Saturday, April 23, 2011

How To: Imitation Gertrude Hawk Chocolate Covered Strawberries & Happy Easter!

One of my favorite things to do is make Chocolate Covered Strawberries. Believe it or not, I actually don't like them, but I do love to make them! My fiance loves the Gertrude Hawk Chocolate Covered Strawberries, but they're just so expensive. $2.00 for one is just a little over priced for me. I use to buy them for him, but then I came up with a better idea, "Why don't I make them on my own?"

So, what I do now, is buy 5 of the Gertrude Hawk Milk Chocolate .99 bars and melt the chocolate and make them on my own... I decided to do a little tutorial since it's fitting because tomorrow is Easter. :)


What you'll need:
  • 5 or more, depending on how many chocolate covered strawberries you wanted to make, of Gertrude Hawk Milk Chocolate .99 bars.



  • Strawberries



  • Pot to boil water in



  • Some thing to place over the boiling water, I have a bowl for it, but if you don't you can always use any kind of glass bowl, or even use a cookie sheet and place the cookie sheet over the boiling water, and place a bowl on top of it, this is used to melt the chocolate



  • A cookie sheet with Wax Paper to place your chocolate covered strawberries






  • I kind of provided a step by step instruction on how to do this. So follow along. :)

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    I promise this bowl isn't dirty, it's water spots. lol
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    To put the chocolate in to.
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    Wax paper and a cookie sheet.
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    Make sure you clean your strawberries!
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    So, boil some water... any amount of water.
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    Boil on High.
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    Break up your Gertrude Hawk Chocolate bars.
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    As they're melting in your pot, make sure to keep mixing, no one likes burnt chocolate. :)
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    Melted chocolate!
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    Dip your DRY strawberries into the chocolate using a circle/swirly motion.
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    And there you have it.
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    You can even drizzle white chocolate on them, like Gertrude Hawk does, just repeat the previous steps, in this case I didn't because I didn't purchase any white chocolate.
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    Refrigerate for an hour or more, or until the chocolate is hard. So there you have it, your imitation Gertrude Hawk Chocolate Covered Strawberries. Put them in a cute little basket and hand out as gifts to your family and friends. :)

    I hope this was helpful and if you have any questions comment below.

    And... I can't forget...


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    I hope the Easter Bunny is good to everyone! ♥

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