Halloween Chocolate Covered Strawberries

These easy Halloween strawberries include spooky ghosts, mummies, pumpkins, blood splatters and spiderwebs. Simple to make, fun to serve and great to make with your kids.

Course Dessert, Snack

Cuisine American

Prep Time 45

Total Time 45

Servings servings (2 strawberries per person)

Calories 136kcal

Author Slow The Cook Down

Equipment

Parchment paper

Ingredients

20 medium strawberries (approx 1lb / 450g)
8 ounces white chocolate chips (226g)
1 teaspoon oil coconut oil or a neutral flavored oil like canola or vegetable
Writing Gel black and white
Oil Based Food Coloring black, orange and red
dark chocolate chips optional for ghost mouth

Instructions

Place the chocolate and oil into a bowl. Use a microwave to gently melt the chocolate, or use a bain-marie.
8 ounces white chocolate chips, 1 teaspoon oil
One by one, dip the strawberries into the chocolate and place on parchment paper to set.
20 medium strawberries
Color small batches of chocolate for the different decorations.
Oil Based Food Coloring
Decorate!
Writing Gel, dark chocolate chips
MUMMY: Dip in white chocolate. Once set, use a teaspoon to drizzle over strands of white chocolate. Add two black eyes with a gel pen.
GHOST: Dip in white chocolate and let it drip slightly for a tail. Add eyes with a gel pen and dark chocolate chip or more gel pen for the mouth.
BLOOD SPLATTER: Dip in white chocolate. Mix a small amount of white chocolate with red food coloring and stir in a little oil to make it runnier. Use a pastry brush to splatter the red chocolate over the white chocolate strawberry.
PUMPKIN: Color some white chocolate orange and dip the strawberries in. Use a black gel for triangle eyes and a mouth.
SPIDERS WEB: Color white chocolate black and dip the strawberries in. Use white gel to draw the spider web.

Video

Notes

Betty's Top Tips

You can use colored candy melts if you prefer - not need to add oil or food coloring.
Use oil based food coloring. Gel or liquid can cause the chocolate to seize. If this happens, stir in a little oil to loosen it back up.
I prefer to melt the chocolate on the stovetop in a bain-marie as you have more control. If you use a microwave, heat in in short increments and stir frequently so that you don't burn it.
Make sure that the strawberries are dry before dipping them in the chocolate. Keep the leaves on, it will make them easier to handle.
Only add a little oil to the chocolate chips, the chocolate needs to be thinner to give an even coating, but you don't want it to drip off of the strawberries.
Rest the strawberries on parchment paper as the chocolate sets so that they are easy to remove.
Allow the chocolate dipped strawberries to set before decorating. You can pout them in the fridge for 10 minutes to speed this up.
For the blood splatter strawberries - I did mine in the sink so as not to get red chocolate everywhere!
I made 4 of each design with these amounts.

Nutritional values are an estimate and based on a serving of two Halloween chocolate covered strawberries.

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