Chocolate Chip Cheese Ball

By Stina

Ingredients

• 1 pkg (8 ounce) cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 c butter, softened (do not use margarine)
• 3/4 c confectioners' sugar
• 2 Tbsp brown sugar
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 c miniature chocolate chips
• 3/4 c pecans, chopped

Preparation

Step 1

In mixer, beat cream cheese and butter until creamy. Add sugars and vanilla and mix until well-combined. Stir in chocolate chips. Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours. Gather cold mixture into a ball and cover with plastic wrap. Chill another hour. Roll ball in pecans just before serving.

2. Usually, I skip the ball stage and serve this as a spread without the pecans. It's great on chocolate, cinnamon and honey graham crackers, vanilla wafers, shortbread or butter cookies.