Chocolate makes everything better!

Tonight at the Tearoom we started planning for a high tea for tomorrow.  Angie, one of my crew, mentioned something that she saw online.  So we decided to give it a whirl... Cheesecake filled strawberries!

That alone sounded fabulous to me, but I always try to tweak things a bit.

So, what if after we fill the berries we dip the top in chocolate so the filling would be a surprise.   You know chocolate makes everything better.  So we did.  The cheesecake end was dipped.  Then I thought -  OK wait a minute what if we left the stem on the berries, cut the top off about 1/4 of the way down, fill the berry then put the top back on and then dip the berry above the cut line to look like a regular chocolate covered strawberry.
We experimented with all of the above and then, another idea...  If after we fill the berry and dip it, like we did on the very first one (stem removed) set aside and let that chocolate harden, then dip the other side so the whole berry is covered. When the berry was sitting with the point side up completely covered with chocolate it reminded me of a giant Hershey kiss!

I then made  a little tag that said kiss and wrapped the chocolate covered strawberry  in foil.
 
So the next time you want to make chocolate covered strawberries why not fill them, personalize your own tag with anything you would like to say and wrap them up for a special kiss?

I love it when we have time to try and make fun things at the Tearoom BUT I also  make sure to send all of the experiments home with the staff or else those chocolate covered cuties would surely be calling by name at 2a.m.


Here's the filling recipe if you would like to try...
8 ounces of softened cream cheese
3 - 4 Tablespoons Powdered Sugar
1 teaspoon of vanilla.
Cream till smooth, after you fill the berries dip the end with the filling in graham cracker crumbs as if that were the cheesecake crust.  Serve after this step or try some of the chocolate ideas given.

This is super fast and super easy.  You never know this may be  "Another Exciting  Episode" on the Souper Woman page of my web site!  Watch for my next adventure.