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Hot Pepper Cream Cheese Recipe

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Pretty Hot Pepper Cream Cheese Recipe

I'm sure many of you have heard of serving hot pepper jelly over cream cheese as an easy appetizer.  How about sweet and spicy Pretty Hot Peppers over cream cheese?  Easy, elegant, and only two ingredients (three if you count the crackers).  Like it sweeter?  Try our Pretty Peppers.

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My children hate peppers, I try to disguise them as best as possible when I'm cooking, but they LOVE LOVE LOVE Cherchies® Pretty Hot Peppers and/or Cherchies® Pretty Peppers, especially served this way as an appetizer. They're perfect in eggs, casseroles, salads, crab cakes, dips, and so much more.  You need to try them too!  

Can't decide?  Try them both:)

Ingredients:  

Preparation

Spread cream cheese onto a plate.  Spoon the Pretty Hot Peppers or Pretty Peppers over top the cream cheese.  Or, be daring and dollop one half of the cream cheese with Pretty Peppers and the other half with Pretty Hot Peppers and let your guests decide:)  Enjoy!

Serve with crackers.  Easy Peasy...done! 

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Garlic, Balsamic & Herb Goat Cheese Pizza

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This recipe is perfect for a quick and easy gourmet lunch, dinner, or savory-sweet dessert.  The Balsamic Garlic Herb Jam enhances the pear and goat cheese in this rustic dish.  A definite must-try!

Ingredients

Preparation

Brush top surface of pizza dough with olive oil. Spread a layer of Balsamic Garlic Herb Jam on top of oil. Add goat cheese, sliced pears and pecans.  Bake in a 400 degrees F oven for 12-15 minutes.  Enjoy!

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Pretty Cream Cheese Recipe

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Pretty Cream Cheese Recipe

Pretty Cream Cheese Recipe

Many of you have heard of serving hot pepper jelly over cream cheese as an easy appetizer.  But what about sweet tangy Pretty Peppers over cream cheese?  With only two ingredients (three if you count the crackers), entertaining is easy and elegant.

Our children hate peppers, and when I am cooking, I try my best to disguise them, but they LOVE LOVE LOVE Cherchies® Pretty Peppers, served this way as an appetizer. Go figure!

Not only are these tasty ruby peppers a fabulous appetizer, they are also perfect in eggs, casseroles, salads, dips, and so much more.   (Check out our recipes for our Pretty Peppers).

So, what are you waiting for? You need to try this easy appetizer recipe today.

Comment below and share your favorite Pretty or Pretty Hot Pepper recipe.

As always, thank you for visiting!

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Ingredients:  

Preparation

Spread cream cheese onto a plate.  In honor of Valentine's Day, I shaped the cream cheese into a heart and spooned the Pretty Peppers over the top.  

Serve with crackers.  Easy Peasy...done! 

Or try it with our new spicier Pretty Hot Peppers, or be daring and dollop one half of the cream cheese with Pretty Peppers and the other half with Pretty Hot Peppers and let your guests decide:)  Enjoy!

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Muffuletta Cream Cheese Roll-Up Recipe

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Prep Time:  5 minutes  Difficulty: Easy

This easy, tasty appetizer is an ode to my recent trip to New Orleans—and my take on my new favorite sandwich: the muffuletta. It’s perfect for Mardi Gras, game day, or anytime you’re craving salty olives and salami (easy to omit for a vegetarian option), sweet roasted peppers, provolone, pepperoncini, and creamy cream cheese. Mouth watering yet?

My husband and I (plus a few friends) visited New Orleans—aka NOLA—for the first time and tried the most sinfully delicious muffuletta from Central Grocery in the French Quarter. This iconic, oversized sandwich is stacked with layers of ham, salami, cheese, and a bold olive salad. Seriously insane… in the best way (everything in moderation, right?).

These bite-sized morsels capture all those classic muffuletta flavors in appetizer form. Instead of a traditional olive salad, I grabbed green and black olives and provolone from my local grocery store’s olive bar (you can absolutely make your own), added salami, then finished it off with our sweet Pretty Peppers and spicy Hot Banana Pepper Mustard. Oh my—total flavor party.

If you try these, comment below and tell me what you think! And for more easy, delicious appetizer recipes, visit our blog at blog.cherchies.com. Thanks for stopping by :) We hope you’ll come back!

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Ingredients

  • 1 (8 oz.) package of cream cheese. softened

  • 1 Tablespoon (Tbsp) Cherchies® Hot Banana Pepper Mustard

  • 1/4 cup pitted green olives, chopped

  • 1/4 cup pitted black olives, chopped

  • 1/4 cup cubed Provolone, chopped

  • 1/4 cup salami, chopped

  • 1/2 jar Cherchies® Pretty Peppers, drained

  • 1/4 cup pepperoncini (seeds removed), chopped

  • 3 8" tortillas

Preparation

Mix the cream cheese and the Hot Banana Pepper Mustard together in a medium bowl.  Chop the olives, provolone, salami, and pepperoncini into small pieces (In the first picture the salami had not been chopped fine enough).  Mix in the olives, Provolone, salami, Pretty Peppers, and pepperoncini.

Generously spread cream cheese mixture over tortillas.  Roll up tortillas and wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes (you could slice immediately, but the roll-ups are easier to slice if chilled).  

Once roll-ups are chilled, slice into 1/2" slices.  Enjoy!

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