Cookie Dough Cheese Ball

My husband works in a grocery store. This, on occasion, causes me grief. Usually it is very convenient. Me, picking up phone and dialing "Honey, would you bring home X, Y and Z." Honey, "Sure let me make a list." and to his credit I get what I asked for about 90% of the time, and to be fair to him, he works 12 hour shifts, so if he might forget an item, I will probably give him a bad time in the morning but rarely do I make him go back for it. But that little exchange is not what causes me grief. That comes from the fact that his department stares out at the book and magazine display. So, sometimes when they get a little bored in the evenings, I end up being brought home photocopied or hand written recipes out of said books. This is one of those recipes. Sometimes he makes things at work, but seeing that he didn't have all the stuff to make this at work, and he knew we did at home, I busted this one out at 10 p.m. for a turn around shift. The staff liked it. I am going to give it to you with my modification, and sadly I have no idea where the original came from, so I have no one to source it to!

Cookie Dough Cheese ball

1 8oz pkg cream cheese, softened
1 stick (1/2 cup) butter, softened
1/2 tsp Vanilla (I used a full tsp. the hubby likes the vanilla)
1/2 cup powdered sugar (I used more like 3/4 cup)
3 TBSP brown sugar, packed
1 cup mini chocolate chips
1 cup finely chopped pecans, optional

Blend together first 3 ingredients until creamy. Add powdered sugar and brown sugar, blending well. Fold in chocolate chips cover and refrigerate 3-4 hours.

Shape into a ball. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm. Roll in pecans before serving. Makes about 3 cups.

*We skipped the whole rolling into a ball and the pecans part. Hubby doesn't care for the nuts. I served it with graham cracker sticks and it was darn tasty.