Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries!!

This is a wonderful dessert! Last night we had some new friends over and I really wanted to surprise them with a dessert to remember and love.  All I can say about these are... I wish I had made more.

Here is the recipe.

Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries
from The Sweets Life

Ingredients:
1 lb large strawberries
8 oz. cream cheese, soften
4 tbsp powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
graham cracker crumbs

Cut off the tops of the strawberries and hallow out middle. This is where you are going to put the cheesecake filling.

Next, mix the cream cheese, powdered sugar, and vanilla extract together thoroughly. You want to make sure there are no lumps of cream cheese left. 

I put this mixture into a piping bag in order to neatly apply the filling into the strawberries. You can also use a spoon to scope the filling in.

After filling all the strawberries, arrange them nicely on a plate, and sprinkle the graham cracker crumbs on top.

When finished, cover the plate or bowl lightly and put in the fridge to keep cool until ready to serve.

This recipe was so good that I think I am going to write it down and keep it in my recipe box so as not to loose it. I will be making these again. Next time I though I will know to make more.

Enjoy!

New Friends, Fun Food, and PUPPIES!

Last night we had our new friends Alex and Matt over for dinner and a puppy play date. It was a lot of fun. They brought over their pretty little lady, Lucky.

She met our very excited puppy, Dutch. They did pretty well together. Lucky has general problems with other dogs, so it was a tricky introductions. Matt and Alex are trying to get her use to other dogs to help acclimate her and so we let her meet Dutch. Dutch on the other hand LOVES everyone, people and dogs. So when Lucky would growl or get nervous around Dutch, Dutch just thought she wanted to play. It turned out well and by the end of the night they were laying on the kitchen floor together. 

Dutch and Lucky meeting each other. 

Then, after the pups had a chance to meet each other, we had dinner. Matt and Alex were very nice in bringing over some tasty bruschetta. (Sorry we forgot to take a picture of it.) Then Mark made some flavorful kabobs and I made some roasted potatoes and carrots.

Add some wine and it was a delectable dinner. For dessert I wanted something easy and delicious. So where else would I turn but pintrest.com. I found this recipe for cheesecake stuffed strawberries. They were amazing. The time to make them was so little compared to the taste. I will defiantly be making these again.  I will post the recipe next.

After this we played a fun and competitive card game of Phase 10. It was a great night and I am happy that we have our new friends, Matt and Alex.

Lucky!

Dutch saying hi to Alex!

Alex and Lucky... They are so cute!