With strawberry season comes a demand for MANY different recipes featuring strawberries. So throughout the season we are going to be posting a couple popular recipes featuring our delicious strawberries.
Todays recipe, really needs no recipe at all, but is a class favorite! Chocolate Covered Strawberries. The fun thing about Chocolate Covered Strawberries is that you can make it your own and can create them however you see fit.
To put it simply, you start with a bowl of beautiful, Sunny Hill Strawberries. Its easiest if you keep the stems on the strawberries, but either way will work. Wash them and make sure they're clean and ready to eat. Then you start on the chocolate.
Now the easiest way we have found for this recipe is to use chocolate chips. So start with whatever flavor you like. We are huge fans of dark chocolate, so we usually buy the dark chocolate chips. But you can always get the original milk chocolate chips or white chocolate chips, if thats what you prefer.
To melt the chocolate, you simply put the chips in a microwave safe container and toss it in the microwave for a minute and then stir. Then heat it up for another minute. A different method that we've used in the past, is to boil water in a large sauce pan and put the chocolate in a smaller sauce pan. Then place it inside the larger sauce pan, and continue to stir till it is fully melted. But the microwave is faster, easier, and is less messy.
After your chocolate is melted, you take your strawberries and dip them in the chocolate. Then place your freshly dipped berry on a cookie sheet with wax paper. If you would like to add more toppings to the strawberries (for example: crushed nuts, sprinkles, coconut, etc.), have them ready on a separate plate and dip the berries before setting them down. Another fun option is to use the white chocolate and the regular chocolate to create designs on your strawberries. Its best if you use a spoon or fork to drizzle the design onto the strawberry.
When finished put the strawberries in the fridge to chill or till chocolate hardens. Then take out and serve.
So there you have it. A fun, easy, delicious way to eat your fresh strawberries.
Till next time!!
~Sunny Hill Farm
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