Kneadles : Chocolate Dipped Strawberries

Everyone loves chocolate dipped strawberries! This is a little tutorial on how to do it right.

What you will need:

Got everything? Good! Lets get started!

Step 1:

Rinse strawberries and let them drip dry. Do NOT remove the leaves!

Step 2:

Prepare a place for you strawberries to land after

you dip them using parchment paper.

Step 3:

Wipe off any remaining water from your strawberries BEFORE YOU DIP THEM.

**This step is extremely important, if you don't make sure they are

completely dry, the chocolate will not stick well to the strawberry.

Step 4:

Create a double boiler by boiling water in one bowl, and placing another bowl on top of it.

Fill the second bowl with chocolate chunks. Make sure to use enough to coat all of your berries.

**If you didn't melt enough chocolate, fear not, you can melt more chunks!

Step 5:

Use a wooden spoon to gently push the chocolate chunks around and help them melt.

You must mix them constantly or else it will burn.

Step 6:

Mix your chocolate until it is silky smooth.

Step 7:

Now time to dip the strawberries! Hold the strawberries by the leaves,

and dip the strawberries into the chocolate at an angle.

Then rotate the strawberries around until you have an even coat.

Step 8:

Be generous with the chocolate, you want a healthy layer of

chocolate to balance out the flavor of the strawberry.

Step 9:

Place the dipped strawberry on parchment paper to cool.

Step 10:

When your strawberries are cooled, put them in the refrigerator to harden

and create a nice shell.

Viola!

Amazing, delicious chocolate dipped strawberries!

Serve alone or on top of a cake (that's what I did) or something creative!

**Extra chocolate? Have no fear! Feel free to dip other foods into the chocolate, like bananas! Just go nuts. (Heh, that was a pun.)

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