Strawberry Cheesecake Me oh My! ♡

So this is a blog about eating healthy right ?? Here I am about to give you a recipe for Strawberry Cheesecake? I am sure you are thinking this defeats the purpose of what we are doing here, but that is hardly the case. Valentines Day is coming up and instead of indulging on tons of sweets, cakes, or chocolates here is a tasty quick fix to fill those cravings AND to show a little creativity for your special someone.
So here is Ashley's version of her Strawberry Cheesecakes  

((since she is a little ditzy and can't figure out how to post it haha ♡ ))


Ingredients::


- A little over 1 lb of strawberries
- 8 ounces reduced fat cream cheese  OR  8 ounces of Greek yogurt (Janey's version)
- 1/3 cup confectioners sugar (I will list below an alternative if we are 100% sticking to counting calories here)
- 3/4 cup chocolate chips (preferably dark chocolate)2 packs of graham crackers

*Before I started hulling the strawberries, I set out the cream cheese to soften!*

1) So I hulled the package of strawberries as well as a few from the other package. For those that don't know to "hull" a strawberry is to leave it whole but remove the core.


2) After I did that I mixed the cream cheese and confectioners sugar in a bowl until it was a little fluffy. I then put the mixture into a plastic freezer bag (in one of the bottom corners) so I could fill the strawberries (If you are confused look below). 


3) After filling the strawberries, I melted about 3/4 cup chocolate chips in the microwave and dipped the filled strawberries into the chocolate! I put them on wax paper and placed them in the fridge so the chocolate could harden and the cream cheese mixture could set. 


4) About an hour later I crushed up some graham cracker and dipped the tops of the strawberries (the end with the cream cheese sticking out) into the graham cracker crumbs!

That's it... I hope it makes sense it was super easy... minus the hulling of the berries... but I hear there's a tool for that.


*** About the bag:: I used it to "pipe" the filling into the hulled part of the strawberry. The bag is easier to fill if you put it in a cup with the corner of the bottom of the bag down into the cup. once its filled, just cut about 1/2 off the corner so you can squeeze out the cream cheese. Kind of like one of those things bakers use to decorate cakes. ***


*** Confectioners Sugar Substitutes:: If your recipe calls for powdered sugar to also act as bulk in the recipe, such as during baking, you can mix a sugar free powdered sugar substitute by taking 1 part artificial sweetener, 2 parts powdered milk and 2 parts cornstarch and grind in the blender. Use this on a 1 cup to 1 cup basis as a powdered sugar substitute.***

Anywho, I'm sure I made it sound way more complicated than it really is so please enjoy and let us know how you liked this version!
Here is what it should look like [=