Name: Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries
Prep time: 25 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 pound strawberries; 8 ounces cream cheese, room temperature; 1 teaspoon vanilla; 4 tablespoons powdered sugar; 1/3 cup roasted, salted almonds, chopped

These Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries taste just like no bake mini cheesecakes. One of our favorite easy desserts to make for parties!

This post was originally published in 2014 and updated in 2020.

Cheesecake stuffed strawberries on a wooden cutting board

Do you have a handful of easy desserts that you always fall back on? You’ll want to add this Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries recipe to that list! Simple but decadent, these bite size desserts always disappear.

Cheesecake + strawberries = A definite crowd favorite!

Strawberries on a wood cutting board with a bowl of cheesecake filling and a bowl of crushed almonds.

Ingredients

This easy dessert recipe only has 5 ingredients:

Strawberries - Pick the largest and ripest berries you can find. You’ll be digging out a well in the berries to load in the cheesecake mixture so you want enough room to be generous with that filling.
Cream cheese
Powdered sugar
Vanilla extract
Toppings - more on that below

Small bowls of crushed Oreos, graham crackers and almonds next to strawberries and cheesecake filling.

Cheesecake toppings for stuffed strawberries

Just like there are hundreds of flavors of cheesecake, there are countless options for toppings for these cheesecake stuffed strawberries. Here are some suggestions:

Roasted and salted almonds - my personal favorite. There is just something so irresistible about that salty sweet combination!
Oreos (or other chocolate cookie)
Graham crackers
Vanilla wafers
Biscoff cookies
Gingersnaps
Melted white or dark chocolate (for drizzling)
Mini chocolate chips
Candied nuts
Colorful sugars or sprinkles (fun for a special occasion like a baby shower, Easter or the Fourth of July)

NOTE: Nut toppings are coarsely chopped while cookies and crackers are finely crushed. You can either crush them in a large plastic bag using a kitchen mallet or give them a spin in the food processor to finely pulverize them.

Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries on a wood cutting board

Instructions

Now that you’ve assembled your ingredients, let’s make this recipe!

Clean and dry your strawberries. Use a small sharp knife to take off the greens and cut a deep, cone-shaped cavity in each berry. You want the cavity to be deep enough to hold a generous amount of cheesecake filling but not so deep that you carve out most of the inner flesh of the berry. Set berries aside. Tip: This trimming knife is my favorite kitchen tool for this recipe. It has a short, narrow blade that gives you a lot of control when carving the berries.
Put your prepared topping in a shallow bowl. Set aside.
Place your room temperature cream cheese in a medium bowl. Add powdered sugar and vanilla and mix until smooth. The cheesecake filling will be thick; that’s ok. You need a thicker consistency for piping it into the berries.
Spoon the filling into the plastic bag, squeeze it toward one end of the bag and snip a small corner off one end of the filled bag. Voila! You have a makeshift piping bag! (If you own a proper piping bag, feel free to use it for this step.)
Equally pipe the filling into the berries. You’ll notice some recipes call for you to cut off the bottom of the strawberry so they stand upright on a plate or platter. That step is totally optional; I skip it.
Dip the tops of the cheesecake filled strawberries into the filling and place on serving platter.

Strawberries on a wooden board stuffed with cheesecake filling and topped with crushed almonds

Can you make these Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries in advance?

Making this recipe for a party? You can do almost everything ahead of time: carve out the strawberries, prep the topping(s) and make the cheesecake filling.

The only thing you can’t do is actually assemble the strawberries. I would hold off on stuffing and dipping the strawberries until just before serving to prevent berry juice from weeping into the cheesecake filling and/or the cracker and cookie toppings from getting mushy.

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Strawberries lying on a wood cutting board that are filled with cheesecake filling and topped with chopped almonds

More easy, no bake cheesecake recipes

You can find all of our dessert recipes in our archives.

Don’t forget the after dinner drink to go with these Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries!

Yield: Serves 8-10