If you love the idea of homemade chocolate covered strawberries, try making these! These easy valentine’s day chocolate covered strawberries with sea salt and pistachio make an easy, elegant dessert that’s quite fun to make. Dipped in melty, silky dark chocolate and sprinkled up with crunchy nuts or sea salt, they will easily become your favorite decadent choco-treat!
Believe me when I tell you that I created a monster when I figured out how to dip stuff in delicious melty chocolate… I wanted to just dip everything but the kitchen sink in melted chocolate. Pineapple slices, pretzels, cookies, marshmallows, brownies, rice crispy treats. I could go all day!
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Everything is better dipped in chocolate. Bitting into chocolate-dipped things literally forces me into a happy food dance. I cannot think of a better way to share the sheer perfection of liquid chocolate expression than with these super simple chocolate-covered strawberries.
How To make Chocolate covered strawberries for valentine’s Day
Sprinkles of coarse sea salt and minced pistachios add color and pinches of finishing flavor to these little chocolatey bites of berry heaven. Here’s how we put these chocolate covered strawberries together…
melt your chocolate to make valentine’s chocolate covered strawberries
In a microwave safe bowl, combine coconut oil and chocolate chips. Melt everything together in 15 second intervals, stirring everything together in between to help it along. When chocolate chips are fully melted and seem to run smooth from the spoon, remove from microwave and set aside.
dip your valentine’s day strawberries in melted chocolate
Pick up washed and dried strawberries and dip into the melted chocolate. Do this by holding each berry up by its top green leaves, dipping into the chocolate and swirling around. Tilt the bowl if needed to dip the berries in as deep as possible, bringing the chocolate layer up to cover as much of the red part of the berry as possible.
Be careful not to wet the leafy part of the berry with chocolate. Hold each one up over the bowl for a few seconds and let excess drip off then place on a cookie sheet or baking sheet lined with parchment paper. It’s totally fine if some of the red part of the strawberry peeks through. This too looks pretty.
for uniform results, match your berries by size
As you can see, I dipped different size berries, larger and smaller. If you would like a nice uniform style in most of your berries, examine the ones you have as you are washing and drying them in the beginning and set aside the ones that match in size. You can start choosing the ones you would like best to dip and set.
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Dip valentine’s chocolate covered strawberries in added toppings if desired
If desired, you can simply call it a day right here and set the plain chocolate-dipped strawberries in the fridge to cool and set for 20 minutes or so and then enjoy.
If you would like to add a garnish or topping, dip the berries in the melted chocolate and then dip in minced nuts or sprinkles. You can then set them on your lined parchment sheet, then refrigerate.
Make a swirly drizzle instead
To create the swirly chocolate drizzle + coarse sea salt or pistachio crumb garnish, set your plain dipped chocolate strawberries in the fridge and let the first layer of chocolate cool and harden in the fridge completely, about 20 to 25 minutes.
Right before you’re about to pull the chilled berries back out of the fridge, heat a second small batch of chocolate chips in a small microwaveable bowl (much less, about a 1/2 cup). Stir until smooth and melted and then remove baking sheet with strawberries from the fridge. (Note: If desired, use a different color chocolate for this part, such as white chocolate or colored chocolate chips of your choice. It will stand out and create a beautiful accent color.)
Dip a spoon into the freshly melted chocolate and let the drippings from the spoon drizzle over chilled chocolate strawberries. Be sure to move the spoon in a brisk zig-zag motion over the strawberries to create drizzly lines.
Lastly, while the chocolate is still wet, sprinkle on your toppings. There are so many things you can put on chocolate covered strawberries… Sprinkle on bits of coarse sea salt, minced roasted pistachio bits, colorful sprinkles, or coconut flakes. Anything you like. Set the finished chocolate covered strawberries in the fridge a second time, for the same amount of time to set.
When to Make valentine’s Chocolate Covered Strawberries
Serve these chocolate strawberries at Valentine’s Day or gift these in a little box as a sweet homemade Mother’s Day or Father’s Day Treat! Dress them for any occasion! Sprinkle the chocolate coated strawberries with fun pastel sprinkles to make cute Easter or birthday chocolate treats… Dip them in white chocolate instead and drizzle with melted orange chocolate coins to make spookylicious Halloween berries! They are just too tasty and too much fun to save for one holiday… Make an excuse to eat them all the time!
Easy Valentine’s Chocolate Covered Strawberries w/ Sea Salt + Crushed Pistachios
Ingredients
- 1 pack Fresh Strawberries
- 1 cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
- 1 tbsp Coconut Oil
- Coarse Sea Salt - for sprinkling on/garnishing
- 1 tbsp Finely Chopped - Roasted Pistachios (or Sprinkles or Coconut Flakes) For dipping, if desired
Instructions
- Wash and completely dry your strawberries then line a baking sheet or cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Set little bowls filled with the toppings you would like to use such as coconut flakes or sprinkles. ( I used about a tablespoon of coarse sea salt, and finely chopped pistachios which I sprinkle on with my fingers later on.)
- Add semi-sweet chocolate chips plus coconut oil to a microwave safe bowl and melt together in 15 second intervals. Stirring between intervals to combine. When there are no lumps and chocolate is melted through, it should run freely from your spoon and you'll know it's done.
- Starting one by one, grab each berry by the top green leaves and gently dip in the melted chocolate turning and swirling to coat all the way around each berry. When finished dipping, hold each one up over the bowl for a few seconds to let excess drip off or swipe it against the edge of the bowl to remove excess quickly. Optional: If you would like, at this point you can dip the coated berry into the toppings you set up earlier and then place on the parchment or finish with a swirl design >> instructions to follow ahead.
- Set each one on your parchment-lined baking sheet. When finished dipping, set the entire baking sheet of strawberries in the refridgerator to cool so the chocolate can set, about 20 minutes.
- If doing a little swirl design over the top, melt another 1/2 cup of chocolate chips along with another 1/2 tbsp of coconut oil following the same directions as above. Now remove the cooled, dipped berries from the fridge which should already have their first layer of chocolate completely set. Dip a spoon into your newly melted chocolate and drizzle it over the chilled berries in a brisk zig-zag motion to create swipes or swirls of chocolate.
- Immediately grab pinches of sea salt and crushed/chopped pistachio and sprinkle on to the wet parts of the berry. Do this a few at a time, if desired. Set back in the fridge to chill for another 20 minutes then enjoy!
- Store any remaining strawberries in the fridge and keep chilled at all times. Enjoy for up to 2 or maybe 3 days, depending on the freshness of your berries.
