{"id":18178,"date":"2025-07-29T08:50:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T12:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inseasonezine.com\/home\/?p=18178"},"modified":"2025-07-30T12:41:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T16:41:28","slug":"peanut-butter-pretzel-cheeseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inseasonezine.com\/home\/peanut-butter-pretzel-cheeseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Peanut Butter-Pretzel Cheeseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"https:\/\/inseasonezine.com\/home\/wp-content\/gallery\/recipes\/PeanutButterPretzelCheeseball.jpg\" alt=\"Peanut Butter-Pretzel Cheeseball\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"icoDL\" src=\"https:\/\/inseasonezine.com\/home\/wp-content\/images\/ico_Print.png\" alt=\"download\" title=\"Print Recipe\" onClick=\"window.print()\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/inseasonezine.com\/home\/peanut-butter-pretzel-cheeseball\/email\/\" title=\"Email This Post\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-EmailIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/inseasonezine.com\/home\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-email\/images\/ico_email.png\" alt=\"Email This Post\" title=\"Email This Post\" style=\"border: 0px;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"recTitle\">Peanut Butter-Pretzel Cheeseball<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"recPrep\">Prep: 15 minutes plus chilling \u2022 Serves: 12<\/span> <!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"recIngre\"><span>1 <\/span>package (8 ounces) <strong>Philadelphia original cream cheese<\/strong>, softened<br \/>\n<span>3\/4 <\/span>cup powdered sugar<br \/>\n<span>1\/2 <\/span>cup creamy peanut butter<br \/>\n<span>1\/2 <\/span>teaspoon vanilla extract<br \/>\n<span>1\/4 <\/span>cup mini chocolate chips<br \/>\n<span>1\/4 <\/span>cup peanut butter chips<br \/>\n<span>4-1\/2 <\/span>cups pretzel mini twists<br \/>\n<span>\t<\/span>Pear slices, graham crackers and\/or vanilla wafer cookies for dipping (optional)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"recPrep\"><span>1.<\/span> In large bowl, with mixer on medium speed, beat cream cheese, sugar, peanut butter and vanilla extract until smooth; fold in 2 tablespoons each chocolate and peanut butter chips. Transfer cheese mixture to large piece of plastic wrap; shape into a ball, wrap with plastic wrap and refrigerate at least 4 hours or until ball holds shape. Makes about 2 cups.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"recPrep\"><span>2.<\/span>In food processor, pulse 1-1\/2 cups pretzels until large crumbs form. Transfer crumbs to wide shallow bowl; stir in remaining 2 tablespoons each chocolate and peanut butter chips. Makes about 1 cup.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"recPrep\"><span>3.<\/span>Remove plastic wrap from cheeseball; press pretzel mixture into cheeseball to coat all sides. Rewrap with plastic wrap; refrigerate overnight or until firm.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"recPrep\"><span>4.<\/span>Serve cheeseball with remaining 3 cups pretzels, and pears, graham crackers and\/or vanilla wafer cookies, if desired.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"recNut\"><br \/>\nApproximate nutritional values per serving (2-1\/2 tablespoons cheeseball, 1\/4 cup pretzels):<br \/>\n295 Calories, 16g Fat (7g Saturated), 19mg Cholesterol, 379mg Sodium,<br \/>\n34g Carbohydrates, 2g Fiber, 14g Sugars, 11g Added Sugars, 7g Protein<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"recPrep\"><span>Chef Tip:<\/span><br \/>\nTo help cheese mixture set into ball shape, place in small, dome-shape bowl with high sides after wrapping in plastic wrap. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"recPrep\"><span>Smart Swaps:<\/span><br \/>\nUse graham crackers or chopped nuts for the coating. Nut-free? Swap in sunflower seed butter. Roll into mini cheeseballs for easy grab-and-go bites.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peanut Butter-Pretzel Cheeseball Prep: 15 minutes plus chilling \u2022 Serves: 12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[89],"class_list":["post-18178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01_appetizers-snacks","category-recipes","tag-25fall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inseasonezine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inseasonezine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inseasonezine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inseasonezine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inseasonezine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inseasonezine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18212,"href":"https:\/\/inseasonezine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18178\/revisions\/18212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inseasonezine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inseasonezine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inseasonezine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}