Hi! I am Rob Kingsbury, ACKC Cocoa Bar, and today I'm showing you how to dip and decorate beautiful strawberries. Right now I'm going to go and do a little high-end couture strawberries. We are doing some Tuxedo and wedding gown designs. To start it off, make sure you pick a really nice large size strawberries. In fact, I don't have any right here, but large stemmed strawberries when they are in season are awesome to work with. But these are pretty nice sized strawberries anyway. So to start off with the Tuxedo berry, we first need to get it coated with little white chocolate, let it set up, and then we are going to come back and do a little best design on it.
So all we need to do with a Tuxedo berry, is dip one side of it, put that aside, and let that set up for a second. So, while that's setting up, I'm going to come through and we're going to get the wedding gown berry set up. So, with this you want to make sure you cover it completely. With this you also want to cover as much of the berry as you can. So unlike the other berries that we're decorating, this one giving you a wall of chocolate covering, which is going to help give it the style of a natural wedding dress.
Alright, so I just went and pulled the two strawberries that I dipped in white chocolate out of fridge, just let them set up for about two minutes, bring them back out, so the chocolates are nice and firm to work with. So what we're going to do for the Tuxedo strawberry, is we're going to dip it in dark chocolate, giving a V-shape. So again, you're just going to be working really with the front side of this, but you need to make sure when you come in, it's almost like you're kind of shaping it so it looks like a little heart on the top of the berry.
Again, make sure you get as much of the extra chocolate off, and then put it back down to set up. So it looks really nice. It has a nice V, it's looking like a formal dinner jacket. Then we are going to come back in and we're going to decorate it. So I'm going to come in, and just put a couple of little dark chocolate buttons on. This is where I'm using -- you could use is a little toothpick, or I am just using a little skewer, anything just to make some little darks on here. Beautiful! So we've given a really beautiful formal look. We're getting the idea that this a tuxedo, then just to finish it out, I'm just going to give it a little bit of a bow tie. That's one side, and the other side. Here we go.
Alright, so we finished off with the tuxedo, and next I am just going to come in and do the wedding dress. This is where we're going to able to use our paper cone, and put it to good use. So, just getting your paper cone prepped. You don't need a lot of chocolate for this. So you don't have to load up this cone actually with chocolate, just a few spoonfuls, is all what we really need. Because a little of bit of chocolate extra goes a long way. So, I have only put in a little chocolate, not even to fill the cone halfway up. I am going to take this, and I'm going to fold this to you, just so like you would with a tube of toothpaste, curl it down, and we put a little pressure on the tip, and this has little bit of chocolate coming out. I'm going to snip it with the scissors, open it up a little a bit, and then we are going to do little bit of drizzle on here.
We're just going to do a little quick design of some white zig-zag just along the bottom of it, in a way to come back on the other way, give it a bit of a formal look. Then you can come back in, and just put some little white dots of chocolate, give the look of a neckline. I've already done another strawberry, and instead of using little dots of white chocolate, I went through and used silver dragees. So if you have a real steady hand, and you want to do the dragees, feel free. It will take a little bit more time. Cool!
Anyways, that's it for the decoration part. I'm going to put these in the fridge, let them set up, and when we pull it off, only the chocolate that was actually put on the berry will remain, the other chocolate drizzle is going stay on to the wax paper sheet.
Our wedding strawberries have set up and chill, they look beautiful. And I hope you've enjoyed and how to dip and decorate strawberries. The best part though is the eating, so let's finish that on a good note for myself and for you, and I'm going to enjoy a beautiful strawberry. Thanks so much.
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