale to a single |
| it all together well, then form it into a large ball. | | | | serving. Warning: Black Cherry Kool-Aid can leave |
| Roll it in the crushed cracker crumbs to coat the | | | | a mean stain so don't let small children carry it |
| outside of the cheese ball. Refrigerate overnight | | | | around the house. |