Roll Your Own - Chocolate Dipped Strawberries Personalized
Prices for purchased dipped strawberries can be really exorbitant. Check out some online retailers or go to your local specialty shop and you’ll see a range of prices. A lot of places sell 6 berries for 30 bucks and some sell a dozen for up to $45. If you’re shipping on top of that, wow that’s some cash for some nice, but ultimately really easy to do chocolate covered strawberries.
What is stopping you from doing it yourself and “rolling your own” so to speak? It’s easy to do. Grab a pan, grab some strawberries and chocolate, get a cookie sheet with some parchment paper and you are good to go.
This whole process starts with the best fruit. So try and go for the best-looking, plumpest, most healthy looking strawberries. Go organic if the price is right, because the flavor and sweetness is certainly more intense and juicy from my experience. If they are in season, which is spring and summer in your area, then they are going to be better. Otherwise, you’ll be purchasing berries likely imported from far away and then the price is going to be really high.
While on the subject of having the best quality ingredients, if you’re the kind of person who likes the flavor of chocolate along with a coffee or espresso flavor, be sure to go for an organic coffee choice as well. There’s no sense in ruining your great chocolate choices and berry choices with an inferior coffee product.
For your chocolate pick, you can certainly go with semi-sweet, dark, milk or white. Stores sell large bags of chocolate chips which you can simply melt on low heat in a pan, or take a baker’s block of chocolate, cut it up into smaller pieces and put it in the pot that way. Whatever you decide sounds best to you, go for it, this is your creation here.
Don’t forgot to wash and dry your berries. At this point, take a strawberry by the stem, or if you have some tongs or fondue forks, you could alternatively prick them on top, and dip in the melted chocolate pot. I like to go close to the top but still leaving a bit of berry showing. Place your finished chocolate covered strawberries in a row on your lined cookie sheet.
After you’ve made your assembly line and admired your handiwork, it’s just a matter of letting them dry. Before they completely dry, you can also get even crazier and add some more toppings to them. Crushed nuts, little candy sprinkles, more chocolate bits, sugar, whatever appeals to you. Congrats – you are now on your way to being a veteran in the chocolate covered strawberries world. You’ll be subject to rave reviews and happiness from those who enjoy your new culinary creation.
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