Chocolate Covered Strawberries







I wanted to make something special for my kids' teachers. I know that several of them like chocolate covered strawberries, so decided to make this as an end-of-year gift. Pretty simple to make and fun to make with the kids too! You can probably you use any chocolate that you want. I used 60% since I wanted to use something with less milk so my 2nd daughter could do this with me!

One box of Godiva chocolate covered strawberries- is $80! So you are definitely saving a lot of money by going and getting a box of strawberries from Costco ($6!) and bag of chocolate! Plus, I was able to make about 36 strawberries. That would have cost $240! ok. granted these prob don't taste like Godiva. But still pretty good! My husband jokes that they are "Jess-I-va"

Tip- read somewhere when microwaving chocolate- make sure your bowl has no water. Looked at the all-recipes recipe as a guideline, but didn't use toothpicks. Just hold the strawberries by green stem and dip. Also, didn't use as much chocolate. Even with 10 oz- still had some left-over chocolate that ended up using to dip some rosemary butter cookies.

Here's what I did:
1) Prepare 2 trays with wax paper on top
2) Rinse large box of Costco strawberries (think it's about 2 pounds)
3) Chocolate- used Ghiradelli 60% cocoa chocolate morsels. Microwaved 10 oz bag with 1.5 tablespoons of shortening for 1 min in microwave -safe bowl. Stir. Then microwave again for additional 15 sec. Stir again. Chocolate should be liquid then and good for dipping!
4) Dip strawberries and chocolate and rest them on wax paper
5) Can also decorate with white chocolate. Microwaved 3 oz white chocolate with 1/2 tablespoon of shortening 1 min, then 10 sec. Stir vigorously. Then pour into piping bag and pipe white chocolate strips onto strawberries.
6) Let chocolate cool completely before transferring strawberries.

Chocolate Covered Strawberries (~adapted from allrecipes.com)

Ingredients

  • 16 ounces milk chocolate chips
  • 2 tablespoons shortening

Directions

  1. In a double boiler, melt the chocolate and shortening, stirring occasionally until smooth. Holding them by the toothpicks, dip the strawberries into the chocolate mixture.
  2. Insert toothpicks into the tops of the strawberries.
  3. Turn the strawberries upside down and insert the toothpick into styrofoam for the chocolate to cool.

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