recipe: baked buffalo chicken bites

i've been meaning to make these little buggers for a while but hadn't gotten around to it... since i had cream cheese and green onion in stock it seemed as good a time as any to give them a whirl. i had found this recipe from Sweet Pea's Kitchen on foodgawker.com - Sweet Pea had taken the recipe from Pennies on a Platter who took it from from Macaroni and Cheesecake who took it from Made by Melissa who adopted it from foodnetwork.com. behold the beauty of internet eats, and how i end up wasting hours of my day popping around recipe sites. anywho...   

ingredients list:
- 2 cups shredded cooked chicken
- 1/4 to 1/2 cup hot sauce, depending on preference
- 4 oz cream cheese, softened
- 1 & 3/4 cups sharp cheddar cheese, shredded
- 1/4 cup chopped green onions
- 1 cup flour
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 2 eggs
- 2-3 cups corn flakes, crushed

to make: preheat oven to 350 degrees. line a large baking sheet with parchment paper. in a large bowl, combine chicken, cream cheese, hot sauce, cheddar cheese, and green onions.

roll spoonfulls of mixture into 1.5 inch balls and place onto a plate. get 3 shallow bowls - in one, combine flour, garlic powder, and pepper. in the second, add eggs and beat slightly. in the third, add the corn flakes.

dip each ball into first the flour mixture, then the eggs, then the corn flakes. place onto prepared baking sheet and bake for 20-25 minutes. serve with ranch or bleu cheese dressing for dip dips.
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verdict... really liked these, buuut thought they had too much hot sauce - they weren't too spicy, but they were too saucy. i don't mind a ton of sauce when i'm eating wings, but somehow that's diff w/ the fried factor in it. next time i might jack up the cream cheese a little... other than that though, fun snack! i would make them tinier next time so they are poppable in one bite (i did like 2-2.5 inch balls). rating... 5.5 *****~