Description
Crisp sugar-dusted tortilla shells filled with fluffy vanilla cheesecake cream, crowned with a nostalgic strawberry crunch and fresh juicy berries for the ultimate handheld dessert.
Ingredients
- Flour tortillas, small taco size: 8 pieces
- Cream cheese, softened: 8 oz
- Heavy cream, cold: 1 cup
- Powdered sugar: 3/4 cup
- Vanilla extract: 1 teaspoon
- Unsalted butter, melted: 3 tablespoons
- Granulated sugar, for shells: 1/4 cup
- Golden sandwich cookies, crushed: 20 cookies
- Freeze-dried strawberries, crushed: 1 cup
- Fresh strawberries, diced: 1 1/2 cups
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°F, turn a muffin tin upside down. Cut tortillas into rounds if needed, brush both sides with melted butter, and sprinkle with granulated sugar.
- Drape tortillas over the inverted muffin tin grooves to form taco shapes. Bake 8 to 10 minutes until golden and crisp. Cool completely.
- Beat cream cheese until smooth. Add powdered sugar and vanilla extract, mixing until creamy.
- Whip heavy cream to soft peaks and gently fold into the cream cheese mixture until light and fluffy. Chill filling 20 minutes.
- Stir together crushed cookies, crushed freeze-dried strawberries, and remaining melted butter until sandy and clumpy.
- Pipe or spoon cheesecake filling into each cooled taco shell.
- Top with strawberry crunch mixture and finish with diced fresh strawberries. Serve immediately.
Notes
- Note: Chill the filling well so it pipes cleanly and holds its shape.
- Shape shells evenly using the muffin tin for neat, uniform tacos.
- Assemble just before serving to keep shells crisp.
- For brightness, add 1 teaspoon lemon zest to the filling.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Bake and Chill
- Cuisine: American Fusion
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 taco
- Calories: 340
- Sugar: 22 g
- Sodium: 180 mg
- Fat: 20 g
- Saturated Fat: 12 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 7 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 35 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 4 g
- Cholesterol: 55 mg
Keywords: strawberry crunch, cheesecake tacos, dessert tacos, no bake cheesecake, party dessert, summer dessert