If you are a fan of fried mozzarella sticks (is anyone not?) then you are going to love today’s recipe…a fantastic, easy, and oh so yummy Baked Cheese Balls Recipe!
I recently came across the original version of these Baked Cheese Balls at Never Trust a Skinny Cook, and then made a few changes to make them lower in Weight Watchers Points. They were SO good!
And the fact that they were little balls rather than sticks, made me feel like I was getting a lot, which I love.
I made these while my kids were napping, and then sat down on the couch for 15 minutes of glorious, uninterrupted, cheesy bliss, while I indulged.
These cheese balls are also a great idea for a tasty, yet healthy Super Bowl Recipe, so make sure to keep this recipe on file for game day.
Enjoy!
Baked Cheese Balls Recipe
Equipment
- 1 Oven
Ingredients
- 2 sticks of light mozzarella string cheese
- ½ cup Fiber One cereal - or other high fiber cereal
- ¼ cup liquid egg whites
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- ½ tsp dried parsley
- ½ tsp salt
- Optional marinara sauce for dipping
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F and line a baking sheet with aluminum foil. Spray lightly with nonfat cooking spray or with an olive oil mister.
- Cut up cheese sticks into bite sized pieces.
- In a blender or food processor, combine cereal, garlic powder, salt, parsley and oregano until they have a reached a breadcrumb like consistency. Empty into a small bowl or a Ziploc bag.
- Dip cheese bites into egg whites, shake off excess, and then coat with Fiber One breadcrumb mixture.
- Place coated cheese balls onto baking sheet and very gently mist with olive oil or non-fat cooking spray.
- Bake for about 5-7 min, or until cheese begins to soften, but doesn’t melt into a puddle.
- Let stand one minute and then enjoy!
11 Comments
just made these with a few tweaks…bread crumbs instead of fiber one and colby-jack cheese since we didn’t have the cereal or mozzarella on hand. less healthy, yes, but still very good. thanks!
I can’t wait to try these :) What kind of marinara did you use to dip and how many additional points is that?
I used Trader Joe’s Organic Tomato Basil Marinara Sauce. I only used about 1/4 cup, and I think that came out to one additional Point.
sounds so good, I’m going to try it. Thx.
I`ve tried this recipe and i`m really impressed, it has a very good taste. My both child tried it and they like it a lot. Thanks a lot for sharing.
thanks– I am trying this TONIGHT
I did this using another blog’s recipe (basically the same but with bread crumbs) and mine totally melted in the oven and got flat. How does everyone avoid that from happening?
Can you advise if the Weight Watcher points decrease if we use Fat Free Cheese, and if so, how many points per ball would they be? Thanks so much for all your Wonderful recipes!
I don’t know the exact nutritional of the fat free cheese, but I’d guess that the overall PointsPlus would decrease by maybe 1 Point for the total recipe. As for the Points per ball, I cut my cheese into 5 pieces per string, and I used 2 strings. So using the reduced fat cheese, I got 10 balls for 5 Points +. Hope that helps! And thanks for reading!
:) really good
this is really good for who is making proper instructions are given