It’s not at all difficult to make strawberries in chocolate with your own hands. Moreover, they enjoy not only tasting the dessert, but also from the magical fragrance of berries, chocolate, and spices in the cooking process.

Do-it-yourself classic strawberry in chocolate

A sweet dish is prepared using both dark and milk chocolate. Adults usually prefer dark varieties, kids prefer light creamy chocolate. Cooking time - no longer than 20 minutes.

Would need:

  • 250 - 300 grams of strawberries - peeled washed and necessarily dried on a towel, otherwise the chocolate will not stick on the berry;
  • 100 - 150 g of quality dark or milk chocolate;
  • icing sugar, vanilla, cinnamon (to taste).

How to cook:

  1. Break the tiles into pieces and melt the chocolate, adding sugar and spices (optional).

Method 1. In a ladle in a water bath at an approximate temperature of 40 - 55 ° C. Do not allow too much heating, or the treat starts to burn. Never use aluminum cookware - the mass will turn gray. Make sure that boiling water does not reach the bottom of the tank.

Method 2. On an open fire. Put the pieces of chocolate in a container with a thick bottom and keep the dishes on a very low fire, constantly stirring the mass to avoid graininess (even after removing the dishes from the stove). To make the dessert sweeter, you can add powdered sugar to taste. This supplement is especially relevant if strawberries are sour or dark chocolate is used.
Method 3. You can use a conventional microwave, turning it on to the maximum. After 60 seconds, open the “stove”, mix the mass and turn it on again for 30 seconds. Repeat until the chocolate mass has acquired the desired viscosity.
Features of melting chocolate:

  • Chocolate does not withstand high temperatures, and sweet dairy varieties melt at a lower temperature. Chocolate with a high cocoa content will require a higher heating temperature.
  • Water should not be added to the hot product - it will make the mixture too watery. It is better to pour warm fat milk, cream or softened (but not melted) butter over a teaspoon. All products must be warm, otherwise the mass will coagulate, and grains will form in it.
  • Dishes with a melting mass should not be covered, or the water settling under the lid will begin to drip down.

2. Dip the berries in a slightly cooled and thick chocolate sauce, planting them on wooden skewers. Then carefully lay on parchment paper or a frequent grate. For chocolate to flow evenly, it is better to place the sticks with berries vertically in the holes of an inverted colander, in a glass or sticking them in a piece of foam.

3. Chill the dessert in the refrigerator so that the chocolate thickens even more and “grabs”.

4. An hour before serving, remove the berries from the refrigerator, otherwise they will not be so tasty. You can serve dessert directly with skewers so that it is convenient to take berries from a plate. Or put each strawberry in chocolate in a paper basket.

Master class with coconut

Strawberries in chocolate with coconut turn out to be especially tasty if the dessert is prepared not just with melted chocolate, but with chocolate cream ganache. In this case, almost berry sweets with a thick tasty coating are obtained.

 

The most convenient and reliable method of making light ganache is to stoke chocolate with cream in a water bath.

Main Products:

  • strawberries (clean and dry) - 2 cups;
  • coconut flakes - 50 - 100 grams;
  • chocolate white, milk or dark (but not bitter) - 100 - 150 g.
  • cream 30% - 100 g (for dark grades of chocolate), 200 - 250 g - for milk, 300 - 350 g for white;
  • sugar (better - icing sugar) - to taste.

Cooking:

  1. Put a pot of water on the fire. Correctly choose the size of the dishes - a bowl or a ladle of food should hold firmly on the edges of the pan.
  2. Break the chocolate in a bowl and pour it with non-cold cream.
  3. After boiling water in a pan, reduce the heat and put a bowl of food on top.
  4. Constantly mix chocolate with cream, achieving a uniform, dense, shiny mass without lumps. Add sugar if necessary.
  5. After removing the bowl from the pan, cover it with cling film so that foam does not form on top (like on jelly) and cool slightly.
  6. With the help of wooden sticks or toothpicks, dip the berries in ganache, and then in coconut flakes and set vertically or tilted for final hardening. Cool.

Tip: You can pierce the berry at the base with a skewer and dip it completely in the chocolate mixture, you can only tip it. Sometimes, strawberries are carefully pierced from the top, and immersed in ganache only to half. Then the red strawberry will “peek” out of the chocolate base.

How to make white chocolate

Strawberries in white chocolate are no less tasty and healthy delicacy that looks very airy. Due to the lack of cocoa, it is best suited for children, especially if they ask for sweets before bedtime.

Ingredients:

  • strawberry berries - 200 - 250 g;
  • white chocolate - 100 - 150 g;
  • vanilla, orange zest (to taste).

Recipe:

  1. Peel, rinse and dry the berries.
  2. Dissolve pieces of white chocolate in a water bath over low heat. Fatty (not cold) cream (25 - 33%) can be added to the cooking process in the proportion: 1 part chocolate to 2 parts cream (in grams).
  3. Immerse the berries after berries in a warm chocolate mass. If you want an exquisite bitterness - sprinkle with orange zest, then put to cool.

With raw mascarpone

Mascarpone cheese will give strawberries with chocolate a special, melting in the language of "creaminess".

To make chocolate covered strawberries with mascarpone, you will need:

  • strawberries - 300 - 400 g;
  • mascarpone cheese - 150 - 200 g;
  • dark chocolate - 2 tiles;
  • fat cream - 100 - 150 ml;
  • friable cookies (like Yubileiny) - 1 pack;
  • spices and powdered sugar to taste;
  • butter - 50 g.

How to make a dessert:

  1. Melt the chocolate with spices and put under the cling film to cool on the table.
  2. Crush cookies or crush it into powder.
  3. Mix softened butter with cookie crumbs. For adults, you can add a few teaspoons of liquor, rum or brandy to the mixture.
  4. Place the cookie mixture on the bottom of a wide glass or bowl without leveling it.
  5. Dip half the strawberries in warm chocolate and put on a skewer.
  6. Beat the other half of the berries with a mascarpone and cream blender, adding icing sugar if necessary. You can knead the berries with a fork and mix with cheese and cream until a cream is thick enough (like fat sour cream).
  7. On the cookies in each bowl put the mascarpone mixed with strawberries and chocolate berries on top of it. Chill the dish in the refrigerator.

You can prepare a dessert with mascarpone, cutting the middle of the berries and stuffing them with cheese, whipped with the removed part of the strawberries. Then dip the stuffed berries in hot chocolate and then cool.

Step by step cooking with liquor

Tasty recipe: how to make strawberry liquor at home

Strawberries with chocolate and liquor - a magical treat for adults, which is simply impossible to refuse.

Main Products:

  • large berries (washed, peeled and dried) - 300 g;
  • creamy liquor, strawberry, chocolate - 50 - 100 ml;
  • white or dark chocolate - 100 - 150 g;
  • sugar (or icing sugar), if dark chocolate is used - to taste;
  • spices and spices.

How to cook:

  1. Melt the chocolate over low heat, in a steam bath, or in the microwave. Add to it optionally icing sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, red pepper (on the tip of a knife).
  2. Cool a little so that the mass becomes warm, and not scorching.
  3. Pour liquor into a chocolate mixture per teaspoon (no more than 2 - 3 tablespoons), making sure that the mixture does not become too liquid. Alcohol should not be cold.
  4. Fill the pharmacy syringe with liquor and carefully inject alcohol into each berry with a thin needle, piercing it.
  5. Dip strawberries with liquor in melted chocolate with a wooden skewer, put in the cold so that the layer of chocolate thickens.

Bouquet of strawberries in chocolate

To make a luxurious fragrant bouquet of strawberries in chocolate with your own hands, you will need:

  • large berries - 300 - 400 grams;
  • 100 grams of black and white chocolate;
  • optional: liquor, ground nuts, orange zest, coconut and
  • favorite spices;
  • powdered sugar and food coloring - for decoration.

Making a bouquet:

  1. Those who own the skill of carving, or simply want to give originality to the creation, can cut out the petals on a strawberry with a sharp knife in the form of a rose bud. But even from whole berries without notches the bouquet will turn out wonderful. For an adult, you can introduce a little liquor, cognac or rum into the berries.
  2. Prepare melted chocolate - a bowl of white and a bowl of black.
  3. Paste each berry onto a skewer and carefully immerse it in full or in part in a warm chocolate mass.
  4. Place skewers with berries in a glass or inverted colander, sprinkle with nuts, coconut flakes, poppy seeds, zest and cool if desired.
  5. A bouquet will be especially beautiful if, after hardening a layer of chocolate on a strawberry, decorate the berries using a different-colored melted chocolate, picking it up in a cooking bag and pouring it in a thin stream.

You can make “striped” berries - immediately with white and milk chocolate. And white and black roses with the center of red strawberries, painted with a winding line of pink glaze, look just fine.

How long is the finished dessert stored

How long is chocolate covered strawberries when kept in the cold? Unfortunately, not for long. Chocolate-coated berries are stored in the refrigerator for no longer than 2 days. A longer period will affect the quality of the berries. They can become watery or just go bad.

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