Hi! I am Rob Kingsbury, with the ACKC Cocoa Bar, and today we're showing you how to dip and decorate delicious strawberries. So for the finale we're actually going to be doing the dipping and the decorating. So start right off. I'm just going to grab some strawberries dipping with different types of dark chocolates, show some of the different ingredients, so you can have fun with us, as far as sprucing up your berries and giving them that wild effect. Then I'll finish off by doing some formal berries, the tuxedo berry, and the wedding gown strawberry.
So easy enough, grab the berry, you want to make sure that you pull back all the leaves. You're going to hold the berry by the stem with the leaves when you dip it into the dark chocolate, the milk chocolate, the white chocolate. So I'm just going to start off by doing a white chocolate dip. Real easy, throw the berry in. Allow some of the chocolate to fall back off, and say, you are not bringing drips all over counter work, hold it up side down, that way the chocolate is going to pull back down a little bit, just because of the nature of gravity. Then you can put it down on your wax paper.
After we do a little dipping here, I'll put these in the refrigerator just for a couple of minutes, just so the chocolate can set up and snap into place, and be nice and firm. So anyways, we will do one white chocolate, I'm going to do one milk chocolate, one dark chocolate, just to get your taste buds watering. The we will do a little more decorative work. So again, dip it in, let the gravity work for you and then place the berry.
The other thing with decorating with the strawberries, is that it's nice to show a little bit of the actual red strawberries, so just just dipping and allowing the chocolate to come up about 3 quarters of the way, gives it a nice look of chocolate, the berry and the green stem too.
So then as far as what you could do with the dipped strawberry at this point, is really open to what you want to use, what ingredients that you personally like. So, let's go with a little white chocolate, I've got some beautiful fresh shredded coconut, as I thought it will look really pretty on these, so come right in, give it a twirl, load it up there, and you have a great looking strawberry covered in coconut, and let's do another berry. This time let's do a milk chocolate. I think it would taste great with a chopped nuts and some toffee bits blended together. All of which are real easy to make.
You can buy the toffee bits at the grocery store and the nuts as well, throw them in your Cuisinart, just put through a couple of times so they grind up a little smaller than what you are going to purchase out of the package. Do another milk chocolate, this time let's just roll it in some dark chocolate jimmies. Here we go, that looks great. I'll say, I have some chopped up Oreos which are really really easy, just take the Oreo, so you buy right over the counter at the grocery store, put them in your Cuisinart, folds it up, grind them until they are nice and fine, and viola! We have Oreo crumbs. Center it all, don't worry about the cream filling. It actually blends right up just like this, cool.
Man, that one looks awesome. It's kind of a dirty strawberry look there, but it looks yummy. So, then I have just some fun M&Ms here, which I think are cool to work with. And you know, the kids love this kind of stuff. So this is great with kids as well. They can have a lot of fun. Be really creative, design their own berry and you can do the whole field trip, take them to the store, let them pick out some decorations, cool. Now, who wouldn't want that, cool. We will just do one more here with the little chips. I'll do it in dark chocolate, give it a good roll, viola!
Then I also have just some sugar sprinkles, which will look particularly pretty on opposite color of chocolate. Since I have some red here, and some white, I'll do a white chocolate, just give it a little sprinkle with the red crystals. So this is really pretty, and in fact, I mean you can use whatever color. If you want to do a little decoration for the holidays, doing a little red and green sprinkle in there, would look great. Then I'll do a dark chocolate, and do just a little bit of a white crystal. These are little bit larger than just pure sugar, so they have really pretty effect when you put the crystal on there.
Alright. So coming up on our next segment. We are going to do the formal tuxedo berry and the matching wedding gown. I'm just going to clean up a little bit, and I'll be right back with you.
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