Best Olive Balls Recipes

OLIVE CHEESE BALLS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a medium bowl, combine cheese, butter, flour and cayenne with a fork until a dough-like form forms. Scoop up a tablespoon of the dough and enclose one olive with dough. Roll into a ball and place on baking sheet. Repeat process using up remaining dough. Sprinkle with paprika. Bake for 15 minutes or until golden. Serve warm.

OLIVE CHEESE BALLS

Steps:

• Place Cheddar cheese, flour, and butter in a food processor. Blend until cheese is finely ground and a crumbly dough forms.
• Wrap each olive with a piece of the cheesy dough, covering the olive completely. Place olive balls on a cookie sheet and freeze for 1 hour.
• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Spread frozen olive balls on a baking sheet.
• Bake in the preheated oven until lightly browned, 15 to 20 minutes. Let cool for 5 minutes before serving. Eat with caution as olives will still be hot.

CHEDDAR AND OLIVE BALLS

Steps:

• Allow cheese to sit out until it is at room temperature. In a large bowl, mix together the cheese, butter and paprika using a pastry blender. Gradually mix in flour, first using the pastry blender, then using your hands. Mix until the dough pulls together. It should form a solid ball with a smooth appearance, but have a crumbly texture when pulled apart. If dough appears too dry, add more shredded cheese.
• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Pinch off a small piece of dough, and cover an olive with it. Roll gently between your palms to smooth and seal the olive inside the ball. Place onto an ungreased cookie sheet and repeat with remaining dough and olives. Place the tray of covered olives into the refrigerator for 10 minutes to firm up.
• Bake for 20 to 25 minutes in the preheated oven, or until browned. Serve hot or at room temperature.

OLIVE BALLS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400°F.
• Stir together cheese, butter and Worcestershire sauce; stir in Bisquick mix until dough forms (work with hands if necessary). Pat olives completely dry on paper towel. Shape 1 teaspoon dough around each olive. Place about 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake about 10 minutes or until light golden brown.

OLIVE CHEESE BALLS

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 400 deg. Combine all ingredients except olives. Pinch off a small amount of dough and form into a 1-inch ball. Press an olive into the center of the dough ball. Wrap mixture around olive. Be sure the olive is completely covered. Place on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 10 - 12 minutes. These freeze well unbaked.

OLIVE CHEESE BALLS

Steps:

• Lay the olives on a paper towel-lined plate and gently pat them dry.
• Slice a small piece of cream cheese about 1/4 inch thick and place 1 olive in the center of the slice. Wrap the cream cheese around the olive and roll it between your hands so it is completely covered and forms a smooth ball. Repeat until all of the olives are covered in cream cheese.
• Mix the walnuts and parsley in a bowl or shallow dish. Roll each ball in the mixture to completely coat. Refrigerate the coated olives, uncovered, until chilled, at least 1 hour. These can be made a day in advance.
• Slice in half before serving.

CHEESE OLIVE BALLS

Steps:

• In a medium-size bowl, cream butter.
• Mix in flour, cheese, paprika, cumin, and hot sauce.
• Cover bowl and refrigerate at least an hour.
• Dry olives on paper towels.
• With a ball of cheese mixture that is close in size to the olive, flatten the cheese mixture in your palm, plop the olive in the center, work the mixture up around the olive, and then very gently roll it around between your palms.
• Make sure the cheese mixture completely seals in the olive.
• Repeat with remaining olives.
• Place the cheese-wrapped olives on a parchment-lined baking sheet and place in freezer until frozen. If you are planning to bake immediately, place in the freezer for about 15 minutes.
• Once frozen, you can store in resealable plastic bags in the freezer until you are read to bake them.
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
• Prior to baking, remove olive from the freezer and allow to stand at room temperature for approximately 15 minute (while the oven is heating).
• Place olives on a baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool to slightly warm.
• Serve at room temperature to slightly warm.

OLIVE CHEESE BALLS

Steps:

• Mix the cheese, flour and butter like pie crust.
• Shape into balls smaller than walnuts.
• Press an olive into the center of each, covering completely.
• Bake 10-15 minutes at 400 degrees.
• Serve as finger food.
• Makes 30.
• Can be frozen before baking.
• Best served warm.

CHEESY OLIVE BALLS

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Lightly grease a cookie sheet and set aside.
• 2. Cream together butter and cheese.
• 3. Add flour and cayenne to creamed mixture. Knead with hands until smooth.
• 4. Take 1 teaspoon of dough, gently roll into a ball, flatten and wrap around an olive. Do this for all of the olives.
• 5. Place on prepared cookie sheet. Bake for 15 minutes or until golden brown.
• 6. Cool on wire rack
• 7. Keeps 1 week in an airtight container. Store in a cool place.

AUNT NANCY'S OLIVE CHEESE BALLS

Steps:

• Blend cheese and flour together. Add butter and mix thoroughly into dough. Mold 1 teaspoon of dough around each olive. Place olive balls on ungreased cookie sheet and sprinkle with paprika. Chill for one hour. Bake at 400 degrees for 15-20 minutes.

OLIVE CHEESE BALLS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F.
• Mix cheese and flour together.
• Mix in margarine. Work with hand if it seems dry.
• Mold 1 teaspoon of dough around each olive.
• Shape into a ball.
• Place on ungreased cookie sheet.
• Cover and refrigerate at least 1 hour.
• Bake until set, 15 to 20 minutes.

OLIVE CHEESE BALLS

Steps:

• 1. Stir together cheese and flour in large bowl. Stir in butter thoroughly. (If dough seems dry, work with hands.) 2. Mold 1 teaspoon dough around each olive; shape into ball. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Cover and refrigerate at least 1 hour but no longer than 24 hours. 3. Heat oven to 400ºF. Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until light brown.

OLIVE BALLS

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, or food processor, mix together the cream cheese, seasoning salt, and 2 tablespoons of juice from the olive jar until well blended. Set aside in the refrigerator to firm up, about 30 minutes.
• When the cheese mixture is firm, pack enough of the cream cheese mixture around the outside of each olive so that it is completely covered. Roll each olive ball in chopped pecans, and return them to the refrigerator until firm.
• To serve, cut each olive ball in half, and arrange on a serving tray cut side up.

OLIVE BALLS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• In a medium bowl stir together the cheese, butter and Worcestershire Sauce.
• Stir in Bisquick mix or clone recipe.
• Pat olives dry.
• Wrap 1 teaspoon of dough around 1 olive.
• Place on cookie sheet.
• Repeat.
• Bake for 10 minutes.
• Serve warm.

CHEDDAR OLIVE BALLS

Steps:

• Mix ingredients to form a soft dough. Form around green olives. Bake at 400 degrees for 12-15 minutes. Makes about 140. Can be frozen and used as desired.

OLIVE BALLS

Steps:

• 1. Heat oven to 400 degrees F. 2. Stir together cheese, butter, and Worcestershire sauce; stir in Bisquick mix until dough forms (work with hands if necessary). Pat olives completley dry on paper towel. Shape 1 tsp dough around each oive. Place about 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheet. 3. Bake about 10 minutes or until light golden brown.

OLIVE BALLS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400°F.
• Stir together cheese, butter and Worcestershire sauce; stir in Bisquick mix until dough forms (work with hands if necessary). Pat olives completely dry on paper towel. Shape 1 teaspoon dough around each olive. Place about 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake about 10 minutes or until light golden brown.