Dh sometimes takes us to St. Michaels in Maryland, where there is a restaurant that serves you a huge chocolate covered strawberry when you are finished your meal.

Our local fruit stand had homegrown strawberries today and Billie the owner said they were delicious.

I got two quarts. I had already bought the Baker's dipping Chocolate in the microwavable container (I thought I would try it on pretzels) and I headed to the store. I bought Nestle's Premier White Morsels.

Alyssa and I went home, cleaned the strawberries, microved the chocolate and started dipping. We did 22 strawberries! Placed them on wax paper on a tray. Then I placed about 30 morsels in a baggie microwaved less than a minute. Cut the end of the bag and drizzled it on the strawberries!

Refrigerated for 2 hours until dks and dh came home and boy were they surprised!

DH said "You did this?" Needless to say they are all gone;)

Boy did I surprise the family.

I can't believe how good these strawberries were! I'm going back tomorrow!

And I can't believe how easy it was!

By Sunny on Tuesday, May 25, 2004 - 07:24 pm:

Yum! They sound good! Next time, make enough for all of us, 'kay?

I want to take the kids to 'Pick your own' strawberries this year. The strawberry season should start in about a week or so. Maybe we'll make chocolate covered ones, too!

By Boxzgrl on Tuesday, May 25, 2004 - 07:36 pm:

Mmmmmm.... that is my favorite dessert. Isn't the Bakers Dipping Chocolate the best? I did that one night (the first time I ever noticed Bakers and had to buy it) because I was craving it and DH came home and thought I was planning a "romantic" night, LOL! I had some quick thinking to do.

By Tink on Tuesday, May 25, 2004 - 07:37 pm:

Those are so easy and we only dip the bottom third in chocolate so its any easy way for me to get my youngest two to eat some fruit. We also do orange slices. Yummy!

By Emily7 on Tuesday, May 25, 2004 - 08:46 pm:

That sounds so good! I think I am going to the store!

By Janet on Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 10:46 am:

Oranges and chocolate? That sounds interesting...

By Tink on Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 10:50 am:

Is that one of those "interestings" that's just a euphemism for "Eeeewwww?" Really,it's good. We do it with dark chocolate.

By Rayanne on Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 11:18 am:

Send some to me

That sounds sooooo yummmmmmy.

I am going to try and find that stuff.

By Kernkate on Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 12:28 pm:

They sound soooo good. I am going to try some.

By Annie2 on Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 10:14 pm:

I made some covered strawberries tonight. They were very tasty. I also liked licking my fingers of the chocolate while I was dipping them! LOL
I dipped some pretzels, too. I have never had them before. They reminded me of a Twix candybar!
The microwavable tub was TOO easy to do. I am going to save the tub and buy the regular Baker's chocolate for next time.

By Ginny~moderator on Thursday, May 27, 2004 - 08:30 am:

Orange and chocolate is great. Whoever makes those "oranges" that come out around Christmas (a ball of chocolate that you bang on a hard surface for it to separate into orange slice type segments) makes it in dark chocolate/orange and dark chocolate raspberry, and I go wild when I see them on sale somewhere. I have moved over to dark chocolate entirely, and love the Dove dark chocolate squares. The Hershey dark chocolate Kisses are also good but not, imo, as good. And Trader Joes has sticks with orange or raspberry flavored jelly covered with dark chocolate - love them. Now, my oldest son loves blueberrys, and Trader Joes has chocolate covered blueberries, which he says are great.

Annie2, I think "dipping chocolate" has some stuff in it or is treated in a way that makes it better for dipping - you'd have to ask others. But I am guessing it might be better to get that than the regular Baker's chocolate.