Description
Ready to make homemade chocolate-covered strawberries?
Ingredients
Ingredients:
- Fresh strawberries (as many as you’d like, with stems intact)
- High-quality dark, milk, or white chocolate (or a combination of real chocolate)
- Optional toppings: Crushed nuts, sprinkles, coconut flakes, or white chocolate for drizzling
Alternative Ingredients for This Recipe
- Strawberries – Pineapple, apple, raspberries, cherries (with stem), banana slices
- Chocolate – Vanilla sauce, vegan chocolate, Orange-flavored, mint-flavored chocolate, ruby chocolate, pink candy melts, semi-sweet chocolate chips, white chocolate melts
- Toppings
- crushed nuts – almonds, pecans, pistachios, hazelnuts
- seeds – hemp seeds, chia seeds, sesame seeds
- cinnamon or chili powder
- edible flowers
- edible gold leaf
- mini chocolate chips
- candy sprinkles
- crushed candy bars for candy coatings
- coarse sea salt
- melted caramel or butterscotch drizzle
Instructions
- Start preparing the juicy strawberries by gently rinsing them and patting them completely dry, that way the chocolate can completely adhere.Tip: If you want to disinfect the strawberries from mold, pesticide residue, or anything else that could be on them, give them a vinegar-water bar (1 cup vinegar for 3 cups water) for a few minutes before drying them completely – no worries, there won’t be a vinegar smell or taste to them!
- While your strawberries are drying, break your high quality chocolate into small pieces and melt chocolate using a pot or microwave with a microwave-safe bowl.Tip: If you’re using a microwave, heat the chocolate in short bursts of 20-30 seconds while stirring in between until it’s completely melted – otherwise you risk the chocolate to cook and caramelize (true story!) If you’re using a pot to melt the chocolate in a heat-safe glass bowl, do so on low heat.
- When the strawberries are dry and the chocolate is melted, dip each strawberry by the stem into the melted chocolate, then swirl it gently in it to coat it evenly before you lift it and gently shake off any excess of the chocolate. Use any leftover chocolate either as a drizzle on top of these strawberries as another layer of texture, or to coat other fruits.
- (optional): If you’re using toppings, add them while the chocolate is still wet. So, if you’re using white chocolate that you melted separately, drizzle it over it using a fork. Alternatively, you can also dip the chocolate-covered strawberries into the white chocolate (tip only!) or other toppings.
- When done, place strawberries on a lined baking sheet with parchment paper and allow the chocolate to set completely, either at room temperature or by placing them into the fridge for 15-20 minutes.
Lastly, place them on a dessert tray with small bowls of other fruits (chocolate-dipped or not) and enjoy them either on the same day or within the next 24 hours!
If you want to have a romantic setting, consider scattering some rose petals around the area where you’ll eat and light some soft candles!