Sweet, flavorful and super easy, this Pumpkin Cheese Ball is a fun party dessert that everyone will love. Made with readily available ingredients, this is perfect for any fall gathering.
Start by beating the cream cheese and butter together until smooth with a hand or stand mixer.
Once smooth, add in the pumpkin puree and beat until well combined. Continue by adding the powdered sugar in small amounts.
Once all the powdered sugar is well combined, add in the pumpkin pie spice and brown sugar.
Once well combined add in the spice cake mix 1/3 cup at a time. The mixture will not seem very firm but will firm up when it is set.
Once all of the ingredients are well combined, grab a large piece of plastic wrap. Place mixture in the center, wrap mixture very tightly into the shape of a ball.
Place into the refrigerator for 2 hours to set.
Once set, take out of the refrigerator and unwrap. Place the ball on a platter or tray.
Melt ½ cup of the chocolate chips and drizzle on the top of the ball.
With the remaining chocolate chips, place on top of the melted chocolate before it hardens. Serve with graham crackers and vanilla wafers.
Notes
You can use other cake mixes in this recipe such as vanilla, chocolate or gingerbread.
If you do not want to use the cake mix as is, you can heat treat it in the oven for about 7-10 minutes.
Use any of your favorite dippers for this recipe, see some of my suggestions above.
Top this with other toppings, again see above on how to do this.
You can easily double this recipe to save one for later.
This can be frozen, see above on how to do that.
You can swap out the pumpkin spice for cinnamon and nutmeg.
Make sure you use pumpkin puree and not pumpkin pie filling.