Chocolate Dipped Frosted Strawberries - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 or 2 qt. boxes large strawberries (8 to 16)
1 (12 oz.) pkg. semi-sweet chocolate morsels
1 (8 oz.) pkg. light cream cheese at room temperature
8 or 12 oz. confectioners sugar
1 tsp. vanilla

Preparation

Prepare 2 or more layers of paper towels to drain washed strawberries.
Wash and clean berries.
Cut caps off, making a flat surface on berries.
Also, cut cross down 1/3 of the pointed end of each berry.
Drain berries on paper towels for about 1 hour or until completely dry.
(Chocolate will not adhere to berries if berries are wet.) Wrap a cookie sheet in aluminum foil.
Melt about half of the chocolate morsels in small dish in the microwave or in a small pan on the stove or in top of double boiler over hot water, stirring with chop stick until smooth.
Do not add any water, milk or other liquid.
Mix cream cheese, confectioners sugar and vanilla, adding the confectioners sugar to cream cheese in small amounts until thick.
Dip a berry into melted chocolate, covering bottom of berry and about 1/4 up the sides.
Place immediately on foil covered cookie sheet.
Melt additional chocolate as needed.