Linda's Cheesecake-Stuffed Strawberries

Linda's Busy Kitchen's Note:

OMG.. These are like heaven in your mouth! Talk about great taste sensations... I made these for one of my cooking and recipe events that I hold monthly, and these were a HUGE hit... A must try for sure! You can use low fat cream cheese to make these lighter if you like. You can also dip the ends with any kind of finely chopped nuts, mini chocolate chips, graham cracker crumbs, sprinkles, or dip the ends in chocolate or drizzle with chocolate. You might even try adding some cocoa powder to the cream cheese and make it a chocolate filling. The sky is the limit here, just use your imagination!

• Total Time: 30 mins
• Prep Time: 30 mins
• Cook Time: 0 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 24

• 24 large strawberries , hulls removed
• 12 ounces cream cheese , at room temperature
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 3 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
• ½ cup almonds , chopped fine in the blender

Directions:

1. Place cream cheese in a bowl, and microwave for 30 seconds, so that it's soft.
2. Whip together the cream cheese, vanilla, and sugar.
3. In the center of each strawberry, using a sharp knife, make a hole in each one, as deep as you can without going out the bottom.
4. Spoon or pipe the filling into each hole.
5. Dip cheesecake end of strawberry into chopped almonds, making sure you completely cover the cheesecake filling with the nuts.
6. Lay strawberries in a pretty serving dish.
7. Sprinkle with any leftover nuts around the dish.
8. Chill, and serve.
9. Makes 24 servings.

Reviews

[*pink*]

These really were delicious! I loved the filling. It was so good with the strawberries! Instead of coating the outside with crushed nuts, I used up some crushed chocolate graham crackers that I had. Anything would be good on the outside, nuts, melted chocolate, crushed cookies...yum...it could be endless. Thanks so much for the recipe. Im sure to make again!

[dawn2701]

Using cream cheese is both overly time consuming because of how thick it is and also more fattening. I've been making this with greek yogurt the last few times and everyone loves them. I use the leftover strawberry chunks from hulling out the strawberries in muffins!

[Emmyalice]

Well just as ALL the reviews say- These little desserts are sweet! They were the HOIT of the wedding shower I went to last night. They think i'm some culinary genious- IF they only knew how easy they are to make. Oh and a grapefruit spoon works really well at hollowing out the berries.