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Ingredients:

3-cracker barrel cheese (white, sharp, extra sharp.)
1-8oz Philadelphia cream cheese (no generic!)
½ cup grated onion (best to grate on box grater)
½ cup finely chopped nuts.

Form in logs, roll in chili powder.  Should make 3 logs.

“You can use an extra sharp Kraft cheese (1#), but I don’t think it is as good,” says Mark Alford.

Watch him (messily) make his family cheese log here: