How to make chocolate dipped strawberries

I'm getting together with friends for lunch tomorrow and wanted to make a special little treat to share. Delaney was here and together we figured that making chocolate dipped strawberries would be the perfect thing for us to create. Delaney was sure that she knew how to make these delicious treats and wanted to be sure to be totally involved, especially with the chocolate!

So, we got out all the ingredients and set to work. Delaney's first job was being sure that we had enough chocolate, both to sample and to melt for dipping. We also had to choose the biggest and best looking strawberries too.

While I was melting the chocolate for us to use, Delaney was busy with the camera recording the whole process to be sure that I was doing it correctly.

Once the chocolate was melted Delaney was ready to start dipping. It only took one example for her to see just how to do this and then she was ready to be creative.

She's got the hang of it and even knows how to set them down to cool before sampling them.

We have to be sure to get lots of chocolate on each one; but we do want to be sure not to use up all of the chocolate in the pan without having a little left for sampling too.

Delaney did have to stop and take a couple of pictures of the chocolate because the chocolate is the most important ingredient that we were using. (I'm only going to show one of the many pictures she took of this important ingredient!

And, what do you do with any chocolate that might be left over? Why, you get a spoon and eat it of course!

Ta-Da! Here is the finished product.


And just a little chocolate on the face!