Lunch: Nacho Jack-o'-Lantern Cheese Ball

Ingredients

Two 8-ounce packages cream cheese, at room temperature
1 1/2 cups shredded Cheddar
3 tablespoons minced onions
2 tablespoons prepared salsa (your favorite kind will do)
2 teaspoons ground cumin
1 teaspoon minced jalapeno (without seeds, unless you want it spicy, then include the seeds)
12 Doritos, original flavor, crushed
1 nice-looking stem of a bell pepper (reserve the pepper for another use)
Black bean chips, crackers or crudite, for serving

Instructions

Put the cream cheese, Cheddar, onions, salsa, cumin and jalapeno into the bowl of a mixer, and blend thoroughly. Form into a pumpkin-like shape, and refrigerate until firm, about 2 hours.
Before serving, roll the cheese ball in the crushed Doritos. Arrange the cheese ball on a plate, and press the bell pepper stem into the top - it should like a mini pumpkin stem.
You can serve the pumpkin as-is, or break off pieces of black bean chips to form a Jack-o'-lantern face. The chip pieces should adhere to the pumpkin cheese ball if you gently press them onto it, but you can also stick them on using a very small dab of the cheese ball mixture on the back of the black bean chip features; this will act like glue. Serve the cheese ball with black bean chips, crackers or crudites.

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