Festive Apple-Cheese Log Recipe

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With apples, pecans and cinnamon, this fun spread, from Anna Mayer of Fort Branch, Indiana, is almost like dessert.

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Festive Apple-Cheese Log Recipe

Prep: 15 min. + chilling

Yield: 10 Servings

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Ingredients

1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup finely chopped tart apple
1/4 cup chopped pecans
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Additional chopped pecans, toasted Vanilla wafers, sugar cookies or assorted crackers

Directions

In a bowl, combine cream cheese, apple, pecans and cinnamon. Shape into a log; roll in toasted pecans. Cover and refrigerate. Remove from the refrigerator 20 minutes before serving. Serve with vanilla wafers, cookies or crackers. Yield: 1 cheese log.

Nutritional Facts 1 serving (2 tablespoons) equals 104 calories, 10 g fat (5 g saturated fat), 25 mg cholesterol, 67 mg sodium, 2 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 2 g protein.

Originally published as Festive Apple-Cheese Log in Taste of Home December/January 2000, p8

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Reviewed on Dec. 25, 2012 by saw-whet

Easy to make and pretty. I used 1/2 of a honey crisp apple, organic cream cheese, and 1 cup of toasted pecans for the outside. (For toasting nuts, I place them on a cookie sheet in a 350 oven for 4 minutes, and use a timer.) Served with ritz crackers. My guests said it was very good.