Cheese Cake Pops

Yield: 25 pops
Recipe & Photo: Ron Yochananov

Ingredients:

  • Tnuva Premium Cheese Spread, Original Flavor, 1 container OR Tnuva Quark Cream Soft Cheese, 9%
  • 8 ounces vanilla cookies, crushed fine
  • 1/4 cup confectionary sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla flavoring
  • 1 teaspoon lemon zest
  • 5 tablespoons heavy cream
  • Fresh cherries (pitted) or blueberries for filling the cake pops

Coating:

  • 3.5 ounces vanilla cookies, crushed fine

Instructions:

  1. Combine the crushed cookies with the cheese, sugar, vanilla, lemon zest and heavy cream. Mix well.
  2. Chill for about a half hour until firm.
  3. With wet hands, form a ball around a blueberry or pitted cherry. Coat the ball in the crushed cookies.
  4. If desired, put each cake pop on a lollipop stick. Chill and serve.