Happy Valentine Day!! Valentines, a festival that originated in France and is now celebrated worldwide. This festival of romance, love and bringing of joy is best celebrated with the classy chocolate dipped strawberries. This dessert has been made famous, especially by Godiva, whose shops have serpentine queues on Valentine Day, for freshly dipped strawberry dipped in chocolate. There is something romantic about standing on a cold weather day at the flagship store of Godiva in New York city and getting this delicious dessert for your Valentine!! Definitely will melt many a hearts, for sure!! Godiva Dark Chocolates are a favorite of mine, and I remain loyal to this brand! I discovered the joy of eating chocolates, after I tasted these exquisite chocolates. So trying to recreate the flavour at home with the Godiva Chocolates was a highly irresistible idea for me. These chocolate dipped strawberries look and taste extremely delicious and are also very easy and quick to make, an under half hour activity. And the extra benefit is saving on the time of standing in the queues for buying them on Valentines. Not to mention, it is at much cheaper cost too. Enjoy this gourmet dessert at home, using any kind of chocolates, and leave your Valentine impressed with this “Made at home, specially for you” and melt the heart with the all time favourite dessert of Chocolate Dipped Strawberry.
Recipe Makes 24-28 Strawberries
Ingredients [shopeat_button]
- 1 large box of Fresh Strawberries
- 2 bars of Godiva Dark Chocolates ( 8 oz each) or any other flavour
- 1/5 bar of of Godiva White Chocolate(optional)
- 30 Toothpicks
- Styrofoam /Thermocol Sheet, (3 inch thick of 12 inches * 15 inches)
- Double boiler for melting chocolate (optional)
Method
- Thorughly wash the strawberries.
- Often the strawberries come in varying sizes, so pick 24 strawberries of even height. Leave the leafs on. Some people remove the green, I like the green coz it makes it look fresher. Ghirardelli strawberries, have strawberries without leaf.
- If you have a double boiler, put about 2 cups of water to boil in the bottom part.
- If you do not have a double boiler, put 2 cups of water in a pan to boil.
- Melt half the chocolate in a deep but small bowl for 2 minutes.
- Slowly add remaining chocolate and stir so all the chocolate melts,
- If needed warm the chocolates mixture for another 30 – 45 second and mix thoroughly.
- Put a lid on the pan, and reduce the flame to minimum.
- Put the melted chocolate on top of the lid, or in the top part of double boiler to keep it warm.
- Insert toothpicks into the strawberry, half way through, from the leaf side.
- Using the tip portion of toothpick swirl the strawberry into the melted chocolates, 3-4 times.
- Lift off the strawberry and let the drip stop. Once it stops, swirl the other way, for the drip to even out. If you do not change the direction, chances are you may end up with a pointed tip at the top.
- Once evened out, insert into the styrofoam/thermocol sheet.
- Repeat for all strawberries, and refrigerate for 2 hours.
- If you like extreme thick coating of chocolate, then refrigerate for half an hour, and again coat another layer and freeze.
- Melt the white chocolate for 45 seconds, and using a piping bag, make lines on the dark chocolates, or completely cover the strawberries and chill for 3=4 hours before serving.
- Serve cold.
Tips
- Buying organic strawberries will likely increase the sweetness of the dessert.
- Skewers can be used too, for swirling.
- No lumps should exist in order to have a good finish.
Instinct
- Layer it with differ colored chocolates, to create design
- If edges get messed up, just swirl it again, easy!
Feel Factor What a wonderful dessert, that implies “I love”, is healthy, bitter sweet, and encompasses all shades of Romance! Godiva Dark Chocolate Dipped Strawberry signifies Valentine at its best for many including me! 
