Although these are very simple, they are messy to make. I like take a very strong block of blue cheese and whipping it with an entire container of whipped cream cheese. You still get all the great strength of the blue cheese but it becomes spreadable!
Take VERY DRY red grapes (seedless) and roll them in the blue cheese mixture so that the grapes are COMPLETELY covered. I like them to be pretty heavy on the cheese, others might like a thinner layer. They will end up coming out looking like a cheese ball. It's best to do this by hand, and the cheese does get ALL OVER your hands and the surface you're rolling them on. Just fair warning. Wear an apron and have someone around to turn on the kitchen sink for you!
After you roll them, take a gallon Ziploc bag and fill it with crushed walnuts (VERY crushed, this does not work if they are still in big chunks). I sometimes stomp on them in a doubled bag or take a hammer...I'm not even kidding!
Drop the cheese ball into the bag, 3 or 4 at a time, and shake. They won't stick together and will come out perfectly coated in walnuts. You can stack them on a serving tray to finish...you don't have to worry about them sticking to your hands or your fingers because the walnuts cover the sticky cheese!
I would always recommend doing these with red grapes, and not green. The juicy, fruity red grape juice mixes so well with the blue cheese, it just can't be substituted. You could opt for blue cheese crumbles instead of a block of the stronger stuff though, if you wanted to make it a little more palatable to non-blue cheese eaters. Walnuts could also be replaced with another nut, maybe pecans (YUM)!
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