MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Two cheese-focused recipes can elevate local Super Bowl gatherings. Angie Edge, manager at Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin, joined us Friday, Feb. 6 to showcase the appetizers.
The Spicy Game Day Cheese Board combines pepper cheddar, jalapeño Havarti, wildfire blue and Cajun gouda with meats, pickles and spicy snacks.
- Ingredients: Henning Hatch Pepper Cheddar cheese, Roth Jalapeño Havarti cheese, Carr Valley Glacier Wildfire Blue Cheese, Delta Dream WisCajun Gouda cheese, landjaegers or meat snack sticks, sliced summer sausage, pickled jalapeño pepper slices, Eau Galle Cajun Cheese Curds, toothpicks, stone-ground mustard, pretzels, bread and butter pickles, smoked almonds, spicy pub snack mix and pickle relish.
- Instructions: Arrange the cheddar, havarti, blue cheese, gouda and landjaegers on a serving board. Arrange summer sausage on a serving plate. Thread jalapeño peppers, cheese curds and summer sausage on toothpicks and place on top. Serve with mustard, pretzels, pickles, almonds, snack mix and pickle relish.
The Bacon Sriracha Football Cheeseball mixes gouda and cream cheese with bacon, brown sugar and hot sauce, then gets shaped into a football and topped with mozzarella strips for laces.
- Ingredients: 1 pound thick-cut bacon, 1/4 cup packed brown sugar, 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes, 8 ounces Roth Gouda cheese shredded (2 cups), 1/2 package (4 ounces) Crystal Farms Original Cream Cheese softened, 2 tablespoons softened butter, 1 green onion chopped, 1 teaspoon soy sauce, 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder, 1/4 teaspoon pepper, Sriracha hot chili sauce to taste, 1 slice (1 ounce) Weyauwega Star Dairy Mozzarella cheese cut into thin strips and assorted vegetables and pretzels.
- Instructions: Heat oven to 400 degrees. Place a greased wire rack on an aluminum foil-lined rimmed baking sheet. Arrange bacon strips in a single layer on rack and rub with brown sugar. Sprinkle with red pepper flakes. Bake 15-20 minutes or until bacon is crisp. Cool completely. Crumble bacon, cover and refrigerate. Beat the gouda, cream cheese, butter, green onion, soy sauce, garlic powder, pepper and Sriracha to taste in a large bowl until combined. Transfer to plastic wrap and shape into a ball. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate 1 hour. Shape cheese ball into a football, rewrap and refrigerate at least 1 hour. Press bacon onto football just before serving. Place mozzarella on football for laces. Serve with vegetables and pretzels.
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