Showing posts with label chocolate-covered strawberries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chocolate-covered strawberries. Show all posts

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Strawberries


"Blocks of ice cream in every flavor you could think of, apple pies, treacle tarts, chocolate eclairs and jam doughnuts, trifle, strawberries, Jell-O, rice pudding..." (Sorcerer's Stone, 125).




I think it's fabulous that strawberries are included in the list of desserts at the first Hogwarts Feast. I could tell you to just throw some strawberries in a bowl and eat them. But that's no fun. So today we will make "Tuxedoed Strawberries!" I found the recipe on the website for Taste of Home.

You Will Need:
Strawberries
White Chocolate for melting
Milk or Dark Chocolate for melting


1. Wash and dry your strawberries. In a small microwave-safe bowl, melt about half your white chocolate (assuming you're using a bag of Wilton's candy melts) and stir until smooth.
2. Dip each strawberry into the white chocolate, coating it completely, but leaving a little red visible below the stem. Place the coated strawberries on a sheet of parchment or wax paper to set.


3. Melt the milk (or dark) chocolate in a small microwave-safe bowl. Dip each white strawberry into the melted milk chocolate on a angle, first one way, then the other, leaving an inverted triangle on the front of each strawberry.


4. Spoon the extra milk (or dark) chocolate into a sandwich bag or pastry bag, and cut a tiny bit off the tip. Use the pastry bag to pipe tiny "buttons" onto the "shirt" of each strawberry, followed by a little bowtie. If you still have extra chocolate (like I did), you can also pipe lapels onto the "jacket," cleaning up any smudges.


How cute are these?! And they are SO delicious! I want to make them for every party ever! They will be sure to impress your friends.

I mean, come on! It's like a little choir of strawberries!