Chocolate covered strawberries are a great way to say thank you or I love you to a special someone. If you don't have time to make a batch of truffles, try making some chocolate covered strawberries. It's easy! This is what you need:
about 8 oz. of melting chocolate (I suggest Bakers semi sweet chocolate baking bars), a box of large strawberries cleaned and patted dry (pull out any soft strawberries and use for another dish), a cookie sheet lined with wax paper, and an microwave safe medium bowl.
Break up the chocolate and put it into a clean microwave safe bowl. Put it into the microwave on power 8 for 1 minute. Stir. Repeat for 30 second intervals at power 5 until the chocolate is fully melted.
Take the strawberries and holding them delicately at the top (not by the greens) dip them into the chocolate about 3/4 of the way in. The idea is to leave some of the red from the strawberry show. Let the extra chocolate drip back into the bowl and place very delicately onto the wax paper lined cookie sheet. Continue until all of the strawberries are dipped!
If you have left over chocolate, find some yummies from your pantry that you might like to dip into the chocolate. Here are some examples: graham crackers or your favorite cookies, pretzels, potato chips, marshmallows, dried apricots. The list can go on and on so be creative and have fun!!
And of course, let me know if you have any questions.
Yours in chocolate!
Emily Marcovitz
The Truffle Lady
