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🍽️ Cream Cheese Spiders with Pepper and Walnuts

505 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

Ingredients

• cream cheese, plain 400 g
• salt pinch
• pepper, black ground 5 tbsp
• herbs of Provence, dried 1 tsp
• walnut kernels 200 g
• pretzel sticks 16 pcs.
• oil 1 tbsp
• currants, fresh 1 tbsp

Instructions

1. 1. Put the cream cheese into a bowl.
2. 2. Stir the cream cheese mixture until smooth.
3. 3. Season the mixture with salt, pepper, and Provençal herbs.
4. 4. Place the cream cheese mixture in the refrigerator for about 1 hour.
5. 5. Finely chop the walnuts.
6. 6. Mix the chopped walnuts with pepper on a deep plate.
7. 7. Halve the pretzel sticks.
8. 8. Wash the redcurrants.
9. 9. Carefully strip the redcurrants from the stems.
10. 10. Rub your hands with a little oil.
11. 11. Shape about 8 balls from the chilled cream cheese mixture.
12. 12. Roll the cream cheese balls in the nut-pepper mixture.
13. 13. Press the balls down slightly.
14. 14. Press 2 redcurrants into each ball to form eyes.
15. 15. Place the cream cheese balls on a plate.
16. 16. Insert 8 halved pretzel sticks into each ball to form legs.
17. 17. Keep the spiders in the refrigerator until serving.

Nutrition per serving

• kcal: 505
• Protein: 13 g · Fett/Fat: 38 g · Carbs: 32 g