Title: Almond cheese pinecone
 Categories: Dips
      Yield: 1 Servings
 
           Crackers
           Pine sprigs for garnish
    1/2 ts Worcestershire sauce
    1/4 c  Minced green onions
    1/2 lb Crumbled blue cheese
      2 c  Blanched toasted whole
           Almonds
      3 pk (8-oz ea) cream cheese
           Softened
      2    Jars (5-oz ea) pasteurized
           Process cheese spread
           W/pimento
 
  In a large bowl with mixer at medium speed, beat cream cheese, cheese
  spread with pimento and blue cheese until smooth. With spoon, stir in
  green onions and worcestershire sauce. Cover and refrigerate about
  one hour. On work surface, with hands, shape cheese mixture into
  shape of large pine cone. Arrange on wooden board. Beginning at
  narrow end of cone, carefully press almonds about 1/4 inch deep into
  cheese mixture in rows, making sure that pointed end of each almond
  extends at a slight angle. Continue pressing almonds into cheese
  mixture in rows, with rows slightly overlapping, until all cheese is
  covered. Garnish pinecone with pine sprigs. Serve with crackers.