Well, here is the last of our fresh picked strawberries! Sitting on top of a cream cheese filling with semisweet chocolate drizzled on top of them. This pie was delicious! As I’m sitting here thinking of how to describe to you the taste of this pie this is what comes to mind, a chocolate covered strawberry with a little cream filling, oh and throw in a bit of a flakey crunch from the pie crust! That is how it tasted to me. Everyone loved this pie and it did not last long. I will be making this many many more times. I adapted the recipe from my cookbook Taste of Home’s Contest Winning Annual Recipes 2006.
The ingredients are:
- 3 squares (1 ounce each) semisweet chocolate, divided
- 1 Tablespoon butter
- 1 pastry shell (9 inches), baked
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- 4 Tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 to 4 cups fresh strawberries, hulled
- 1/3 cup strawberry jam, melted
- In a saucepan, melt 2 ounces chocolate and butter over low heat, stirring constantly; spread or brush over the bottom and up the sides of pastry shell. Chill.
- Meanwhile, in a mixing bowl, beat cream cheese, sugar and vanilla until smooth. Spread over chocolate layer; cover and chill for about 1 hour.
- Arrange strawberries, tip end up, atop the filling. Brush jam over strawberries. Melt the remaining chocolate and drizzle over all.
Yield: 6-8 servings
oh wow! This looks so delicious! =)
Thank you! 🙂
It looks so delicious and simple to make yum!
It was very simple and delicious! Thank you for commenting!
Just gorgeous and a clever combination of pie and fruit tart elements.
Thank you so much!
Love the strawberry photo in your header. I don’t know where you live, but we just got to the end of our local strawberries here in MI – so sad. They were so delicious.
Thanks for visiting my blog.
I live in southern california and we are still enjoying strawberries here. Your welcome for the visit and thank you for the return!