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Strawberry Cheesecake Truffles: Transform a store bought cheesecake (crust and all) into semi homemade cheesecake truffles. Now making your own Christmas truffles couldn’t be any easier. It only takes THREE ingredients to create these holiday treats. These incredible strawberry cheesecake truffles start with a whole cheesecake, has chopped freeze dried strawberries and are covered in dark chocolate. Perfect for you Christmas dessert table.

Strawberry Cheesecake Truffles

Strawberry Cheesecake Truffles—the perfect holiday treat

Strawberry Cheesecake Truffles
When there are too many Christmas dessert options and you can’t eat them all…..NOW YOU CAN! Well, at least a slice of cheesecake (Strawberry Cheesecake Truffles) and more. These semi homemade party treats will make the perfect addition to any Holiday Celebration.

What Cheesecake Works Best

Strawberry Cheesecake Truffles
When it comes to picking the cheesecake for these truffles, the choice is easy! You’re favorite store bought. That can be a fresh one from the bakery or frozen. I chose to use a bakery 40 ounce New York Style. I used the entire cheesecake including the crust! If you decide to go with a smaller cheesecake, remember that will also decrease the amount of truffles.

HOW TO MAKE SEMI HOMEMADE STRAWBERRY CHEESECAKE TRUFFLES

  • Use a fork to smash the cheesecake and crust together, making sure to leave some chunks of crust.
  • Fold in the chopped freeze dried strawberries.
  • With a 1½ inch cookie scoop—scoop mounds of the cheesecake mixture onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper—freeze one hour.
  • Roll into balls.
  • Melt chocolate, cover balls with chocolate, place back on baking sheet, refrigerate to harden.
  • NOTE: If adding chopped freeze dried strawberries to the tops of the truffles, add the strawberry pieces while the chocolate is still wet.
  • DRIZZLE: In a back and forth motion add the drizzle topping.
  • Store in the refrigerator until ready to serve.

ANOTHER SEMI HOMEMADE TRUFFLE RECIPE

Semi Homemade Pumpkin Pie Truffles
These incredible little treats start with a WHOLE PUMPKIN PIE and are covered in dark or white chocolate! CLICK HERE FOR THE RECIPE→SEMI HOMEMADE PUMPKIN PIE TRUFFLES

WHAT’S THE BEST CHOCOLATE FOR THE JOB?

Strawberry Cheesecake Truffles
It is my firm belief that the product you are creating is only as good as the ingredients you are using. For this recipe I used Ghirardelli. Not only does Ghirardelli offer great flavor but the candy wafers are really easy to work with and melt beautifully. NOTE: As time goes by the freeze dried strawberries will soften while in the truffles
Strawberry Cheesecake Truffles

MORE TRUFFLE RECIPES

WHITE CHOCOLATE CHRISTMAS EGGNOG TRUFFLES 2. CAKE DONUT TRUFFLES 3. ANCHO CHILE TRUFFLES 4. DARK CHOCOLATE COOKIE BUTTER TRUFFLES 5. CHOCOLATROUGE WINE TRUFFLES 6. BLUEBERRY LEMON TRUFFLES
Strawberry Cheesecake Truffles
Strawberry Cheesecake Truffles

Strawberry Cheesecake Truffles

Yield: 45 TRUFFLES

Transform a store bought cheesecake (crust and all) into semi homemade cheesecake truffles. Now making your own Christmas truffles couldn't be any easier.

Ingredients

For the Truffles:

  • 1 (40 ounce) New York Style cheesecake
  • 1 (1 ounce) bag freeze dried strawberries, chopped

For the Coating:

  • 25 ounces dark chocolate wafers, preferably Ghirardelli ( about 2½ bags)
  • 1 (1 ounce) bag freeze dried strawberries, chopped

Instructions

For the Truffles:

  1. Mix together the cheesecake and strawberries.
  2. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
  3. Scoop (with a 1½ inch cookie scoop) 45 mounds.
  4. Place on the prepared cookie sheet.
  5. Freeze 1 hour.
  6. Roll into smooth balls.

For the Coating:

  1. Pour chocolate into a medium microwave safe bowl.
  2. Heat 1 minute on high, stir and continue heating in 30 second increments at 60% power until chocolate is creamy.
  3. Drop truffle in melted chocolate or place on a fork and spoon the chocolate over the truffle.
  4. Place on prepared cookie sheet.
  5. IF CHOOSING TO ADD SPRINKLES OF CHOPPED FREEZE DRIED STRAWBERRIES MAKE SURE TO ADD THEM WHEN THE CHOCOLATE IS WET.
  6. Spoon remaining melted chocolate into a small zip top bag or piping bag, snip the corner and in a back and forth motion add a drizzle to the top of the truffles.

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© Sheryl

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