How to make strawberries in chocolate at home?

Tasty and beloved by many summer berries - strawberries - the popular ingredient of many desserts. The combination of strawberries and chocolate will delight both adults and the dither. How to cook such a tasty and exquisite dessert as strawberries in chocolate?

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Cooking strawberries in chocolate - process features

Preparation of berries

The initial stage of the preparation of the dessert is to process berries.

For the preparation of dessert, use exclusively ripe and whole berries, without damage and traces of damage.
The product is carefully so wash, but after - dry, using, for example, with a paper towel. Before immersion in chocolate, strawberries should be completely dry.
Do not remove the tails.
If the original dessert is preparing for an adult audience, at the stage of preparation of berries in each of them you can enter a small amount of liquor or brandy. So strawberries will acquire a light savory fragrance. Entering alcohol is necessary with a syringe.

Chocolate selection

For the preparation of dessert, any chocolate can be used at your discretion. An important condition is the high quality of the product, as well as the absence of additives and fillings. For a more subtle and aesthetically attractive (factory) coating, an emulsifier can be used. Calculation of additives is made on the basis of the ratio of 2 tbsp. l. At 400 g of chocolate. The emulsifier is introduced into a melted chocolate with continuous stirring.

Preparation of the necessary inventory

If the berries have sufficiently large tails, during the dive into the chocolate mass you can hold the strawberry for them. Otherwise, it is recommended to use toothpicks that will act as a swipes.
For interesting chocolate patterns, the confectionery bags are best used. If there are no available, use dense breakfast packages. An alternative can act the strawberry watering technique, at which the melted chocolate for the decor is closed in a spoon, and then the spoon rises, and the berry is poured by a thin chocolate jet.
To dry the dessert, it is better to use a baking sheet (or any dish) covered with parchment. If you decide to take advantage of the emulsifier, the berries are better to dry on the weight - the glaze freezes quickly.
Try not to lay out strawberries close to each other.

Dessert decoration

An interesting effect is achieved when creating various patterns and drawings from chocolate contrasting colors.
You can decorate a strawberry dessert and with the help of any crushed nuts, coconut chips, colored sugar, citrus sodes, poppy.

Feed dessert

It is better if you leave the chocolate to be enhanced at room temperature. So you will avoid uneven cooling, as a result of which spots may form on the surface of the chocolate. When the glaze "grab", the dish can be placed at a time in the refrigerator and cool. If it is hot in the room, the dessert goes to the cold Skaz.

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Cooking strawberries in chocolate - Dessert recipe

0.5 kg of strawberry berries;
350 g of chocolate (100-150 g of each type);
200 g almond nuts.

Chocolate can be used any - white, milk or black, as well as their arbitrary combinations.

Each type of chocolate is separately grinding to obtain chocolate chips.
Melt products using a water bath. Clean the nuts from the husks and grind, using a blender or knife.
Prepare a parchment tray.
The washed and dried berries alternately dip in the selected type of chocolate.
Next, if you wish, getting decoration. You can pour the berry with the icing of contrasting color, so omit the strawberries into a container with nuts.
Finished dessert lay out on the parchment on the drying.