Chocolate Chip Cheeseball

I was looking for something different to take for an office food day. Its always the same old food. I spent a lot of time on allrecipes.com searching for something and stumbled upon this. It is more dessert like but can be used as an appetizer. It is kind of like eating cookie dough (but no risk of salmonella). My office full of women loved it.

Here is the recipe:
Ingredients:
* 1 pkg. 8oz. cream cheese (for a healthier version you can use low-fat)
* 1/2 cup butter
* 1/4 tsp. vanilla
* 2 Tbs. brown sugar
* 3/4 cup confectioners sugar
* 3/4 cup mini chocolate chips
* 3/4 cup finely chopped pecans (optional...I usually leave them out)

Directions:

Bring cream cheese to room temperature or microwave on 50% power for approximately one minute to soften. Beat cream cheese, butter and vanilla until creamy. Slowly add sugars until blended. Stir in chocolate chips. Spoon batter into your favorite serving dish and sprinkle with pecans (if you are using them, if not, just sprinkle a few chips on top for a lovely presentation). You can also form into a ball by chilling the cheese ball for 15 minutes in the fridge before gently forming into a ball and rolling in pecans and/or chocolate chips.

Serve with assorted graham crackers .

Original Recipe here