Replacing Incandescent Rope Lighting with LED lighting strip

I currently have Incandescence Rope Lighting hardwired to a switch underneath my kitchen cabinets, they have now mostly burned out. My husband purchased LED strip lighting to replace it, however it has a plug. The first option we thought was to put in electrical outlets. Question is can the plug on the LED strip lighting be spliced into the current wiring that is available? Or would we just be better off putting in the electrical outlets?