Homemade Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Homemade chocolate covered strawberries are super easy to make, way cheaper than purchasing at the store, and make the perfect treat for Valentine's Day!

Chocolate covered strawberries are the highlight treat during the month of February. While purchasing them and having them delivered to your home is easy and convenient, I much prefer making homemade chocolate covered strawberries. When you make them on your own you can control the cost, you know how fresh the strawberries were before you dipped them, and you get to customize them to your own preferences. 

Homemade Chocolate Covered Strawberries:

Making homemade chocolate covered strawberries is super easy! All you need to do is microwave your chocolate in 30 second increments, stirring in between. Then you simply dip your strawberries, shake off the excess chocolate, and then let them harden on some wax paper. From there you can decorate with different drizzles, sprinkles, cookie crumbs, nuts, etc... 

How to Store Chocolate Covered Strawberries:

Chocolate covered strawberries are best stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator. This will help preserve the strawberries the longest and prevent them from getting mushy before you get around to finishing them all. 

Cheap Chocolate Covered Strawberries Under $20:

I was able to get everything I need to make these strawberries for under $20 and one trip to the grocery store. After purchasing everything I needed, my total cam to exactly $19 before tax, and I'm able to make way more strawberries than I would get if I paid someone else $20 to make them. 

• Strawberries- $3.99
• Almond Bark- $1.99
• Valentine Sprinkles- $4.99
• Pink Cookie Icing- $3.99
• White Cookie Icing- $3.99

How Long Do Chocolate Covered Strawberries Last:

Chocolate covered strawberries will last in an airtight container in the fridge for 2-3 days. They're best definitely best within the first two days, but day three definitely won't kill you. You just want to make sure they're gone before the fruit gets mushy and bad on the inside. 

Best Chocolate for Chocolate Covered Strawberries:

You could use a super expensive, high quality dark chocolate if you really wanted to. I on the other hand refer to use almond bark almost exclusively when I'm making anything that involves melting and dipping chocolate. Almond Bark is available in the baking isle of most grocery stores, is very inexpensive for over a pound of chocolate, and oddly enough, contains zero almonds. 

Almond Bark is made of Sugar, Oil, Cocoa, Soy Lecithin, Artificial Flavor, and Milk. Is it the highest quality chocolate? No. Will it give you cancer? Maybe (joking kind of). Is it cheap, melts well, tastes great, and works for any an all dipping chocolate situations, 100% yes. 

How To Decorate Chocolate Covered Strawberries:

Step One: Melt your chocolate in the microwave in 30 second increments stirring in between each session. 

Step Two: Dip your strawberries into the chocolate getting as close to the stem as possible, without actually getting the stem/leaves into the chocolate.

Step Three: Lay the chocolate covered strawberries onto some wax paper and allow the chocolate to harden. 

Step Four: Taking your Wilton Cookie Icing, make a back and forth drizzle design on each of the berries. For these, I did a drizzle with both the white and the pink icings. 

Step Five: Add a few sprinkles to the strawberries if desired. 

Step Six: Place the berries on a plate in the fridge to harden completely, about 1 hour. 

Yield: 12

Author: Paige Flamm

Homemade Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Homemade chocolate covered strawberries are super easy to make, way cheaper than purchasing at the store, and make the perfect treat for Valentine's Day!

Prep time: 15 MinInactive time: 1 HourTotal time: 1 H & 15 M

Ingredients

• Strawberries
• Almond Bark
• Sprinkles
• Cookie Icing

Instructions

1. Melt your chocolate in the microwave in 30 second increments stirring in between each session.
2. Dip your strawberries into the chocolate getting as close to the stem as possible, without actually getting the stem/leaves into the chocolate.
3. Lay the chocolate covered strawberries onto some wax paper and allow the chocolate to harden.
4. Taking your Wilton Cookie Icing, make a back and forth drizzle design on each of the berries. For these, I did a drizzle with both the white and the pink icings.
5. Add a few sprinkles to the strawberries if desired.
6. Place the berries on a plate in the fridge to harden completely, about 1 hour.

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