How to Make Chocolate Dipped Strawberries

How to Make Chocolate Dipped Strawberries - as part of the expert series by GeoBeats. Hi, I am going to show you how to do a quick and simple dessert: chocolate dipped strawberries - everybody loves them. You just take broken chocolate from a block. I buy a block and I just break it up, and put it in a double boiler and let it melt. So while my chocolate is melting, I take a wet paper towel - you do not want to wash your strawberries because the chocolate would not adhere - but I get a damp towel and just give them a little wipe to get rid of any of the dirt on them, and the little pieces. So I am going to take this pan and I am going to put the Silpat in here. It is nonstick, so when we put the strawberries on it and they sit, they will come right off without sticking to it. So I take a stawberry, I bring the little ends, and then I just roll the strawberry around in the chocolate. I pull it up, give it a little tap to get the excess off there, roll it this way and lay it on the Silpat. Okay this is one I am going to put a little topping on. Like I say you could do crushed peanuts on here, you could do cookies, you could do sprinkles. I am going to put a little coconut on this one. I take coconut, I am just going to sprinkle it on there, roll it around, sprinkle on the other side. It just gives it a little something different. People love those too. You pop these in the refrigerator. You will see that the chocolate, 15-20 minutes you will see the chocolate start to get a dull look. That means that the chocolate has set on the strawberries. So here we have our strawberries, they are set now, they are ready to be served. As I said on the Silpat they come right off. And there you have a very simple dessert: chocolate dipped strawberries - everybody loves them.