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Chocolate Covered Strawberry Cheese Ball

This Chocolate Covered Strawberry Dessert Ball is perfect for your Easter or Spring parties. It's full of fresh strawberries, mini chocolate chips and cream cheese, blending cheesecake, strawberry butter cookie and chocolate covered strawberry flavors.
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Servings: 12 servings
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 16 ounces PHILADELPHIA 1/3 less fat cream cheese softened
  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter softened
  • 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1/2 cup fresh strawberries washed, hulled and puréed
  • 1 cup mini chocolate chips

Method
 

  1. Beat the cream cheese and butter together.
  2. Slowly beat in the powdered sugar.
  3. Beat in the vanilla and strawberry purée.
  4. (Dip Option) Stir in the chocolate chips, place in a bowl and refrigerate until ready to serve.
  5. (Cheese Ball Option) Pour into a plastic wrap covered bowl and refrigerate for one hour (or freeze for 20 minutes or until hard enough to work with). Layout another sheet of plastic wrap and sprinkle 1/2 cup of the chocolate chips onto the plastic wrap. Remove the ball from it's plastic wrap and roll onto the chocolate chips. Sprinkle the top of the ball with the remaining chocolate chips. Wrap the chocolate covered ball in the plastic wrap and place in the bowl. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

Notes

For the cheese ball option, refrigerate for one hour or freeze for 20 minutes before rolling in chocolate chips.