Carrot Chocolate Covered Strawberries
Festive and delicious, these Carrot Chocolate Covered Strawberries are a cute addition to your Easter celebration. Enjoy them on their own or use them to decorate a cake or dessert!
No one can resist the delicious sweet flavor of a chocolate dipped strawberry (especially not these Frozen Chocolate Covered Strawberries!). While this sweet treat is often reserved for romantic occasions, this is your chance to enjoy chocolate covered strawberries for any spring celebration!
Carrot chocolate covered strawberries are a simple way to dress up an Easter dessert. They are adorable, tasty and super quick to put together! Serve them alongside Easter Bunny Bait, Easter Pretzels, Peeps Rice Krispie Treats, and Lemon Truffles for a fun and easy Easter dessert table!
Use them to dress up the top of a carrot cake or cupcake, enjoy them as a festive afternoon snack, or share them on top of chocolate pudding and crushed oreos, like a carrot pulled straight from the garden. However you serve them, the cuteness factor is sure to be a hit! Don’t forget to serve this Deviled Egg Dip as your Easter appetizer!
Why Make This Recipe?
- Adorable: Carrots are such a cute Easter decoration and these chocolate covered strawberries make the perfect mini-carrots for decorating desserts.
- Easy: It really only takes a few minutes to make chocolate covered strawberries and very little effort.
- Yummy: Who can resist a delicious chocolate covered strawberry? They are fresh and sweet and oh so good!
What You Need to Make This Recipe
Ingredients
- White Chocolate Chips: You could substitute with orange candy melts
- Vegetable Oil or Coconut Oil: This helps to thin out the white chocolate chips a bit for a smoother finish
- Red and Yellow Food Coloring: Mix to make the perfect orange food coloring
- Strawberries: Make sure they are fresh strawberries, washed and completely dry. Look for large, firm juicy strawberries
- Chocolate Sprinkles: These are optional but give your carrots the appearance of being plucked from the ground
Tools
- Baking Sheet or Cookie Sheet
- Parchment Paper: Parchment paper keeps your chocolate from sticking to the pan and falling off the strawberry
- Piping Bag or Ziplock Bag
How to Make This Recipe
Step One: Melt the Chocolate
Line a cookie sheet with wax paper. Set aside.
Place the white chocolate chips in a microwave-safe bowl and add the vegetable oil into the bowl.
Microwave on high for 30 seconds. Remove the bowl, stir, then microwave again for another 30 seconds. Repeat this in 30 second increments until the white chocolate chips or orange chocolate melts are totally melted (it usually takes me 3 rounds).
Put equal drops of red and yellow food coloring into the white chocolate chips and stir, adding more coloring until your desired orange color is achieved.
Step Two: Dip the Strawberries
Grab the strawberries lightly by the green portion and dip strawberries in the melted chocolate.
After dipping, allow each strawberry to drip any excess chocolate off. and then place the strawberries on the wax paper.
Step Three: Decorate and Serve
Pour the extra white chocolate into a small sandwich-size ziploc bag, then use scissors to cut off a teeny corner of the bag. Drizzle the melted chocolate over the coated strawberries to make the signature carrot lines.
Place the tray in the fridge and allow the strawberries to chill for 10 minutes.
Pour the chocolate sprinkles into a shallow bowl, then nestle the chocolate-covered strawberries amongst the sprinkles to look like carrots in a carrot patch.
Serve and enjoy this festive treat!
Expert Tips
- Make sure you use dry strawberries before you begin or you may get frustrated trying to make the chocolate stick!
- Keep a hot pad under your bowl while you dip your strawberries to keep your melted candy soft and smooth.
- If you often run into the problem of your white chocolate getting too hot and becoming stiff and unusable, try reducing your microwave’s power by about 50%. It may take longer to melt, but it is better than getting too hot, too fast.
- If you have a double boiler, you can absolutely use the double boiler method to melt your chocolate and keep it melted while you dip.
How to Store
These adorable little Carrot Chocolate Covered Strawberries are best enjoyed the same day you dip them, but you could keep them in the refrigerator for up to three days. I recommend placing them on a plate with a paper towel to help soak up any excess moisture the strawberries may leak.
I would not recommend freezing chocolate dipped strawberries.
How to Serve Carrot Chocolate Covered Strawberries
These cute treats are perfect for topping any fun Easter dessert. You can add a sweet little carrot to the top of cakes or cupcakes or mix up some chocolate pudding mix and oreo crumbs to make individual dirt cups. They are the perfect treat for family gatherings.
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Carrot Chocolate Covered Strawberries
Ingredients
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
- 1 Tbsp vegetable oil, or coconut oil
- Red and Yellow Food Coloring
- 10 Strawberries, washed and dry
- 1 cup chocolate sprinkles, for plating
Instructions
- Line a cookie sheet with wax paper. Set aside.
- Place the white chocolate chips in a microwave-safe bowl and add the vegetable oil into the bowl.
- Microwave on high for 30 seconds. Remove the bowl, stir, then microwave again for another 30 seconds. Repeat this in 30 second increments until the white chocolate chips are totally melted (it usually takes me 3 rounds).
- Put equal drops of red and yellow food coloring into the white chocolate chips and stir, adding more coloring until your desired orange color is achieved.
- Grab the strawberries lightly by the green portion and dip each strawberry in the melted chocolate. After dipping, allow each strawberry to drip any excess chocolate off and then place the strawberries on the wax paper.
- Pour the extra white chocolate into a small sandwich-size ziploc bag, then use scissors to cut off a teeny corner of the bag. Drizzle the melted chocolate over the coated strawberries to make the signature carrot lines.
- Place the tray in the fridge and allow the strawberries to chill for 10 minutes.
- Pour the chocolate sprinkles into a shallow bowl, then nestle the chocolate-covered strawberries amongst the sprinkles to look like carrots in dirt.
- Serve and enjoy!
Notes
- White Chocolate Chips: You could substitute with orange candy melts
- Vegetable Oil or Coconut Oil: This helps to thin out the white chocolate chips a bit for a smoother finish
- Red and Yellow Food Coloring: Mix to make the perfect orange food coloring
- Strawberries: Make sure they are fresh strawberries, washed and completely dry. Look for large, firm juicy strawberries
- Chocolate Sprinkles: These are optional but give your carrots the appearance of being plucked from the ground
- Make sure you use dry strawberries before you begin or you may get frustrated trying to make the chocolate stick!
- Keep a hot pad under your bowl while you dip your strawberries to keep your melted candy soft and smooth.
- If you often run into the problem of your white chocolate getting too hot and becoming stiff and unusable, try reducing your microwave’s power by about 50%. It may take longer to melt, but it is better than getting too hot, too fast.
- If you have a double boiler, you can absolutely use the double boiler method to melt your chocolate and keep it melted while you dip.
OMG these are the cutest ever. Definitely making them for Easter this year!
Thank you Aimee!! They are so easy and very cute, so I’m glad you are excited to make them!