Keto Cheddar Cheese & Bacon Balls — Recipe

These cheese and bacon balls aren’t just fantastic, they’re ketotastic! They’re loaded with smoky bacon and sharp cheddar cheese. Can you imagine the look on your guests faces when you put these on the holiday table? Oh, yes. You want these.

April 8 2017 by Anne Aobadia, photo by Emma Shevtzoff, nutritional review by Franziska Spritzler, RD, CDE in Recipes, Appetizer, Snack

USMetric

8 servingservings

Ingredients

5 oz. 140 g bacon
5 oz. (²⁄₃ cup) 140 g (150 ml) cream cheese
5 oz. (1¼ cups) 140 g (290 ml) cheddar cheese
2 oz. 55 g butter, at room temperature
½ tsp ½ tsp pepper (optional)
½ tsp ½ tsp chili flakes (optional)

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Instructions

Instructions are for 8 servings. Please modify as needed.

In a frying pan, fry the bacon until golden brown. Remove from the pan, and let cool completely on paper towels.
Crumble or chop the bacon into small pieces and place in a medium-sized bowl.
In a bigger bowl, mix the grease left over from frying the bacon with all the remaining ingredients by hand, or with an electric handmixer.
Place the big bowl in the fridge for 15 minutes to set.
Make 24 walnut-sized balls, using two spoons. Roll them in the crumbled bacon and serve.

Tip!

You can use any kind of grated flavorful cheese you prefer. If you don't eat bacon, you can roll the cheese balls in chopped herbs, grated parmesan cheese or chopped nuts. Let your imagination run wild!

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Hans
April 8 2017
Love the US/metric switch button for the ingredients.
Your photos always look fantastic.
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Ron
April 8 2017
How long do you think these could keep in a plastic container?
By the way, I check in with this site (as a member) every few days. Keep up the good work.
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Matt
April 11 2017
Bacon and cheese, what's not to like?
Add ground beef and you've got cheeseburger balls.
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Liz
April 15 2017
Are you frying in the T of butter and adding the oz of butter to the bowl?
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Terese
August 12 2017
Putting butter into the balls is overkill. The consistency and taste isn't as good as leaving the butter out . Mix the bacon into the ball and add a little horseradish to taste. Roll them in chopped nuts.
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Vittorio Vaselli
August 21 2017
How the cheddar should be? Melted? Shredded?
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Mara C.
September 24 2017
I found shredded worked well.
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Annie
November 27 2017
After reading this recipe I used a cream cheese and grated Cheddar mix to stuff mini peppers, celery sticks and cucumber sticks. Then I gently pressed the tops into the chopped up fried bacon to get them nicely covered. They went down a treat. :)
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Delaney
December 23 2017
I made this as dinner tonight. We were SUPER looking forward to it, but my husband said, "It's not my favorite." The flavor was awesome but the texture was just TOO much fat. It was overkill, and we've been LCHF for over a year, so we are used to the changes in food.
Part of the issue was, I think, adding butter to the bacon. Bacon has enough fat on its own for frying. Also, bacon grease amounts can vary greatly depending on what you buy. An arbitrary "dump it all in" doesn't work. I would say reserve a certain amount--maybe 1-2 Tbsp--to add into the remaining mixture and not the rest.
Good recipe but I think it's too greasy/fatty feeling on the tongue. Maybe with some tweaking it'll be superb.
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Judy
August 19 2018
I totally have NO use for the metric system!! So can you give both measurements! There was a reason the U.S. adopted the Imperial measurement!
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Judy
August 19 2018
I totally have NO use for the metric system!! So can you give both measurements? There was a reason the U.S. adopted the Imperial measurement!
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Becky
September 19 2018
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There's a button at the top to switch between metric and imperial.
Also the US adopted imperial because the metric system hadn't been invented yet.
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Wiebke
November 3 2018
Hi Judy,
you might not have the use for metric system, but you can choose to use the imperial system as was mentioned by Becky. However, I am sooooo glad metric system is available now as my recipes turn out much better now than when I tried to convert from cups into grams . Thanks for having thought about the metric users too.
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Dominic
December 1 2018
For all your recipes, is the weight of food, like bacon in this recipe, the weight before or after cooking?
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Kristin Parker Team Diet Doctor
December 2 2018
For all recipes, the standard convention is to list the pre-cooked weight.
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Michelle
April 5 2019
Hi
This may seem like a stupid question but are the recipes carb count the total amount for 1 serving...on the drop down when yournchoose how many servings would you need to increase the carb value for the amount of servings .... sorry I’m a novice here !!!
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Kristin Parker Team Diet Doctor
April 6 2019
Hi
This may seem like a stupid question but are the recipes carb count the total amount for 1 serving...on the drop down when yournchoose how many servings would you need to increase the carb value for the amount of servings .... sorry I’m a novice here !!!
The nutrition information listed is for one serving, regardless of how many servings the recipe yields. If you eat 2 servings, double the macro counts.
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Lucy
January 1 2020
hahaha the Us "adopted" the imperial measurment? hahahaha oh good god America.
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Ann Marie
September 5 2020
Hi, a complete novice here and NOT a cooker, can these be frozen as I'm cooking for one, thanks
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Kerry Merritt Team Diet Doctor
September 5 2020
Hi, a complete novice here and NOT a cooker, can these be frozen as I'm cooking for one, thanks
Yes, I would think these would freeze well.
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auralovesgatsby
January 8 2021
These are fantastic, great recipe! I think I will add some horseradish next time to kick up the flavor. I think it will complement the bacon and cheddar really well.
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Crystal Pullen Team Diet Doctor
January 8 2021
These are fantastic, great recipe! I think I will add some horseradish next time to kick up the flavor. I think it will complement the bacon and cheddar really well.
Great idea! Horseradish would certainly kick it up!
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Michael
February 4 2021
Being thick headed here. I am not understand the two butters one melted and one not. I get adding more fat (not sure with all of the bacon if it's necessary) but the recipe makes absolutely no mention of the butter in the instructions.
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Michael
February 4 2021
My bad I re-read it and see frying the bacon in butter which as an avid bacon fryer makes no sense but I will give it a try.
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Michael
February 6 2021
OMG!!! I just made this recipe. It is fantastic!! I made it exactly the way it reads and the explosion of flavor is just incredible. I am a bacon and cheese-aholic so I am sure the helps. If you eat bacon and cheese like I do then I imagine you will love these. Make them!
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Kerry Merritt Team Diet Doctor
February 6 2021
OMG!!! I just made this recipe. It is fantastic!! I made it exactly the way it reads and the explosion of flavor is just incredible. I am a bacon and cheese-aholic so I am sure the helps. If you eat bacon and cheese like I do then I imagine you will love these. Make them!
Awesome! So glad you love them!
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jessica
April 11 2021
1 serving = 1 ball?
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Kerry Merritt Team Diet Doctor
April 11 2021
1 serving = 1 ball?
As noted in the Nutrition section, there are 3 balls per serving.
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Sam
April 7 2022
I also want to know how long these might keep (as want to make them ahead of our party, if possible)
Did you experiment with storage?
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Kerry Merritt Team Diet Doctor
April 7 2022
I also want to know how long these might keep (as want to make them ahead of our party, if possible)
Did you experiment with storage?
Hi, Sam! These should keep for a few days in the fridge!
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AJ
April 21 2023
The "at room temperature" makes me think it goes in the mixture, not the frying pan. Just my guess.

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