With cream cheese, REAL strawberries, graham crackers, and a wee bit of confectioners’ sugar. White chocolate’s involved too. Put it all together and cheesecake is now a finger food. Let’s get up close and personal on those truffles. ↓ Truth: I had a colossal meltdown making these 5 ingredient strawberry cheesecake truffles. When I wrote down the recipe on my to-bake list (which is literally an ongoing note on my iPhone), I kept picturing gorgeous pastel pink inside instead of this putrid brown. There wasn’t really a way to make those glistening pink truffles a reality, especially since I didn’t want to use any artificial strawberry flavoring. Let’s face it. Graham crackers mixed with cream cheese, sugar, and strawberries will be brown… with strawberries. Brown color aside, I had to share the truffles with you anyway. They taste unbelievable with this incredibly rich creaminess you only get from real cream cheese and is only enhanced with pure white chocolate. It’s all so good! This is what you’ll do. Grab your mixer or you can use a food processor to mix the cream cheese, graham crackers, and sugar. Let the machine break a sweat! Then gently fold in the itsy bitsy strawberries. The filling is a little wet from all of the strawberries. Don’t think you did anything wrong after it’s all mixed together because it WILL be sticky and moist. (Sorry.) To make it workable, simply spoon little ball shapes onto a piece of parchment paper. Refrigerate the little shapes until firm. Then you can neatly roll them, like so: Whenever I dip truffles, I always use this spiral dipping tool. Place the truffle in the white chocolate and lift it out with the dipping tool. Quickly flip it upside down on a lined baking sheet. You can see exactly how I do this in this video (scroll down for video): dark chocolate chocolate rum truffles. Go to the 1 minute mark. That’s how I dip and release truffles. So easy! For some color, reserve a little melted white chocolate to create a pretty pink drizzle. Stir in a drop of red or pink food coloring (I used deep pink from this set) and use an empty squeeze bottle for neat drizzles. Or use a fork. Or no drizzles at all. They’re great even without the drizzles, promise! There’s that pretty pink I was after! They’re so easy. A piece of (cheese)cake.
More Truffle Recipes:
Chocolate Hazelnut Crunch Truffles Healthy Dark Chocolate Almond Truffles Pumpkin Spice Truffles Peanut Butter M&Ms Truffles Dark Chocolate Key Lime Pie Truffles Cookie Dough Truffles Oreo Balls Rum Balls
