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This Sausage Cream Cheese Balls recipe is a double-duty recipe! It’s an easy appetizer to serve at parties, and you can serve them for brunch the next morning, too!
The holiday season is officially here! Every year I try to enjoy the true meaning of the season and spend quality time with my family. Then the hustle and bustle begin and I find myself stressed to the max with everything I need to do. Sound familiar? Tell me I am not alone in this?! What can we do to overcome this and truly make it through the hectic holiday season with our sanity intact?
My number one tip for you is to start with the food and simplify your entertaining menu. That’s why I turn to trusted, high-quality ingredients like Farmer John® Breakfast Sausage!
My family is coming to my house for Thanksgiving this year and will be here for a week. So I need to prepare not only Thanksgiving dinner but also some other meals while my family is in town. I’m a planner and I like to plan early.
While I was doing my grocery shopping at my local Smith’s, I walked past the meat section where I immediately saw breakfast sausage and inspiration hit! The inspiration came to simplify my meal preparations while the family is in town by making one recipe that can be served at two different meals. And that’s where this Sausage Cream Cheese Balls recipe comes in!
I knew that I could use the breakfast sausage to make an amazing sausage and cheese balls recipe that I can serve as an appetizer at Thanksgiving and as the main dish at breakfast the next morning! It does not get much easier than that folks! What’s even better than that is this recipe for sausage cheese balls is not just a Thanksgiving menu item, you can literally make it any time of the year. It’s great for the big game, Christmas morning, Mother’s Day Brunch, Saturday mornings with your kids, or any other get together.
So what are you waiting for? Head to your local Kroger grocery store and look for Farmer John’s saving on Smith’s website to recreate this recipe yourself!
SAUSAGE CHEESE BALLS QUESTIONS ANSWERED:
How do you tell if sausage balls are done?
After baking the sausage balls for about 18 minutes, check on them. Once the tops are slightly browned then you know your job is done and they are done cooking!
How do you store sausage balls?
Keep the sausage balls in an airtight container. When stored this way they will stay fresh in the fridge for about 2 days or up to one month in the freezer.
How do you reheat refrigerated sausage balls?
If you are reheating sausage balls from the fridge simply loosely wrap them in a paper towel, and microwave for 30 seconds. If you are reheating sausage balls from the freezer follow the same process but microwave them for 1 minute instead.
How to make Sausage and Cheese Balls:
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F and line a baking sheet with foil.
- Next, place flour, baking powder, salt, and pepper in a food processor and pulse for 3 seconds. Then add butter and pulse for another 10 seconds.
- Now add sausage, cream cheese, cheddar, and milk and pulse until combined. I am using the 12oz package of Farmer John® Breakfast Sausage, but when shopping at Smith’s look for the 8oz package, too!
- Finally, using a 4 Tablespoon scoop, scoop sausage mixture and roll it into a ball before placing it on the baking sheet and bake for 18-20 minutes.
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Sausage Cream Cheese Balls
Ingredients
FOR SAUSAGE BALLS:
- 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
- 3 Tablespoons butter cut into 12 small cubes
- 12 ounces Farmer John® Breakfast Sausage
- 4 ounces cream cheese softened
- 1 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese
- ⅓ cup milk
FOR THE MUSTARD DIPPING SAUCE:
- 1 cup sour cream
- ¼ cup dijon mustard
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Instructions
MAKE SAUSAGE BALLS:
- Move oven rack to the middle position and preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Line 2 rimmed baking sheets with foil or parchment paper; set aside.
- Place flour, baking powder, salt, and pepper in a food processor and pulse for 3 seconds, or until combined.
- Sprinkle butter pieces over flour and pulse for 10 seconds or until the mixture looks like a coarse meal.
- Add sausage, cream cheese, cheddar, and milk.
- Pulse for 6-8 pulses, or until combined (make sure you don’t over-mix or else the sausage balls will be tough when cooked).
- Use a 2-tablespoon scoop to scoop the sausage mixture. Roll mixture into a ball and then place it on the prepared baking sheets, spacing balls 1 ½ inches apart. Repeat with remaining sausage mixture.
- Bake for 18-20 minute, rotating pans halfway through baking, or until golden brown. Let the sausage balls cool slightly before serving.
FOR MUSTARD DIPPING SAUCE:
- While the sausage balls bake, make the sauce. Mix all of the ingredients together in a small bowl. Chill until you’re ready to use.
SERVE:
- Serve the sausage balls warm with mustard dipping sauce.
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These sound absolutely delicios and would love to make these but our grocery stores up here do not carry Farmer John sausage, but we do have Hillshire Farms or Bob Evans. I also don’t own a food processor so would have to mix everything by hand. Would that be okay?
Hi Lisa, yes, those product swaps will work. Also, hand mixing with be okay as well.
You just can never go wrong with sausage and cream cheese. Please pass me a meatball!
Can you even have a holiday party without sausage balls? I don’t think so! These are super yummy!
This would be such a fun game day appetizer! Can’t wait to try it this bowl season!
Being able to entertain a group of people with these AND serve them for brunch the next day makes this recipe an absolute must to have on hand! Great tip on keeping the balls in airtight containers – very helpful.
Jillian, this is genius! So simple, and I simply portion the meatball with cookie scoop. They are done in a jiffy and, well, gone in a jiffy too. 😀
These sound very flavorful and love the dipping sauce that goes with them. A perfect bite.
My boys devoured Almost all of these before the party even started!! So good!
Thanks for replying!
Theese look so good I will make some as snacks for family night .
Yummy! I could eat these right now!
These look so good and easy enough that I can do it.
Nice new take on Sausage Balls.
These look easy enough and two of my faves mingled together. Yummo!!
These would be great for brunch!
Can I make these using ground sausage instead of links! They looks so much better than the Bisquick sausage balls.
Thanks!
Hi Jane, you absolutely can use ground sausage.