Fruit coated with dark crunchy chocolate

Name: Fruit coated with dark crunchy chocolate
Total time: 900 s
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 10 strawberries; 1/2 pineapple; 1 excellent quality dark chocolate (70%) bar

Becky @beckyr

Alicante, Spain

We were invited to a "let's cook together" evening meal yesterday. There were four of us and we all agreed to cook one thing - I volunteered dessert, searched "strawberries and chocolate" in Spanish Cookpad and liked these chocolate coated strawberries. As I had half a pineapple in the fridge I decided to do a combo - they were absolutely delicious and next time I make them (probably next weekend so my sons can try them) I will serve with vanilla ice cream and cold cava. Here's the recipe :-)

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Ingredients

15 mins

4 servings

10strawberries
1/2pineapple
1excellent quality dark chocolate (70%) bar

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Steps

15 mins

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Wash and cut the fruit. Don't cut the strawberry leaves off like I did - much better to leave them on and then you can hold onto them when dipping in the chocolate. Much less messy and slippy...
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Put water in a large pan. Put a smaller pan inside. Break the chocolate into pieces and put them in the small pan. Gently melt the chocolate over a moderate heat.
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When the chocolate is melted find a small bowl
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Pour the chocolate in
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Coat the strawberries with the chocolate. Cut a couple of oranges in half and stick some cocktail sticks in to the skin. Ease the coated fruit pieces onto the other end of the cocktail stick. I started by piercing the fruit first and then sticking the cocktail stick in to the orange but chocolate dripped everywhere (see next step for the evidence!!!). By the time I realised it was much less messy the other way round I had nearly finished....
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When you have coated the fruit, put the oranges into the fridge near the top and leave for an hour
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After an hour the chocolate will have hardened and you are left with these delicious - and healthy!! - crunchy chocolate fruit bites. Enjoy!!

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Becky @beckyr

on April 24, 2016 10:30

Alicante, Spain

Born in the UK, I came to Spain after graduating many moons and meals ago, and I'm still here. For me cooking is a great way to unwind at the end of the day. My recipes tend to be quite quick and simple and (mostly!!) healthy too. Also quite seasonal - I prefer buying fresh local produce as much as possible. When I have time, I love spending a few hours cooking, filling my kitchen with delicious smells and great music and then hosting family and friends for long happy meals, laughs, conversation and chilled white wine. I'm a great believer in the power and value of home cooking for our own health, happiness and wellbeing and those of our loved ones and since I joined the Cookpad team 11 years ago I am committed to helping to make everyday cooking more fun for people all over the World. You can see more recipes (in Spanish) on my Cookpad Spain profile here: https://cookpad.wasmer.app/eng/users/1089227