How to Decorate Chocolate Strawberries
Everyone love strawberries, but once its fruity flavor is combined with chocolate’s sweet taste, you’ll have everyone craving more. It’s not unusual today to see strawberries being covered with creamy chocolate. These are popularly served as desserts for special occasions, used for decoration, or just to liven up a delicious dinner. Of course, part of the fun in making them is decorating them. Here are a few tips on how to decorate chocolate strawberries.
What You’ll Need
Strawberries
Melted dark and/or white chocolate
Ice cube tray
Candies
Food coloring
Clean paintbrushes
Prepare Your Surface
Get the ice cube tray. This will be your container, the one you’ll use to hold your dipped strawberries, as you’re adding in the decorations.
Dip the strawberry in the melted chocolate, holding it by the small leaves. When it’s covered, shake off the extra chocolate, and put the strawberry down on the tray, the strawberry leaves underneath. The tray keeps the sides of the fruit smooth, and lets you have a stable surface, which will come in handy as you decorate.
Cute Choco-Tuxedo Strawberries
Instead of just “dipping” your strawberries, why don’t you try “dressing” them up, too? You can do this by making tuxedo designs on the berries. First, dip the strawberry in white chocolate. Allow it to dry, then dip its side in some dark chocolate. Afterwards, dip again to make a white chocolate “V” shaped on one side of the berry, as if it’s a tuxedo. To add the finishing touches, draw buttons and a bow tie on white “V”, with the dark chocolate.
Create Some Swirls
One fun, but simple way to create lovely designs on your chocolate strawberries is by dipping them in dark and white chocolate, alternately. First, dip the strawberries in your chosen base, either dark or white chocolate. Once the chocolate base is dried completely, re-dip the tip in the other chocolate. To create the swirls, get a paintbrush and gently brush the second layer all over the first.
Use Other Candies
Chocolate isn’t the only treat you can use to enhance your strawberry’s taste. You can also use other candies, to create something exciting and adorable. First, get various kinds of candies, like sprinkles, gummy bears, heart candies, jelly beans, and even small peppermints. Dip the strawberries in the melted choco, and while it hasn’t dried yet, press various kinds of candy in the wet chocolate.
The Food Coloring Tactic
Chocolate usually comes in white, and dark or light brown, which can limit your decorating prowess. The good thing is you can improve this, and transform chocolate as if it’s paint. All you need is several different kinds of food coloring. Mix some food coloring into white chocolate, and using your painbrushes, draw various designs on the strawberries. You can customize the decorations and drawings you like. Let dry, and you’ll have something unique and colorful to share.
More Tips For Perfect Choco-Berry Creations
Dry your strawberries properly. They must be completely dry when you put them in the chocolate, otherwise the dip won’t stick properly.
Ready all your materials before you even start dipping the strawberries.
Always use perfect and ripe red strawberries.
A heatproof bowl works great when melting the chocolate.
Avoid overheating the chocolate and make sure it doesn’t touch the water or steam.
Put the finished, dipped chocolates in cool, room temperature when you’re done.
Eat the strawberries the same day you dipped them.
Nothing is more delectable than chocolate-covered strawberries, but decorating them makes them more enticing. Try these decorating tactics, and chances are everyone will find them too adorable to eat!