Sausage Link Cheese Balls

"Not your typical biscuit mix sausage cheese balls, I developed this recipe as a starting point for a variety of tasty tidbits wrapped in butter-rich cheese pastry."
 
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Ready In:
22mins
Ingredients:
4
Serves:
8-10
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ingredients

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directions

  • Combine flour and grated cheese in workbowl of food processor with mixing blade.
  • Gradually add just enough butter, teaspoon by teaspoon, using pulse mode, until dough forms a ball, and is not crumbly.
  • Reserve cheese pastry.
  • Cut each frozen, cooked sausage link into 4 equal pieces.
  • While still chilled, wrap each with enough of the cheese dough to form a walnut-sized ball.
  • Preheat oven to 350.
  • Place prepared sausage cheese balls on ungreased baking sheet, (about 20 per standard baking sheet), and bake 10-12 minutes, until golden brown.
  • Do not overcook.
  • Cool just a few minutes on paper towels before serving.
  • Variations: Be creative with fillings, which could include small, cooked meatballs, button mushrooms, cocktail olives, cubes of ham or bacon.
  • Vary the cheese, using Muenster, Monterey Jack, Gouda, Swiss or other favorites.
  • The basic dough and sausage make this salty enough that unsalted butter is best here.
  • You may flavor dough with dillweed, sage, thyme, cracked black pepper, curry or chili powder or experiment adding small amounts of deli mustard and the like.

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I am the oldest daughter in a blended family of 11. I've been a Registered Nurse for more than 15 years, working swing or night shifts in a variety of settings. I'm a completely self taught cook, and only wish the super easy, Mr. Food type of cookbooks were around when I was struggling! For fun I love to read, listen to music or create new taste sensations for my small family and (lucky) co-workers. I've written almost 750 reviews on music/books/cookware and more, (including probbably 100 easy recipes), at Epinions.com, in the past 5 years. You'll find me tending my backyard container garden, (avocado, mango, guava, pomegranate, artichoke, grape tomato, herbs, shallots, Flame grapes, Golden Delicious apples, blueberries, Pluots, Apriums, Peachcots and so on), or playing with our puppy and 2 kitties-all 3 rescue animals from various shelters.
 
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