Blue Cheese Endive Bites

Prep time: 10 minutes

8 oz. cream cheese, softened

4 oz. crumbled Blue cheese

2 tablespoons butter 

2 green onions, sliced

1/8 teaspoon pepper

24 small endive leaves

1 to 2 ripe pears, thinly sliced

 24 toasted walnut pieces

Place 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 or into a zipper seal bag with the end snipped off. Pipe into endive leaves. Place 2 pear slices and 1 walnut piece on each.  Mixture may also be piped directly onto slightly thicker pear slices and garnished with coarsely chopped walnuts.  Makes  24 appetizers.

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