Strawberry Cheesecake Bites Recipe

Ingredients

8 ounces/227g whipped cream cheese

1 cup/130g powdered sugar

2-3 Tablespoons/30-45ml graham cracker crumbs

16 medium-large strawberries

Directions

In a food processor, combine cream cheese and powdered sugar.

Put the combined cream cheese and powdered sugar mixture in a bowl.

Put the graham cracker crumbs into another bowl.

Dip the wider end of a towel dried strawberry in the cream cheese mixture, then roll it around in the graham cracker crumbs.

*If the berries are excessively juicy, you can opt to scoop a small amount of the cream cheese filling and mold it around the base of the berry then dredge in the crumbs.

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