Thursday, March 1, 2012

Chocolate covered Strawberries stuffed with Cheesecake


So you already know about my obsession with chocolate covered strawberries so when I saw a picture of strawberries stuffed with cheesecake batter I thought why the heck not use chocolate covered strawberries?? Well they were amazing!!! Afterwards I was online and saw a picture of chocolate covered strawberries stuffed with cheesecake on Pinterest so its going around.. as it should be so yummy! 

Ingredients: 
  • Fresh strawberries (the bigger the better) 
  • Milk or Dark Chocolate ( chips are fine or go for a nicer chocolate finely chopped) 
  • 8 oz Cream Cheese at room temperature 
  • 2 Tablespoons 
  • 1 teaspoon of Pure Vanilla Extract 
Preparation: 

Strawberries and Chocolate: 
  1. Wash strawberries and dry completely 
  2. When cutting the stems off the berries I used a knife and went down and around creating sort of an upside down cone out of the strawberry, creating room for the cheesecake filling
  3. Set aside a cookie sheet and top it with wax paper
  4. Melt the chocolate over a double broiler be careful to watch it constantly so the chocolate doesn't over cook, if it goes just a bit too far then it will harden and there is NO going back! For example, if using chips I let them melt almost all the way ( as they begin to lose their chip shape) then I take the bowl off of the double broiler and mix it until completely smooth.  
  5. Dip the strawberries and lay them on the wax paper to harden
Cheesecake filling: 
  1. Put cream cheese into a bowl of an electric mixer and whip until light and fluffy. The cream cheese MUST be at room temperature or it will contain tons of little bumps. 
  2. Add the sugar and vanilla. 
  3. Use a pastry bag to pipe the cheesecake batter into the strawberries. It's best to add the cheesecake to the strawberries right before serving. 



Note: You could always dip the top the cheesecake into graham cracker crumbs, I didn't as I was out of graham crackers but next time I will

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