The ultimate chocolate covered strawberries.

I love chocolate covered strawberries, but these are like the Louis Vuitton of Chocolate covered strawberries(I also love Louis Viutton). I made them for my Dad and Husband for fathers day, and they loved them. Even my father in law who hates cheesecake (which these are filled with) loved them. If you want to replace the chocolate with white chocolate or use another kind of nut, or even toffee or coconut, then feel free. Good luck not eating them before they set up.


8-10 large strawberries
16 ounces of milk chocolate chips
8 ounces of ready made cheesecake filling
4 tablespoons of chopped pecans
Cut the top off the strawberries and remove their cores. Using a pastry bag or seal able plastic bag, fill the strawberries with cheesecake filling.

Melt chocolate chips in a microwave safe bowl, cooking in 30-second increments, stirring in between. Dip the top half of each strawberry in the chocolate. Sprinkle with chopped pecans.

Refrigerate for about 20 minutes.

Recipe serves six.

Mini Fresh Peach crumb cakes. Yum!!!

I love fresh peaches... and I really love baked goods. A trait which is apparently is somewhat genetic. I thought my daughters head was going to explode because I couldn't get MY cheesecake into her mouth fast enough at brunch the other day. Anywho, this recipe is really good and super easy. I made it as the TV station last week, and my camera man as well as a couple of reporters were eating them straight out the oven. I'd like to personally apologize for any esophegial burns that these tempting little cakes will cause when you can wait for them to cool before you eat them. Enjoy

1 box of yellow cake mix
3 eggs
1/3 cup of vegetable oil
1 1/4 cup of water
1 stick of butter
1/2 cup of flour
1/2 cup of white sugar
1/2 cup of brown sugar
4 fresh peaches, sliced


Combine cake mix with eggs, water and vegetable oil. Using your hands, combine butter, both sugars and the flour until it comes to a crumbly consistency.
Portion about a quarter cup of batter into greased or cupcake paper lined muffin tin. Arrange slices of fresh peach on top of batter and top with 2 tablespoons of crumb mixture.
Bake at 350 degrees until a toothpick stuck into center of cupcake comes out clean. Recipe serves eight to ten.