How to Make Chocolate Covered Strawberries

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By Elander Guthrie
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Make Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Are you looking for new and exciting ways of adding fruit to your diet? Are you hopelessly addicted to all things chocolate? How do chocolate covered strawberries sound? Once you have successfully mastered the art of tempering chocolate, you will need something to do with all of that molten goodness. Tempered chocolate is particularly well suited to dipping and coating all manner of treats, and is the most difficult step in the making of chocolate covered strawberries. These make a great healthy snack, a romantic gift, or the perfect way to end a meal.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

Strawberries
Chocolate

Step 1

Temper your chocolate and maintain at a warm, but not hot temperature, between 85 and 90 degrees F. A heating pad set to low will help maintain an even heat. Use a high quality gourmet dark chocolate for best results, as the bitterness contrasts nicely in the finished chocolate covered strawberries.
Step 2

Dip your fruit into the chocolate, submerging it completely to ensure a complete coat. Use a pair of forks to spin it around a bit to ensure total coverage.
Step 3

Remove your chocolate covered strawberries with forks and allow the chocolate to drain away for several seconds so the coating is not too thick, unless, of course, you want a thick layer.
Step 4

Deposit your treats onto a tray, plate, or sheet pan lined with wax paper. The wax paper is key, as these newly dipped treats will quite happily stick to just about anything you put them on.
Step 5

Garnish with a bit of cocoa powder, powdered sugar, or any other coating you find appropriate. You could even put melted white chocolate in a squeeze bottle and paint lines across the finished chocolate covered strawberries.
Step 6

Move your tray of chocolate covered strawberries to the freezer for about ten minutes so the coating can harden. You can let them cool on the counter, but the coat will run a little bit and they will not be as shiny.
Step 7

Remove from freezer and enjoy. If you leave them in the freezer too long, the coating will crack a bit and the fruit will give off moisture when thawed. Only freeze them completely if you have a flash freezer or if they are small enough to eat whole and without thawing.
Step 8

Wrap any excess chocolate covered strawberries in foil or plastic and store in a cool, dry place, that is, if there are any left over.