Name: Gingered Cream Cheese Grapes
Yield: Makes 30 grapes
Ingredients: 6 ounces cream cheese, softened; 2 tablespoons finely chopped crystallized ginger (available at specialty foods shops and some supermarkets); 30 green seedless grapes; 1 cup pecans, toasted lightly, cooled completely, and chopped fine

Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less but requires additional unattended time.

Recipe information

Yield
Makes 30 grapes

Ingredients

6 ounces cream cheese, softened

2 tablespoons finely chopped crystallized ginger (available at specialty foods shops and some supermarkets)

30 green seedless grapes

1 cup pecans, toasted lightly, cooled completely, and chopped fine

Preparation

In a bowl cream together the cream cheese and the ginger. Put 1 teaspoon of the mixture in the palm of one hand and roll it around a grape, using both palms to coat the grape completely. Coat the remaining grapes in the same manner and on a wax-paper-lined tray chill them for 15 minutes. Roll the cheese-coated grapes in the pecans coating them completely, and chill them until the coating is firm.