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How to Dip and Decorate Chocolate Strawberries

Cleaning and Choosing Strawberries

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Rob Kingsbury
Owner/Chocolatier, Kingsbury Chocolates
www.KingsburyChocolates.com  
703.548.2800/877.704.4179

Rob is owner & chocolatier of Kingsbury Chocolates in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, as well as co-owner of the ACKC Cocoa Bar in Washington, DC. Relocating to the DC area in 2001, he opened Kingsbury Chocolates at 1017 King St in Alexandria, VA. This unique chocolate experience focuses on creating a blend of sumptuous & beautiful confections made fresh right on site. Everything is made in small batches by hand using fresh ingredients and imported chocolate. Many recipes have been based on the generations of chocolate connoisseurs in his family, these creations now infuse rich tradition with novel innovation. You can reach Kingsbury Chocolates via email: Sales@KingsburyChocolats.com, or by phone: 703.548.2800/877.704.4179. His latest venture with co-owner Eric Nelson of Artfully Chocolate, is DC's first Cocoa Bar. ACKC is a combination of one part Cocoa Cafe, one part Confectionary, and one part Art Gallery. Guests have the opportunity to create their own beverage from 5 different types of chocolate with a multitude of flavor infusions. Wanting to add a fun, creative, and educational chocolate aspect to DC, Rob also offers classes and tastings. You can learn how to make ganache or simply enjoy a sampling of chocolate from around the world. ACKC Cocoa Bar is located at 1529c 14th St, Washington, DC. Their email is Sales@TheCocoaGallery.com, and phone contact is 202.387.2626/888.758.6699.

Cleaning and Choosing Strawberries

This video will show how to create the intoxicating combination of strawberries and chocolate--perfect for that holiday party!

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Cleaning and Choosing Strawberries

Ingredients

Strawberries
White chocolate
Milk chocolate
Dark chocolate

Instructions

1. Warm up the chocolate in the microwave. Cook it at 50% power for three 45 second intervals. Remove the chocolate and stir after each interval.


2. Hold the strawberries by the stems and dip them into the chocolate. You can also roll them in nuts, coconut, candy pieces, etc. Place the strawberries on a sheet of wax paper and put them in the fridge for a couple of minutes.


3. Form a cone out of wax paper in order to decorate the chocolate-covered strawberries.

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Rob Kingsbury: Hi, I am Rob Kingsbury with the ACKC Cocoa Bar. Today I am showing you how to dip strawberries, decorate them and enjoy them. This clip is going to be about washing and preparing strawberries for dipping. So first of all make sure you get some beautiful strawberries. Right now we have a beautiful blend of strawberries from California. I have already rinsed these off and so next is just going to pick through, pick out the strawberries that I want to use for the dipping and make sure they are really, really dry. So the important step here is making sure that all the water is removed. So you want to take a paper towel and come through, give it a good cover and a good path and you want to make sure when you're doing this that you are getting underneath the green leaves, make sure there is no water hiding under there. So at the same time you are getting the water off, it's a good time to also just remove any dead leaves that you might have on the strawberry and put them aside.

And then when you finish drying them off make sure you put them on to a table rack that has paper towels on, just to make sure that the moisture is getting removed. So now we have finished separating the berries. What I have done is I have picked through the batch that I bought and I picked out just the largest ones, for the dipping and I put the smaller ones in the bowl over here as well as the ones that have little bit of spoilage or little marks or mars on it. We are not going to let this go to waste. We will be able to enjoy these by just taking of the tops and adding a little sugar and we can store it in the freezer for an indefinite amount of time and then bring these back out at any point to make strawberry shortcake, strawberry rhubarb pie, you can bring it back out to make a nice milkshake whatever you want to do with the strawberry.

But for now we have got these great strawberries that I have separated out, cleaned the leaves. I have got the little dead leaves in the bowl here so these strawberries are ready to go.

Alright and so right now we are going to put these berries aside for a few minutes and we are going to melt down our chocolates. So today we are going to be using nice white milk and a dark chocolate from Belgium. I will be right back.

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