These chocolate-covered cheesecake stuffed strawberries are a delicious dessert that's easy to make. With just a few ingredients you can bite into juicy sweet and savory strawberries.
Recipe: $5.53 | Per Serving: $1.38 | Servings: 4
These stuffed strawberries are a delightful dessert that combines the sweetness of fresh strawberries, the richness of cheesecake filling, and the decadence of creamy chocolate. This recipe is not only delicious but also visually appealing, making it a perfect dessert for special occasions, parties, or romantic evenings.
Making this recipe is very easy, but sometimes I don't even stuff the berries and just use the cream cheese as a dip. That's why I only make them a few times a year- I can't stop myself from eating them by the dozen. They're irresistibly good!
For more strawberry recipes, be sure to check out my Strawberry Cheesecake Crescent Rolls, Strawberry Banana Orange Smoothie, Homemade Strawberry Pop Tarts, and Strawberry Cream Cheese Turnovers.
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🍯 Why This Recipe Works
- It feels gourmet. Made with just a few simple ingredients and steps, this recipe turns out wonderfully and feels fancy too! Like a combination of No Bake Cool Whip Cheesecake and Pink Chocolate Covered Strawberries.
- They're great for celebrations. You can make a batch of these stuffed strawberries any night of the week, but they are so popular around Valentine's Day and Anniversaries!
- They're easy to make. Wash, melt, dip, mix, scoop. This recipe is so easy to make that anyone can do it, and even if they don't look magazine ready, you can feel confident in knowing that they'll taste delicious!
🥘 Ingredients
Ingredient Notes:
Chocolate chips- You will need some chocolate chips to melt down for dipping your berries in.
Coconut oil- Adding a little bit of coconut oil or shortening to the chocolate chips will get them to melt more evenly.
Graham cracker crumbs- Adding graham cracker crumbs to these dipped and filled berries will give them a cheesecake-like appearance.
Fresh strawberries- You will need fresh strawberries for this recipe. Make sure they've been washed well and are perfectly dried and at room temperature. Any moisture will cause the chocolate to not stick.
Cream cheese- You will need some thawed cream cheese for the cheesecake filling.
For specific ingredients and measurements, please see the recipe card below.
🔪 Instructions for Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries Dipped in Chocolate
Step 1: Wash and hull your strawberries. Slice off the bottom pieces just enough that they can stand upright. Place on paper towels to dry as you prep everything else.
Step 2: In a small bowl, combine chocolate and coconut oil. Microwave in 30 second intervals and stir between each until smooth. This takes about 1 minute.
Step 3: In a mixing bowl cream the cream cheese, vanilla, and powdered sugar until smooth. Fill a Ziploc bag or a pastry bag and snip off the corner.
Step 4: Dip dried strawberries into chocolate and twirl off the excess. Place onto a parchment-lined baking sheet so that they are standing upright.
Step 4: Pipe the cheesecake filling into the strawberries leaving a little bit on the outside of the berry (purposely overfilling them).
Step 5: Sprinkle the graham cracker crumbs over the top.
Let the chocolate set and then enjoy.
🍴 Recipe Tips
- Filling Method: For stuffing the strawberries with cream cheese, you can use either a pastry bag with a fitted tip or a Ziploc bag with a snipped corner. Both methods work effectively for filling the berries.
- Preparation Tip: After washing and cutting the strawberries, ensure they are thoroughly dried. Running a paper towel along the inside of the strawberries helps remove excess moisture, preventing the filling from immediately falling out and ensuring it adheres better to the berries. This tip comes from personal experience and experimentation.
- Stability Enhancer: To ensure the strawberries stand upright before filling, cut a flat spot on the bottom of each berry and pat it dry as well. This step helps stabilize the strawberries, making it easier to fill them without toppling over.
💭 Recipe FAQs
You can use any type of chocolate. I used milk chocolate chips, but you could use semi-sweet, dark chocolate, melters chocolate, or even colored melting chocolate. They all work, but each will bring a new flavor to the table.
You can prep them up to a day in advance and keep them stored in the fridge IF you wait until the last minute to add the graham cracker crumbs. Leaving the crumbs on for too long will give you a soft and somewhat mushy cookie.
With your paring knife, take it along the top green part of the strawberry. Insert it not far from the base of the green, and at an angled circle it around the berry to pop the green top off.
Then, carefully move the knife around the inside of the berry to remove the white/pink stuff in the center to make space for the cheesecake filling. Just be careful not to poke a hole in the wall of the strawberry.
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📖 Recipe
Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries
Ingredients
- 8 ounces cream cheese softened ($1.86)
- ½ cup Powdered sugar ($0.18)
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract ($0.03)
- 2 Tablespoons Crushed Graham crackers (about 1 whole) ($0.09)
- 1 pound Fresh strawberries (washed and hulled) ($2.24)
- 1 cup Chocolate chips ($1.07)
- 1 teaspoon Coconut oil ($0.06)
Instructions
- Wash your strawberries. Hull them out and cut off the very tip of the bottom so that the strawberries can stand upright. Take a paper towel and pat down the inside and out. Set them aside.
- In a small bowl, add the chocolate chips and coconut oil. Microwave for 30 seconds, stir, and repeat until smooth. This should take about 1 minute.
- In a large mixing bowl combine the cream cheese, vanilla, and powdered sugar with an electric mixer until smooth.
- Fill a pastry bag or use a Ziploc bag with the cream cheese and snip the corner.
- Dip the strawberries into the chocolate and shake off excess. Place on a parchment lined baking sheet and repeat until all strawberries are dipped and standing on the sheet.
- Pipe your cheesecake filling into the prepared strawberries, leaving them a little overfilled so that there is some on the outside of the berry.
- Sprinkle graham cracker crumbs over the top of the cheesecake filled berries.
- Place baking sheet in fridge and allow to set before serving.
Notes
- Use a pastry bag or a Ziploc bag with a snipped corner for filling.
- Pat the inside of strawberries dry after cutting and washing to prevent filling spillage.
- Trim the bottom of the strawberries for them to stand upright and pat them dry.
- Various chocolate types like milk chocolate, semi-sweet, dark chocolate, or colored melting chocolate work.
- Prepare in advance and store in the fridge, adding graham cracker crumbs just before serving.
- Hollow strawberries by circling around the green part with a paring knife.
- Carefully remove the center without piercing the strawberry walls.
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