Blue Cheese and Bartlett Pear Endive Bites

Ingredients

8 oz cream cheese, softened
4 oz crumbled Treasure Cave ® Blue Cheese
2 tbsps butter (no substitutes)
2 green onions, sliced
1/8 tsp black pepper
24 small endive leaves
1-2 ripe California Bartlett pears, sliced
24 toasted walnut pieces

Directions

Combine cheeses, butter, green onions and pepper in the bowl of a food processor; mix until smooth. Transfer mixture to a pastry bag fitted with a fluted tip. Pipe into endive leaves. Place 2 small pear slices and 1 walnut piece on each. Mixture may also be piped directly onto slightly thicker pear slices and garnished with walnuts.

Variations: Filling may also be piped into cherry hollowed-out tomatoes, snow peas, tiny sweet peppers or onto baguette slices.