These are very classic and beautiful looking strawberry tulips. Strawberry and the sweetness of white chocolate goes together very well. Using colored chocolate gives a very beautiful marble effect on the strawberries. You can try a lot of different colors and chocolates to dip strawberries. This recipe is super easy and totally worth the effort. Give it a try.
Ingredients:
- 2 cups clean strawberries
- 15 oz white chocolate
- Red food color
- Sprinkle sugar to decorate
Tip:
- Use good quality chocolate and food color.
- Wash strawberries with cold water before coating them with chocolate.
- While mixing chocolate with cream cheese let chocolate cool to room temperature.
- If the white chocolate thickens while covering the truffles just reheat it in the microwave for 15 -20 seconds.
- Sprinkle sugar to strawberries as soon as they are covered with white chocolate otherwise it won’t stick.
Directions:
- Wash and dry strawberries. Keep aside.
- Take cake pop sticks or lollipop sticks and put strawberries on top of them.
- Melt white chocolate in microwave and divide it in two different bowls by adding 10oz chocolate in one bowl and 5oz chocolate in another bowl.
- Add 3-4 drops of red food color to the bowl with 5oz chocolate bowl and mix well.
- Once the chocolate is at room temperature add the colored chocolate to a piping bag and cut its tip.
- Make some horizontal and vertical lines with colored chocolate on top of the white chocolate.
- Take one strawberry stick, pull all its leaves downward, dump it in the chocolate, twist the stick and take it out and let the chocolate drip. This will give a beautiful marble effect.
- Sprinkle colored sugar on top and keep the stick upright until chocolate solidifies. It will give a tulip like appearance to the strawberry.
- Repeat process for each strawberry stick.
- After all the strawberry sticks are done wrap them with a gift paper to look like a bouquet.