How to Make Chocolate Strawberries

Chocolate covered strawberries are a beautiful gift for someone you love. They are an elegant treat any time. They also make a great birthday treat to share with a class a little bit of healthy goodness and little bit of decadent chocolate.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Strawberries ( stems make a more beautiful presentation but ripe strawberries are fine)
• semisweet chocolate ( chips are fine)
• white chocolate (optional)
• wax paper

1. Prepare your strawberries to be dipped in chocolate. Wash them very gently and allow them to dry. At this point lay out wax paper on a cookie sheet large enough to accommodate the chocolate strawberries.

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   chocolate melted!

   Melt the chocolate. Place your chocolate chips in a microwavable bowl and heat a med power for 30 sec. Stir the chips and heat again. Keep heating until the chocolate is melted all the way through.

3. Gently take the strawberry by the stem and dip into chocolate until the strawberry is covered in chocolate all the way round up to its shoulders.

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   Place on wax paper

5. (Optional Step) Melt the white chocolate just as you melted the semisweet chocolate. And drizzle and dot and generally decorate with the white chocolate

6. Leave it until the chocolate is set. This takes about 30 minutes.

Tips & Warnings

• Try polka dots with the white chocolate they are fun and easy!

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on 8/15/2009 yummy 5*