Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries

When I first heard these words, I was blown away. What a damn good idea. I need to try this NOW.

Courtesy of sugarderby.com

Ingredients

• About 20 strawberries
• 8 oz pkg softened cream cheese
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 sleeve of graham crackers
• 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips (optional)

Directions

To prepare the strawberries, wash them under cold water and cut the tops off. Core the middle using a peeler or a small knife. The easiest way to core the strawberries is to hold the entire berry in your hand (wrap your fingers around it) and literally just core out the center. Get as deep as you can without breaking through the bottom.

For the filling, beat the cream cheese, powdered sugar, and vanilla extract until smooth. Put the filling into a piping bag (or to improvise, use a ziploc bag and snip off the corner) and fill in the strawberries allowing the filling to come out a bit of the strawberries.

Take another ziploc bag and put three graham crackers in there and pound with something hard and flat into crumbs. Sprinkle the crumbs onto the tops of the filled strawberries.

If you want, you can also melt some chocolate and dip the strawberries to give them a chocolate coating. Or you can even put the melted chocolate into a piping bag and drizzle them. However you would like.

Review

I think this is such a creative idea. I never would have thought of the idea and I've never see anything like it outside of the kitchen. It's actually really simple to make, though I'd imagine it would get tedious making several of these for some party or event. These strawberries were just so tasty that I almost ate all of them and didn't leave some for my roommates. All in all, a unique dessert that is sure to impress many people.