Easy Shower Recipe: Stuffed Strawberries

Instead of dipping your fresh strawberries, why not stuff them? It's a new spin on an old Southern favorite. I cannot remember a bridal or baby shower where there was not a big bowl of some sort of dip for strawberries. I made this recipe about 100 years ago for a wedding and haven't made it since- until last week when I thought about it for my royal wedding viewing party. I changed it up a little; only because I could not remember the exact recipe. But this one is awfully good!

Stuffed Strawberries

1 quart fresh whole strawberries

1 8 ounce block of cream cheese, softened

1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed

1/3 cup Grand Marnier

1/2 teaspoon orange zest

1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 cup sour cream

In a bowl, combine Grand Marnier, vanilla, and brown sugar. In the bowl of your mixer, beat cream cheese and sour cream together. Once blended, add the brown sugar mixture and the orange zest and beat until the brown sugar is dissolved. Spoon into a Ziploc bag and chill.

Cut the top off the strawberries. The flat surface will become the bottom. Cut a cross in the other end of the strawberry, taking care not to cut all the way through. Basically, you make four petals... put these on a tray or pan that you can fit into the fridge.

Push the filling into the corner of the bag and barely snip off the tip. Pipe the cream into the middle of each strawberry. Chill until serving time.

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