How to make cream cheese stuffed chocolate covered strawberries
Hello, and welcome to In the Kitchen with Matt, I am your host Matt Taylor.
Today I am going to teach you how to make cream cheese stuffed, chocolate dipped strawberries.
Mmm yummy!
They are super easy to make, super delicious, perfect for Valentine's Day, for parties,
or any occasion really.
Let's get started.
For our tools and the ingredients, we have a hand mixer; we have a melon ball scooper,
a pairing knife, a cutting board, a cookie sheet with parchment paper on top, some chocolate
candy melts, or you can use chocolate chips, or your favorite chocolate bar.
We have strawberries that I have washed and dried.
For our toppings, I have a peanut and hazelnut mix, washed and dried blueberries, graham
cracker crumbs, shaved coconut, and for our cream cheese stuffing we have 1 teaspoon of
vanilla extract, 1 cup of powdered sugar, and 8 ounces of softened room temperature
cream cheese.
First what we want to do is prepare our strawberries.
And what we need to do is take off the tops, and we need to make a flat bottom, because
these are going to rest like this.
So what we do is we take our strawberry, and we go ahead and cut off the tip, like that,
we make a flat cut and so as you can see it will stand up straight just like that.
Now what we do with this top part is go ahead and cut it off straight like that.
Now there is a couple of ways that we can do this, we can use a paring knife and carve
out some, or we can use this nice little melon ball scooper.
And just go ahead and scoop in here, and you want to be a little gentle with it so it doesn't
mess up the sides.
Just like that.
Take our strawberry, do the flat bottom, cut the top off.
Then go ahead and scoop it.
Ok now we are going to melt our chocolate.
I am going to do this in the microwave, on bursts of 30 seconds, stir 30 seconds, and
stir, and then 10 to 15 seconds for the last part.
Or you can use the double boiler method if you like.
Ok once our chocolate is melted; now we want to dip the strawberries, now I am not going
to dip them all the way, you can dip them however much you want.
So we take a strawberry and we will just push it down in there, and we will shake off the
excess, and go ahead and put it on our parchment paper.
Now if you want to put some of these toppings on there, I always like to make a variety.
We will go ahead and, like these peanuts, dip it, shake off the excess, and then just
come in here, and lightly spin it, tap it, then place it.
Ok.
Ok once you are done dipping them put it in the refrigerator for 15 to 20 minutes to let
the chocolate set.
Ok while the chocolate on our strawberries is setting, let's go ahead and make our cream
cheese stuffing.
A couple of tools I didn't have on the table before, I have a glass and a piping bag, you
can use a zip locked bag if you want instead of a piping bag, but I have a nice piping
bag here, with a star tip, it is going to make a little nicer of a design, and then
a spatula.
Ok for our cream cheese stuffing, we have our 8 ounces of cream cheese, we have our
one cup of powdered sugar, I am going to go ahead and add that.
And our one teaspoon of vanilla extract.
Ok, then I am going to take my hand mixer and go ahead and mix this all together.
Ok once our cream cheese stuff is ready to go, go ahead and clean these beaters just
a little bit, so I am not wasting any of it.
Ok, and now I am going to take my piping bag, again you don't need to have a piping bag,
you can use a zip lock bag, and let's go ahead and scrape this, and put this in here.
Like that.
Ok now we are ready to fill the strawberries.
So I will take my piping bag, here, and I will go ahead and give this a nice squeeze,
and turn it a little bit.
Ok isn't that cool?
You can leave them just like that, or what you want to do is put toppings on there.
Graham cracker powder, or graham crackers, crushed up graham crackers, just take it and
put some on.
And then you can take one of your blueberries, and put it right on top, and you can use one
of the tips of these if you like, one of the tips of strawberries, kind of like a hat,
and there we go you are done.
All right, our cream cheese stuffed chocolate dipped strawberries are done.
The look amazing, really easy to make, simple ingredients, sure to impress your friends
and family, or that special someone.
I am Matt Taylor, this has been another episode of In the Kitchen with Matt, thank you for
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Take care, time for me to dive into one of these.
Mmm, I think I am going to go for this one right here.