Pinecone cheeseballs for your Christmas party!

Ingredients

• 1 8 oz package cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 cup light mayonnaise
• 5 strips of bacon cooked crisp and crumbled
• 1 Tbsp diced green onion
• 1 tsp chopped fresh dill weed
• 1/8 tsp pepper
• 1 1/4 cup whole almonds toasted
• Fresh rosemary sprigs for garnish

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Spread almonds on a baking pan and bake for 10-15 minutes, stirring occasionally until golden. Let cool.
• Combine cream cheese and mayonnaise and mix well in a food processor or blender.
• Stir in the cooked bacon, green onion, dill weed and pepper.
• Cover and chill overnight.
• Shape the cheese mixture into two small pine cones on serving plate.
• Starting at the narrow end, place almonds into the cheese on a slight angle, forming rows.
• Garnish pine cone cheese ball with rosemary twigs to resemble pine needles.
• Serve with crackers.