I absolutely love chocolate covered strawberries. There’s just something about the combination of hardened chocolate and soft, sweet strawberries that makes my taste buds sing.In honor of the Super Bowl– which is coming up this Sunday, February 5th, for those who don’t follow American football–I put together this tutorial.
If you’re going to a Super Bowl party, this snack is sure to wow your friends and family. Even if you won’t be watching the game, you can still whip up a batch of these football strawberries and share them with loved ones–or eat them all yourself!
For Super Bowl Sunday
Ingredients:
Milk, semisweet, or dark chocolate chips or melting chocolate (approximately 2 cups/12oz)
White chocolate chips or melting chocolate (approximately 1 cup/6oz)Directions:
Wash strawberries, and allow them to dry completely. Keep the stems on the strawberries.
Melt milk, semisweet, or dark chocolate on the stove or in the microwave. I prefer the microwave because I have found that it provides greater control over the melting process.
My melting process is as follows: Put chocolate chips in a microwave safe bowl, and microwave on high for 40 seconds. Remove and stir. Return to microwave for 20 seconds, and stir. Return to microwave for 15 seconds, and stir. If more melting is needed, return to microwave in 15-second intervals, stirring in between.
Grab the leaves of each strawberry, hold it over the bowl of melted chocolate, and gently run chocolate over the strawberry using a spoon. Allow the excess to drip off into the bowl. Scroll down to watch a video I made to explain this step further.
Place chocolate covered strawberries on a cookie sheet covered in plastic wrap, parchment paper, or wax paper. Allow strawberries to dry until the chocolate is fully hardened.
When hardened, melt the white chocolate. Unlike the dark chocolate, you don’t want to over-melt the white chocolate, or it will be runny and difficult to work with.
Pour melted white chocolate into a piping bag (also called a pastry bag) with a thin, circular tip.
Draw lines of white chocolate on strawberries as shown. You will need to work quickly so the white chocolate does not harden in the piping bag.
Place finished strawberries on a pan without a lining. (The lining may move and smudge your beautiful lines.) Allow white chocolate to dry fully before transporting strawberries.
Happy Super Bowl!
For Super Bowl Sunday
Ingredients:
Milk, semisweet, or dark chocolate chips or melting chocolate (approximately 2 cups/12oz)
White chocolate chips or melting chocolate (approximately 1 cup/6oz)Directions:
- Wash strawberries, and allow them to dry completely. Keep the stems on the strawberries.
- Melt
milk, semisweet, or dark chocolate on the stove or in the microwave. I
prefer the microwave because I have found that it provides greater
control over the melting process. - My melting process is
as follows: Put chocolate chips in a microwave safe bowl, and microwave
on high for 40 seconds. Remove and stir. Return to microwave for 20
seconds, and stir. Return to microwave for 15 seconds, and stir. If more
melting is needed, return to microwave in 15-second intervals, stirring
in between. - Grab the leaves of each strawberry, hold it over the
bowl of melted chocolate, and gently run chocolate over the strawberry
using a spoon. Allow the excess to drip off into the bowl. Scroll down
to watch a video I made to explain this step further. - Place chocolate
covered strawberries on a cookie sheet covered in plastic wrap,
parchment paper, or wax paper. Allow strawberries to dry until the
chocolate is fully hardened. - When hardened, melt the white chocolate.
Unlike the dark chocolate, you don’t want to over-melt the white
chocolate, or it will be runny and difficult to work with. - Pour melted white chocolate into a piping bag (also called a pastry bag) with a thin, circular tip.
Draw lines of white chocolate on strawberries as shown. You will need to
work quickly so the white chocolate does not harden in the piping bag. - Place finished strawberries on a pan without a lining. (The lining may
move and smudge your beautiful lines.) Allow white chocolate to dry
fully before transporting strawberries.