I Love Olives and Cream Cheese Spread

Submitted by CookETC

"What's not to love? This is an easy make-ahead appetizer that takes 15 minutes to prepare and is so yummy it will be gone 15 minutes after you set it on the table. Pitted black olives and pimiento-stuffed Spanish/Manzanilla olives make it look as colorful as it is delicious. Serve it with crackers or crispinis. I also use it as a sandwich spread...it really spruces up a plain old cold-cut or deli sandwich."

 

• Ready In: 15mins
• Ingredients: 6
• Serves: 8

ingredients

• 226.79 g cream cheese, softened (I use neufchatel cream cheese as it's lighter and easier to spread)
• 59.14 ml pitted black olives, finely chopped
• 59.14 ml pimiento-stuffed Spanish olives, finely chopped
• 44.37 ml olive oil
• 1.23 ml garlic powder
• 0.25 ml seasoning salt (optional)

directions

1. Mix well and chill for a minimum of 2 hours (overnight is best).
2. Serve with crackers or crispinis -- OR --
3. Use it as a spread on cold-cut or deli sandwiches.

Reviews

[Michelle S.]

This is addicitive as another reviewer declared! I adore it! I put it on crisp bread, pretzel bread, and stuffed it into celery already just today! I cannot keep out of it! Instead of the olive oil I used 1 t. black olive brine and 2 t. green olive brine. I could not see adding anymore fat to it. I will be making this for every event I am invited to! Fantastic stuff!

 

[L M.9559]

I nix the olive oil - no olive oil. I nix the salt - no salt as it takes away from the cream cheese flavor! Also, I did not put garlic powder in it at all. I used regular cream cheese, black olives chopped, a lesser amount of green olives chopped, added a couple of tablespoons of the black olive juice, and...totally awesome!!!!

 

[Meryl]

This was delicious. I added some hot sauce to the mix, plus I used olive brine instead of olive oil, thanks to Michelle S. (whose coffee cake, by the way, is one of my favorites - "Streusel Topped Triple Berry Coffee Cake" - it's amazingly good). <br/>Thanks for the great recipe, CookETC!

 

[Bobbie S.]

We couldn't stop eating this!!!! I served it on Rye-Krisp crackers and it was awesome. I probably went a little heavy on the olives -- and I still may even bump them up a little more the next time. I also used probably close to 1/8 t. of the seasoned salt. AMAZING!

 

[pooters mom]

this is awesome! took some to work, was gone in no time! making again for christmas dinner to stuff celery. thank you!