#EasterFruitFriday - Easter Themed Chocolate Covered Strawberries

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Fruit and Easter aren't two words that go together very regularly - and let's face it - it's a much less appealing word association than chocolate and Easter.

However, at Fruit for the Office we believe that fruit can go with absolutely everything so we've taken one of our favourite treats - chocolate covered strawberries - and Easter-fied them!


The Easter Bunny's Favourite: Chocolate in a Carrot Disguise 

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• Melt a bowl of white chocolate (enough for the amount of strawberries you're using) in a bain marie
• Mix red and yellow food colouring into the melted white chocolate until you have the perfect carrot orange colour
• Dip each strawberry in up to the stem (leave the stems intact for the most convincing carrots!) 
• Once the chocolate covered strawberries are dry, use a skewer to draw carrot-like ridges into each of your treats
• Leave in the fridge to set then serve!

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Traditional Easter Egg Hunt: 
Pastel Perfect

• Remove the stems from the strawberries
• Melt a bowl of white chocolate (enough for the amount of strawberries you're using) in a bain marie
• Seperate the melted white chocolate into different bowls and add a small amount of pink, purple, yellow and blue food colourings to each bowl to create pastel colours
• Dip each strawberry into one colour
• Once the chocolate covered strawberries are dry, use a skewer to draw stripes in a different pastel shade onto each strawberry to create a striped easter egg effect!
• Leave in the fridge to set then serve!

A Cracking Chocolate Surprise: Baby Chick

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• Remove the stems from the strawberries
• Melt a bowl of white chocolate (enough for the amount of strawberries you're using) in a bain marie
• Seperate the melted white chocolate into four different bowls (two large, two small)
• Leave one of the large bowls white and add yellow food colouring to the second large bowl
• In one of the small bowls, mix red and yellow colouring to create orange and then use black in the second small bowl
• Dip each strawberry fully into the yellow food colouring
• Once the yellow coloured chocolate is dry, dip the strawberry half way up into the plain white chocolate, using a skewer to create the zig zag effect of a cracked egg
• Use the black coloured chocolate with a skewer to add two little eyes to the yellow section of the chocolate
• Then use the orange chocolate with another skewer to create a triangular beak to create a little chick!
• Leave in the fridge to set then serve!

Tweet us @office_fruit and let us know your favourite Easter treat or let us know in the comments about other ways you could decorate chocolate covered strawberries for #EasterFruitFriday!