White Chocolate Strawberry Cups

White chocolate strawberry cups are a wonderful, refreshing spring/summer dessert full of fresh strawberry flavor, paired with sweet white chocolate and light and fluffy whipped cream cheese frosting. They look so beautiful and complicated to make but trust me when I say it is an absolutely simple and beginner-friendly recipe. Don´t let the looks scare you 🙂 Try making them this strawberry season. You´ll fall in love with them for sure!

Why You´ll Love These White Chocolate Strawberry Cups?

• they are absolutely delicious
• even though they look complicated, they are actually very easy to make
• they are a perfect party dessert
• you can make them with different kind of fruit every time
• they look beautiful

How Are These Strawberry Cups Made?

These white chocolate strawberry cups consist of 4 simple layers, 2 of them being one ingredient only:

White chocolate cups

The cups are made of white chocolate. We are adding just a little bit of oil to it to make it easier to work with. Other than white chocolate and oil for making these cups you will need paper/silicon muffin cups and preferably a muffin baking tin. I know these cups look really fancy but trust me when I say they are really easy to make. All you have to do is melt chocolate with some oil, smear it on the insides of a paper muffin cup, and put it in the fridge or freezer until it hardens. The important thing is to put these paper cups inside of a muffin baking thin. Otherwise they might lose their shape. After that, you will have to repeat the procedure by covering all the places that look really thin or uneven and put it in the fridge again. Once your cups are firm, remove the paper cup and that´s it!

Pound cake or cookies

In this recipe both pound cake and cookies will work just fine. I used pound cake but it´s totally up to you. Whether you are using cake or cookies, crumble it as good as you can, and cover the bottom of the cup with it.

Strawberries

The space inside of the cups is limited so you want to dice your strawberries in small pieces. That way you won’t have too much free space between the pieces, and you will be able to fit more strawberries inside, and that´s always a plus. This recipe would work great with any other fruit as well, especially berries. So if you want to make these and you can´t get any fresh strawberries, don´t worry. You definitely won´t go wrong with raspberries, blueberries, or any other fruit you like basically.

Frosting

For this frosting, you will need low-fat cream cheese (you can use full fat if you want), heavy cream, strawberry jam, and vanilla sugar. We want to keep it light and fluffy. I also used very little sugar. You can increase the amount if you want. I didn´t want to overdo it, considering the white chocolate is really sweet.

Can I Freeze These White Chocolate Strawberry Cups?

Unfortunately, I will have to disappoint you on this one. I definitely wouldn´t recommend freezing them. The whipped cream frosting and the strawberries might get too soggy after defrosting them. But on the bright side, it just means you´ll have an excuse to eat them all 🙂

If you are a true berry lover, make sure you try my Lemon Raspberry Cupcakes and Lemon Berry Cupcakes as well.

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White Chocolate Strawberry Cups

Author: Paula Courses: Dessert Recipe Keys: C cup F fruity dessert S strawberries W white chocolate

Difficulty: Beginner Prep Time 60 min Rest Time 20 min Total Time 1 hr 20 mins

Servings: 12

Best Season: Spring

Ingredients

Servings

For the cups:

• 250 grams white chocolate
• 1 teaspoon oil (I used sunflower)

For the frosting:

• 400 grams cream cheese (I used low fat, but you can use normal cream cheese if you prefer)
• 400 milliliters heavy cream
• 3 tablespoons strawberry jam
• 20 grams vanilla sugar (you can substitute for sugar and vanilla extract. Use more sugar if you want.)
• 2 packages (20 g) Whip it (whipped cream stabilizer)

Additional:

• 250 grams strawberries
• 150 grams pound cake or cookies (I used pound cake)

Optional:

• freeze-dried strawberries for decoration

Instructions

1. For the cups:

   Put white chocolate and oil into a bowl and place it on top of a pot with some water in it.

   Place the pot on the stove. As the water starts to boil the steam will start melting the chocolate. Make sure the bowl is not touching the water. It should have contact only with the steam.

   Alternatively, you can melt your chocolate in the microwave. If you choose to do so, melt it in short intervals and check on it often. Otherwise, the chocolate might start to burn.

   Now that your chocolate is melted, we can start making the cups.
   Just apply the chocolate on the insides of a paper muffin cup. Make sure you cover the sides and the bottom.

   Place the muffin cup inside of the muffin baking tin. That will ensure your cups stay round and don´t lose shape.

   Put them in the fridge or freezer. Once they´re firm, you can repeat the process. This time apply chocolate only on parts that seem very thin and see-through. Put in the freezer/fridge again and wait until they firm up.

   Now gently remove the paper cups and your cups are done!

2. Assembling the cups:

   Crumble your cookies or pound cake and cover the bottom of the cup with it. You can also lightly press it in.

   Dice the strawberries and place on top of your cookie/pound cake crumbles

3. For the frosting:

   Beat cream cheese with jam and sugar. Add heavy cream. Beat on low speed for a minute.

   Add Whipp it! (or some other whipped cream stabilizer) and continue beating at high speed until you get stiff peaks.

   Transfer the frosting into a piping bag and decorate your cups.

   Decorate the cups with freeze-dried strawberries (like I did), or anything else that comes to your mind.

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