Stilton Date Dip
Created by TwisSis on January 15, 2015
- Servings: 14
- Prep Time: 5m
- Cook Time: 5m
- Recipe #16763
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Stilton cheese, crumbled(or best-quality blue cheese at room temp & crumbled)
- 16 ounces cream cheese (at room temp, two 8 ounce packages)
- Salt, 1 dash
- Fresh ground pepper
- Cayenne pepper, 1 dash (optional)
- 3 to 5 tablespoons heavy cream
- 1 cup dates, diced (seeded & diced small)
- 8 slices (8 ounces) bacon (thick slice preferred, crisp-fried & crumbled)
How to Make
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Step 1: Using an electric mixer (blender or hand-held blender), combine both cheeses w/salt & pepper.
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Step 2: When blended, add cream until dip reaches desired consistency.
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Step 3: Fold in dates & bacon. Serve w/dippers and/or crackers of choice.
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NOTE Although the recipe did not suggest this, I feel a chill time to allow the flavors to develop would be best & I think it would also be best if allowed to approach room temp b4 being served. My thoughts, but your choices
Nutritional Facts
- Serving Size: 1 (66.3 g)
- Calories 250.5
- Total Fat - 19.8 g
- Saturated Fat - 9.7 g
- Cholesterol - 60.1 mg
- Sodium - 412.8 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 9.6 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.8 g
- Sugars - 7.7 g
- Protein - 9.3 g
- Calcium - 76.2 mg
- Iron - 0.5 mg
- Vitamin C - 0.1 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg