Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries

Since Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, I’ll get right to the point. These strawberries are juicy, creamy, sweet little bites of perfection, ready to sweep your taste buds, your friends, or your special someone right off their feet.  Of course, these would be fabulous any time of year, but Valentine’s Day always seems like a time to indulge and be decadent. These Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries give you all the decadence you could want for only 1 Weight Watchers SmartPoints on Green, Blue or Purple or 35 calories each! To view your WW PersonalPoints for this recipe and track it in the WW app or site, click here!

Cheesecake is one of my favorite desserts, but one slice from the bakery at my local supermarket is around 500 calories. These strawberries change up the ratio of berry to cheesecake so that you’re eating more fruit, and the berries provide the perfect vessel for portion controlled deliciousness. The graham cracker “crust” on top is the perfect finishing touch. With only 5 ingredients and no cook time, these sweet little treats are easy to whip up, and they’re so light you can indulge completely guilt-free!

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Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries

Prep Time: 20 minutes mins

Total Time: 20 minutes mins

Calories: 35kcal

These Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries are the perfect sweet and healthy summer dessert!

Yield: 16 strawberries

Ingredients

• 1 lb fresh strawberries, this was about 16 large strawberries for me
• 4 oz 1/3 less fat cream cheese, softened
• ¼ cup powdered sugar
• ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 full sized low fat graham cracker, one sheet of four little rectangles, crushed

Instructions

• Cut the tops off of each strawberry and discard. Using a paring knife, hollow out each strawberry, removing the white interior.
• In a mixing bowl, combine the cream cheese, powdered sugar and vanilla extract and beat with an electric mixer until thoroughly combined. At this point you can either transfer the cream cheese mixture into a piping bag and pipe it into each berry, or do what I did and just fill each berry using a butter knife.
• Dip each strawberry, cheesecake side down, into the graham cracker crumbs, coating the top.
• Note: These taste best the day they are made, so if you are not planning to serve/eat all 16  in one day, I recommend making the cream cheese filling, crushing up the graham cracker, and storing them separately (the cream cheese filling in a tupperware container in the refrigerator and the crumbs in a ziplock somewhere dry). This way, you can just hollow out however many strawberries you plan to eat at once and stuff them with filling to order.

Notes

To view your WW PersonalPoints for this recipe and track it in the WW app or site, click here!

Nutrition Information:

35 calories, 5 g carbs, 3 g sugars, 2 g fat, 1 g saturated fat, 1 g protein, 0 g fiber (from myfitnesspal.com)

MyWW SmartPoints per (1 piece) serving: (SP calculated using the recipe builder on weightwatchers.com)

Green: 1 SmartPoints/ Blue: 1 SmartPoints/ Purple: 1 SmartPoints

Weight Watchers Points Plus:

1 per berry (P+ calculated using the recipe builder on weightwatchers.com)

I have seen these all over. Here’s a few: Iowa Girl Eats, Sugar Derby and Nutmeg Nanny.

Author: Emily Bites

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: 20 Minute Recipe, Easy Dessert, Healthy Dessert, Summer Dessert, WW Dessert