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Everything bagel Seasoning Vegan Cheese Ball. No soaking, blending, straining needed! 10 minute vegan cheese ball. Gluten-free. Can be soy-free
Cheesy Balls and dips are always popular at potlucks and events. But most recipes need a blender or processor, lots of wait time, straining and handling. You dont need to do any of that with this cheese ball. It takes just 5 minutes to put together, 25 mins to bake and its ready to serve!
Put the almond flour, spices, flavor ingredients in a bowl, mix well to combine, knead for a minute to combine and bring together, done! Roll it in everything bagel seasoning or other spices or seeds /crushed nuts, and bake at low heat. Cool and serve with veggies and crackers. Easy as that. Perfect to start up the Holiday Dinner. Happy Holidays Everyone!
This ball can be crumbled up and used as parmesan. The flavor keeps developing as it sits. Add herbs of choice and to make herbed cheese ball. Everything bagel seasoning works well over this cheese, see recipe notes to make your own seasoning. While you are here, check out the 3 book giveaway on Instagram
More apps from the blog to take to the potluck dinner
- Pizza dip with herbed mushrooms, cashew mozzarella cream and veggies.
- Thai Dip with peanut butter sauce, peppers, sprouts
- Jalapeno Popper dip – Creamy and super popular
- Vegan Cheddar Cheese Ball – nut-free
- 11 Vegan Cheese Balls
Entree Ideas for Holiday dinners, see here. 
Why you will love this easy vegan cheeseball
- No soaking, blending, straining needed! unlike many cashew or other nut. Asked cheeses
- It takes barely 10 mins of active time
- Because Everything bagel seasoning!
- Flexible- change up flavors or toppings
- versatile – use as appetizer or sandwich spread, or in quesadillas. Make it into a dip with additional water.
Amazing, delicious, easy and versatile. Use it instead of feta over pizza or salad! This cheese idea is inspired by elements from Ricki’s Feta and Sophia’s Cashew parm.
If you make this recipe, do let me know how it turned out. Tag me on Instagram #veganricha.
Vegan Cheese Ball Everything bagel – 10 Minute
Ingredients
- 1 cup almond flour, , super fine if possible
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 tsp nutritional yeast
- 1/8 tsp dried sage
- 1/4 tsp dried thyme
- 1/4 tsp garlic powder
- 1/4 tsp onion powder
- generous dash of black pepper
- 1 clove of garlic minced or crushed
- 2 to 3 tsp lime juice
- 1.5 tbsp unsweetened non dairy yogurt , or use thick non dairy milk starting with 2 tsp
- 2 tsp extra virgin olive oil, (omit for oil free, add more yogurt)
- 1/2 -1 tsp miso, , white mellow miso or use chickpea miso to make soyfree
- 1 tbsp or more everything bagel seasoning, ,(see note to make your own)
Instructions
- Add all the dry ingredients to a bowl (almond flour to black pepper) and mix well.
- Add the rest of the ingredients except bagel seasoning and mix well. Get your hands or spatula in there to press and knead into a dough. Taste and add more lime juice if needed. If the mixture is too crumbly, add a few drops of water or non-dairy yogurt at a time and press and knead to make a ball.. (add more moisture for creamier cheeseball)
- Brush oil or aquafaba. Roll into everything bagel seasoning or sprinkle some on the ball and pat. (Or use a different coating of choice or no coating).
- Bake at 200 degrees F(95 C)for 20-25 mins. Cool for 10 minutes before serving. Or refrigerate for a few hours for flavor to develop more and serve when needed at room temp. The ball can be stored refrigerated in a closed container for upto 4 days.
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Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Ingredients
- almond flour forms the. Add of the cheese. I use blanched superfine almond flour
- nutritional yeast and miso add cheesy flavor along with non dairy yogurt. Use chickpea miso to make it soy free
- Herbs such as thyme, sage, salt, pepper, garlic, onion powder add flavor
- some extra virgin olive oil adds moisture and fat. Omit for Oilfree and use more yogurt
- everything Bagel seasoning is an amazing topping – see recipe notes to make your own
How to make the vegan cheeseball
Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl. Then add all the wet and mix well to form a soft dough.
Shape into a ball. brush with oil or aquafaba or a flax egg. Then roll in the everything bagel seasoning. Bake for 20-25 mins. Then serve with crackers.
I’m not sure if I need to add the oil in, or just use it to brush on before rolling in seasoning. Please advise. Can’t wait to try this!
it gets added in. Use more for brushing. it will barely be a few drops to brush the ball as its a small ball
I tried the vegan yogurt variation to make it more of a dip and it turned out AMAZING! Thank you as always for your amazing recipe!
awesome!
Taste amazing!! Thanks for the recipe !!!
Hi Richa! I just wanted to let you know my very Western Doctor went Vegan about 3 years ago and he’s a changed doctor. He is so much more in tune with food as healer. I went to see him for some inflammation I was having about a month ago and he recommended you to me (I’m vegetarian). Well I’m now into a month off of all dairy and my inflammation is all but gone, but I really do miss cheese. Thanks for sharing this and all your wonderful recipes!
is baking required?
you can leave the mixture as is in the fridge to chill for a few hours and it will set. I like the baked version as the flavors meld and get stronger.
Just made this for dinner tonight – the family slowed down eating it once I told them it was 650 calories 😉 but it was still gone in no time. We need to come up with our own vegan titles for our mock cheese and else. This “fill in the name” was very tasty and I can see it going well with a cracker, but if I would call it “cheese” for an omnivore I would have to face heavy criticism.
Thank you for the recipe, we will be making this again, and next time we will let it sit, to develop the flavor.
Thats true. Right now everyone searches for vegan “cheese” or whatever vegan something. Until there is a consensus, its hard to come up with my own name else no one will find these amazing recipes!
I can’t tell you how excited I am to try this recipe! Do you know if there is a good substitute for the nutritional yeast? I don’t do well with yeasts and many plant based recipes recommend it. Any suggestion is greatly appreciated!
Add more miso and ground mustard. that should add a good cheesy profile. You can taste before baking since everything is edible in the mix.
I made this for my 8 yo daughter who is allergic to dairy yesterday. She loved it and she would have eaten the whole thing in one sitting if I hadn’t stopped her. Thanks so much! Your recipes make my life so much easier.
Thats so awesome!!
This looks amazing! Your recipes are the best out there!! can I use coconut flour instead of almond flour in this recipe? Thank you!
No unfortunately. Coconut flour is very different kind of flour. it needs 10 times the moisture and will just crumble in sawdust, it also tastes very different . it is not a good substitute to use in most recipes and needs a recipe developed for coconut flour
Delicious! Gets better over time for sure. Wonderful substitute for dairy cheese. Haven’t had cheese and crackers for so long!
Awesome!