Gingered Cream Cheese Grapes

Total Time: 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins

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

Recipe

• 1 in a bowl cream together the cream cheese and the ginger.
• 2 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.
• 3 coat the remaining grapes in the same manner and on a wax-paper-lined tray chill them for 15 minutes.
• 4 roll the cheese-coated grapes in the pecans coating them completely, and chill them until the coating is firm.