Chocolate Covered Strawberries
Recipe & Video

This is a mouth-watering chocolate covered strawberries recipe that will have everyone eager to taste. The valuable video will enable you to make these attractive morsels with ease. They are delicious to eat and fun to prepare with friends or family lending you a hand. Who wouldn’t volunteer to help make these chocolate delights?

They are not difficult to make. To get good results, you will want to use good ingredients. Choose large firm ones and a good quality, dark chocolate which contains a high cocoa content.

These delicacies are quick to make using the following easy chocolate covered strawberries recipe. But, if you want to make them professional looking, it is necessary to temper the chocolate, which really isn't difficult, especially if you have a candy thermometer. See the video below the recipe on how to temper chocolate.

• Clean the fruit with cool water. Ensure they are completely dry before dipping so the chocolate will stick.
• Put wax paper on cookie sheet.
• Place microwave safe bowl with the chocolate chips into microwave. Melt on low for 30 seconds, remove and stir. Continue process of softening for 20 seconds and then stirring process of softening until chocolate is completely melted. For melting details, click here: Melting Chocolate page.
• Dip the lower half to two-thirds of strawberry into chocolate and place on wax paper.
• Put cookie sheet in refrigerator for about 30 minutes or until the chocolate has cooled and is firm. You can then remove from the wax paper.
• Serve on a fancy platter or tray.

• You can do many variations and designs with dark, milk, and white chocolate.

• Melt small amount of white chocolate to drizzle over top the dark chocolate.

• Dip in white chocolate first and then drizzle dark chocolate over top.

• Sprinkle very fine sugar, powdered sugar, finely chopped almonds, pecans, or pistachio nuts after dipping in chocolate.

• Create a fancy design like this photo by using a toothpick to paint the tie and buttons with chocolate. You can do it!

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