Wondering what you could gift your lover on their birthday? Or maybe you are planning to propose to your crush? Or are you hunting for a valentines’ day gift?
We have got you the best and most unique surprise gifts for your loved ones. Chocolate Covered Strawberries recipe is the most adorable surprise you could ever prepare for your lover.
History of Chocolate Strawberries
Chocolate Covered Strawberries was a random discovery in the 1960s when a small shop owner – Lorraine Lorruso in Chicago, dipped fresh strawberries into the tempered chocolate and displayed it for her customers.
In a few hours, her chocolate strawberries became an overnight sensation. And this random discovery is a constant blessing for 21-century love birds.
Let us dive into the recipe right away and look at how to make Chocolate Covered Strawberries.
Chocolate Covered Strawberries Recipes
We are going to learn 3 types of Chocolate covered Strawberries recipes. The First one is the basic Chocolate Covered Strawberries, the second comes the colorful Chocolate Strawberries, and the last is the marbled Glazed Chocolate Covered Strawberries.
Choosing the Right Chocolate
When it comes to Chocolate for layering Strawberries, it is important to choose the right kind of Chocolate. You can use Dark Chocolate, milk chocolate, white chocolate, or semi-sweet chocolate. Make sure you get chocolate that consists of good quality cocoa butter.
Baking chocolate works wonders. Bakers usually prefer Ghirardelli dark melting chocolate, Wilton White candy melts, Guittard milk melting chocolate, Hershey’s chocolate bar, Lindt chocolate bar, and Godiva milk chocolate.
Choosing the Right Strawberry
For a perfect Chocolate covered strawberries recipe, you should buy strawberries that have a leafy top. It is easier to work with plus looks pretty.
Make sure the strawberries are a bit tighter than usual, as they are going to sweat in a day or two. Use organic strawberries as they last longer.
While preparing the strawberries, completely dry them with paper towels, or else, chocolate would not stick it the wet surface.
1. Basic Chocolate Covered Strawberries recipe
The basic Chocolate Covered Strawberries recipe consists of two basic versions of Chocolate layer strawberries – Brown and white Chocolate.
Preparation
To prepare the recipe, you would require some fresh strawberries, Chocolate dark milk or white, parchment paper, and a toothpick.
STEP ONE – Soak the strawberries in 1 cup of water mixed with 1/4 cup of vinegar for 30 minutes. This step is important to protect the berries from harmful bacteria and molds.
STEP TWO- Add all the chocolate with some coconut oil into a glass bowl. If you are tempering in the microwave, make sure you are using a microwave-safe bowl. Coconut oil helps chocolate thicken faster.
STEP THREE- Temper chocolate by double boiler method and stir constantly, or microwave it for 3o secs. Please note the temperature of chocolate should not be more than 90° F. The ideal temperature should be 86° F for dark chocolate and 84° f for white chocolate.
STEP FOUR – While your chocolate temper, pat dry prepare strawberries, and insert the toothpick in the middle of the stem area (petiole) of the strawberry. Use room temperature strawberries.
STEP FIVE – After tempering the chocolate, hold the strawberry from the toothpick and dip it into the chocolate coating. Dip 3/4 of the strawberry into the chocolate.
STEP SIX- After dipping in, take out the strawberry and shake off the excess chocolate drip. Remember not to wipe the chocolate on the strawberry in the bowl as it will leave a patch of strawberry uncovered.
STEP SEVEN – Take a sheet pan, place the parchment paper, and put the chocolate-covered strawberries on it.
STEP EIGHT– Let the strawberries dry at room temperature. If you live in a humid or hot climate, dry strawberries in the refrigerator for 30 mins so it gets hard.
STEP NINE- Your Chocolate Covered Strawberries are ready to serve. Enjoy!
2. Colorful Chocolate Covered Strawberries
For this recipe, you will need- white chocolate, food Color, Strawberries, a parchment-lined baking sheet, and toothpicks.
For complete instructions, kindly go through the basic version of the recipe.
STEP ONE- Temper the white chocolate, and divide it into 3 to 4 separate glass bowls.
STEP TWO– Add food color to each bowl as per your choice. The popular colors are red, pink, purple and blue.
STEP THREE– Wash and completely dry the strawberries, and insert the toothpick into their neck. Hold the strawberries from the toothpick, dip them in the colored Chocolate, shake it off and let them dry on the parchment paper.
STEP FOUR– Serve the colorful chocolate covered strawberries.
3. Marble Glazed Chocolate Strawberries
For marble glazed chocolate-covered strawberries, you will need colored chocolate(at least two colors), a piping bag, melted white chocolate, strawberries, and toothpicks.
STEP ONE – Fill two piping bags with different colorful melted chocolates and keep them aside.
STEP TWO- Wash the strawberries, pat dry, and insert a toothpick into each strawberry.
STEP THREE – Pour some white melted chocolate into a glass bowl and make a two-color zig-zag pattern on the surface of the white chocolate. Use the piping bag to make the two-color zig-zag pattern.
STEP FOUR– Hold your strawberry from the toothpick, dip it in the white chocolate and swirl it while taking it out from the melted chocolate.
STEP FIVE – After taking out the chocolate mixture, you will notice the marbled effect glaze in the strawberry. Let it sit on the baking sheet for 30 minutes at room temperature or in case of a very humid and hot climate, refrigerate it for 30 minutes.
Your marble glazed chocolate-covered strawberries are ready.
Types of decoration for chocolate covered strawberries
For marble glazed strawberries, decoration is unnecessary. We will see how to decorate the basic version and color version of strawberries.
Chocolate Drizzle
The most basic version of decoration is the chocolate drizzle.
You will need a chocolate piping bag – any chocolate (colored/non-colored) would work. If you do not have a piping bag, you can simply pour melted chocolate into a bowl and a palette knife.
Hold the strawberry at a 45-degree angle, and drizzle the chocolate from the piping bag. In the case of a palette knife, drizzle the chocolate using the little back and forth movement of the hand.
Set the Strawberries at room temperature.
Chopped Chocolate
A basic decoration that just includes covering the chocolate covered strawberries with the chopped chocolate and letting them sit dry.
Sprinkles
Another lovely and simple decoration idea is to add on sprinkles. Make sure you do this process right after you dip strawberries in the melted chocolate.
There are many types of sprinkles available in the market. Our favorite is the heart-shaped! What’s yours?
You can even coat it with coarse sugar.
Rainbow balls and Silver balls
The cutest shiny little balls will do winders to your strawberries. The tiny silver and rainbow balls go well with the basic dark chocolate coated strawberries. This process is to be followed before the chocolate coating gets hard.
Coconut Flakes
This is well known that coconut and chocolate are a heavenly combination. Adding on coconut flakes is a great option to enhance the taste of your chocolate covered strawberries. Even this step is to be followed right after you dip strawberries in chocolate.
Finely Chopped Nuts
The chopped nut would equally taste good as coconut flakes or the chocolate covered strawberry. It is best when you want a crunch on your strawberries. Simple dip strawberries in the melted chocolate and coat completely with finely chopped nuts and let them dry.
Written Letters
The easiest way to decorate your simple chocolate-covered strawberries is to write a message or a letter on them. Use a piping bag for this and make sure you use a color scheme in contrast with the chocolate coating of the strawberry.
For example, your name is Anna, you can write each letter on a different strawberry.
Star Dust
The best decoration for valentines’ day chocolate covered strawberries. You should first let the chocolate set on the strawberries and then painted it with the stardust glitter. It the best to use golden, red, or pink glitter on the strawberries.
You can also use a theme color in case you follow up on a particular theme.
Decoration Piping gel
In case you want a bit more shiny glaze on your marbled chocolate-covered strawberries, you can dip it into the decoration piping gel to give some extra shine to the surface.
Caramel
Caramel and chocolate work like best friends. After your chocolate coating gets hard, you can dip the strawberry into caramel. The double-coated flavor would taste amazing. make sure you coat only the part of the strawberries covered with the chocolate.
Theme based decoration
If you are planning to make this recipe on Christmas eve, You can easily use green color chocolate to cover half of the strawberry or maybe make a Santa by dipping it into plain white chocolate and adding on the coconut flakes. Maybe add tiny eyes to your Santa.
You can also try a theme for Halloween parties or Easter day.
Packaging
It would be silly to not give detailing to your packaging after working so hard on bringing the best chocolate-covered strawberries into existence. You get some best Ideas on Icy Tales.
Assorted box
If you are running out of time, this packaging tops the list.
You can place the assorted chocolate covered strawberries, some dark basic coated, some white with rainbow drizzles, some sugar-coated, and so on.
You can even assort them theme-based or color-based, some white some pink, some red, some blue, or with similar color patterns with different shades of pinks and greens.
Letters Gift Box
You can use a message written with letters on the top of the chocolate-coated strawberries. A message like ” I love you” and “I miss you” are often written for their valentines’. You can also arrange the name of your loved one in your gift box.
Strawberry Tower
For this, you will need – a thermocol, some delicious chocolate covered Strawberries and some flowers, some toothpicks
For this packaging, do not remove the toothpicks from the strawberries, even after they dry.
With the help of a toothpick, insert each strawberry into the thermocol tower one by one. Also, insert flowers in some places giving it a beautiful pattern in a form of a tower.
The strawberry tower is the best packaging decoration for Christmas. You can decorate Green and golden chocolate-covered strawberries in a form of a tower giving a visual effect of a Christmas tree.
Strawberry Chocolate Bouquet
If a bouquet full of roses feels cliched, then bring her a bouquet full of chocolate-covered strawberries!
For a beautiful bouquet, you will need gift wraps, plastic wraps, some lovely pink and red sparkling chocolate-dipped strawberries, skewers, and some gift ribbons.
For this packaging, use skewers while preparing your strawberries instead of the toothpicks.
Prepare at least 20 chocolate-dipped strawberries, and divide them into four pairs.
Make 5 pairs of four strawberries each by wrapping them in plastic wrap.
Now put all the five pairs into a gift wrapper and wrap it with a ribbon.
You can even pace one or two flowers in between to make it more pretentious. And you are good to go!
More Chocolate Covered Strawberries recipes
After preparing the strawberries you can eat them as a dessert or use them to decorate and prepare in other recipes too.
Chocolate Covered Strawberries Cake
You know very well now that strawberry and chocolate are a divine combination. You can use the same flavor in your cake!
Use chocolate cream spread with strawberry chunks in between your cake bread. Whip the chocolate cream all over the cake and decorate it with the chocolate-dipped strawberries.
You can use a vanilla and white chocolate combination and top it with the white chocolate-dipped strawberries.
Chocolate Covered Strawberry Frappe
If you have gone to Starbucks you know, what it is!
A cold brew with this combination is unbeatable. You Require three things at home to prepare this drink – Strawberry Syrup, Mocha Syrup, and Vanilla ice cream.
Layer them by adding strawberry syrup at the bottom, followed up with the vanilla ice cream blended with the strawberry syrup and mocha syrup at the top.
For a complete recipe, you can look into Chocolate Covered Strawberry Frappuccino {starbuck’s copycat}.
Chocolate Covered Strawberry Popsicle
The Yummiest popsicle you will have this summer is this!
To make this recipe, all you need is to prepare a strawberry puree by blending in strawberries, sugar, a bit of lemon juice, and maybe some vanilla cream(optional).
After blending, dice some strawberries inside the puree and fill it in the popsicle moulds. Place the popsicle sticks at the center and refrigerate them for 6 to 8 hours.
Prepare a chocolate dip by melting chocolate chips and coconut oil in a double boiler or microwave.
Bring out the frozen popsicle and dip it in the chocolate dip and let it sit again for 1 hour.
Enjoy fresh summers!
Chocolate Covered Strawberries Cupcake
Another yummy dessert out of this recipe that you can prepare for your child’s birthday party and win their hearts.
A chocolate cupcake with strawberry cream whipped with a chocolate-dipped strawberry on the top is a sweet delight!
How long do the Chocolate Covered Strawberries last?
Chocolate-covered Strawberries usually last for 2 days. But since the fruit is juicy, it will start to dry up and sweat after a few hours.
Therefore, make sure you choose the right kind of strawberry beforehand. Secondly, you do not seal it in an air-tight container as it is going to trap the moisture making the dessert lose all its shine and taste.
If you are planning to gift the dessert, prepare the chocolate-covered strawberries on the same day you gift them. The gift will remain fresh.
Alternative to Strawberry
If you have already tried the above recipe and seeking some new ideas, here are some ideas that can work the best for you with the chocolate coating if not strawberries.
Chocolate covered Apple
You can try small eating apples, preferably green apples, and coat them with the same chocolate dip you use for strawberries. Decorate it according to your choice. A crunchy chocolate dipped apple is ready to serve.
This might be the best way to make your children eat fruits if they are stubborn.
Chocolate Coated Raspberries
Raspberry is another great alternative for chocolate dipped fruit.
You can check out its delicious recipe in the article chocolate-covered frozen recipe by EatingBirdFood.
Chocolate Coated Nuts
Chocolate-coated nuts, usually the almonds are the best option to be combined with the Chocolate. Generally, the dark chocolate coating should be combined with Nuts as it gives a perfect taste to snack on. But you can even try on the white coating, liked by a few.
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You can also check out How To Make A Chocolate Milkshake In 6 Different Flavors for another chocolate recipe.
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