Chocolate Covered Strawberry Toppings

[Music] hi everyone welcome back to pretty pastel pastries if you're new here hi my name is gizelle today i have for you guys seven kinds of different toppings you guys can add onto your chocolate covered strawberries today i'm going to be teaching you guys how to prepare them how to store them and lastly how to coat them and decorate them with that being said guys let's hop right into the video so first off we're going to start off with my favorite candy melts of all time you guys know if you guys have been here for quite some time my favorite is gear deli white chocolate melting wafers and dark chocolate as well i also know they carry them in milk chocolate it's like in a light purple bag those are really delicious as well but the consistency of these are just amazing i totally recommend this for beginners out there who are going to start off their new businesses or want to try something new for friends and family these will not give you a problem and they're just amazing and you don't need to add any kinds of oils or anything like that so definitely try these out next up we're going to be using some small little bowls right here for adding in our toppings and lastly silicone cups to melt our chocolate in there and to these strawberries right here i went ahead and pre-washed mine now if you guys want to learn how to wash my strawberries head over to my fall chocolate covered strawberry video and i'll show you guys how i go ahead and do that technique so onto our fun topping city we're going to be using fruity pebbles sliced almonds we're going to be making a really cute s'more strawberry now i don't know about you guys but i personally love anything with like pina colada in it so today we're going to be recreating that on a small little strawberry so we have coconut we have cherries and a pineapple as well right over here we have two kinds of different oreos we're going to be using golden oreos and our classic milk oreos now to end this off i have to include one of my favorite cake flavors of all time it is going to be confetti cake now these are here are mini pop tarts and we're also going to be using a vanilla cake flavored morsels with rainbow confetti so those are all the toppings we're going to be using today if you guys would love to learn please stay tuned alright guys let's get started [Music] so let's start off with melting our chocolate so first we're going to go ahead and place these individually in our microwave at 30 seconds intervals so this is the first 30 seconds of them both being in there separately now as you guys can see right at the bottom they're starting to melt now you always want to make sure you went ahead and stir this up before you place it back into the microwave let's go ahead and go underneath and then just go ahead and bring it up and we're going to do the same to the dark chocolate and i'm going to go ahead and place this in there for 30 seconds more now this is after the microwave after another 30 seconds and i'm gonna show you guys i have not mixed it yet but you guys can see that the melting wafers are starting to melt a lot more so always go ahead and stir that up and make sure you get everything down to the bottom and it's going to be the same for our dark chocolate as well so this is the consistency we are looking for now i'm going to go ahead and also melt more of my chocolate but they're great consistencies i love how easy it is to melt this specific candy melt but before placing it into the microwave you always want to stop and ensure everything is being nice and evenly distributed you always want to mix and have them look like this i'm going to place it in there for 30 seconds more go ahead and mix it up and yeah guys we're going to be all done with our chocolate next up we're going to start off with all of our toppings so starting off with our fruity pebbles now to these right here there's no need to crush them or do anything like that we're just going to go ahead and use them plainly just how they come in their box i'm going to go ahead and grab a small little bowl and place these in here and we're going to set them aside now onto our sliced almonds you do have a choice of either chopping them down or keeping them whole just like how you see them on screen now i'm gonna go ahead and actually show you guys the two different ways you guys can do them so you guys can easily pick and choose which ones you guys want to recreate so i'm just gonna go ahead and place some almonds into this small little bowl now the other option is placing them into a small little ziploc bag or you can also use a food processor whichever one is more easier for you in this case since i'm just going to use a little bit i'm just going to quickly use my small ziplock badge now to this one all i'm gonna do is just um crush them up with my hands you can also do a different route and just go ahead and like smash it with a rolling pin or anything like that but i don't want them to be too fine so i just want them to have you know a little bit of a crunch to it still so i don't want them that small now i'm going to stop right here and i'm going to leave them just like this because i don't want them too small i'm going to go ahead and place these into a small little cup [Music] so we're gonna do the same to our graham crackers over here i'm gonna go ahead and finally smash these or we can put them into a food processor you want to go ahead and take out as much air as you can and we're going to do exactly the same thing and just smash them down now these are here nice and fine and that's how you want the specific texture to be i'm going to go ahead and place this into a small cup as well next up we're going to cut up some small little chocolates for the topping of our s'mores so you can also use hershey's chocolate as well i just happen to have these with me so all we're gonna do is just go ahead and open them up and cut them and they're small little ridges that they already have if you're buying them in a mini size so to these i'm just gonna go ahead and cut like two of these small little bars and for your hershey's chocolate bars they come a little bit like more rectangles so just go ahead and cut each one of them out individually i'm just going to go ahead and set these off to the side and i'm also just going to place some small mini marshmallows into a cup as well so now moving on to a different location we're going to be using our food processor right here now to mine this one has like a different like separate bowl added to it so this is perfect for adding like small quantities of certain things so that is what i'm going to be using today and all you want to do is just adding your golden oreos in here you're going to pulse it and we're going to get it to a very fine crumb [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] now always stop and make sure everything is nice and even so this is exactly what we're looking for i'm just going to go ahead and transfer this into a small little bowl next up we're going to do our chocolate oreo and we'll be right back [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] next up is our confetti cake strawberry so right here i have my pop tart bites and right over here i have these confetti vanilla cake chocolates so we're going to be using these today and i'm just going to go ahead and grab this tiny little processor and we're just going to go ahead and sprinkle these in there we're going to try to get these like a little bit of a smaller size because these are pretty big [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right guys so we're all done with all of our toppings now these are here are going to be our additions on top of our strawberries so now i want to go ahead and jump into storing so if you're going to go ahead and do a lot of this for like selling or anything like that you want to go ahead and purchase tubs just like this these are clear it allows you to see exactly what you have inside and another recommendation i would totally recommend is you grab like a small piece of tape or you can also do kind of like a sticky note just make sure it does not fall off you know the container you want to write down what it is the date you made it on and the date it expires so for example i have right here the cereal these are fruity pebbles and this one right here expires on august 9th of 2021. so you want to go ahead and make sure you write that on here depending on what kind of topping you have inside now you also want to keep in mind that when you're going to go ahead and you know do your strawberries and everything you don't want to work from this exact container what i would recommend is you go ahead you know you fill it up and everything and you go ahead and transfer this into a small little bowl like this you just add it in use as much as you would need and you know um because chocolate does tend to kind of fall off sometimes all of our strawberries and you don't want to add any like extra chocolate pieces or anything in there because that is not um really like cleanly and stuff like that so i would really recommend just go ahead and take some out put some into a bowl and just go ahead and discard all that product that you use in that bowl you do not want to reuse that again um and so this one right here just go ahead and keep using it until you're all done once you're all done purchase more make more add it in here put a new label and yeah guys that's what i would totally recommend for you guys to do and these are really great these are like a great size i'll go ahead and link them down below if anyone is interested now we're going to go ahead and start dipping our strawberries so let me go grab my white chocolate and my dark chocolate so quick little side note my chocolate has been sitting at room temperature for about 25 to 35 minutes and you guys it has not hurting up on me like as opposed to using other candy melts they would have already like you know hardened up on me and i would have had to put it into the microwave but this chocolate right here is amazing you do not have to do that whatsoever so perfect consistency we got our strawberries nice and clean we're gonna go ahead and grab our toothpicks so first off we're gonna start off with our classic oreos so we have our golden and our regular oreo now we're going to do the same thing as you would to any kind of strawberry you're going to go ahead and grab your strawberry place your toothpick on the left or the right hand side go ahead and pick up all of the stems just like that now you have a preference of dipping it into your white chocolate or a dark chocolate i personally love white chocolate itself with the oreos so i'm going to go ahead and dip mines into my white chocolate and we're just gonna put up the chocolate up to the rim so go ahead and dip it put it side to side go ahead and lift back up and take off the excess now we're gonna go ahead and grab our oreo and just go ahead and dip it in there and just go ahead and get all the sides you want to make sure you get the rim and if it helps go ahead and grab like another spoon or something to help you out but yeah we have our oreo right here nice and coated i'm just going to go ahead and set this down and we're going to let that one harden up at room temperature so go ahead and give that a shake just so that it all comes back in the middle and you can start dipping more of your oreos and next we're going to do the same to our golden oreo right over here i'm going to dip it in your white chocolate as well [Music] [Applause] [Music] so next up we have our confetti cake strawberry so i'm gonna go ahead and grab our mixture of our confetti flavors in there go ahead and grab a strawberry i'm gonna go ahead and dip this one in our white chocolate and directly again we're going to go ahead and dip it in there all right guys this is what it's going to end up looking like next up we have our fruity pebbles so i'm gonna go ahead and dip another strawberry in our white chocolate [Applause] [Music] and another thing to keep in mind is you don't want to like worry about any air bubbles or anything like that because everything is going to be covered and you know you're not going to see anything so there's no problem with this super easy guys like anyone can do this all right so i went ahead and coded mine so this is what it looks like guys this looks so good oh my gosh all right next up we have our almond we have our crushed almond now to this one you can dip it into your dark or your white chocolate let's do this one in dark chocolate [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] now next up we're going to do our whole almonds actually and i'm going to dip this strawberry into our white chocolate now to this one you want to go ahead and do the same to the seam i'm actually going to set this one down on our wax paper and then we're going to grab our almonds and we're individually going to place them on there it's just going to be a lot cleaner as opposed to just like rolling it in there it's going to be like really messy and you're going to get chocolate everywhere so we're just going to grab these whole almonds and just place them all around your bearing nothing special they do not have to be like placed perfectly or anything like that we just want to see that the front is nice and clean now next up is our s'mores berry now to this one i want to go ahead and just leave it like a blank canvas i'm just going to dip it in our dark chocolate and i'm not going to add any graham crackers just yet but we will a little bit later sometimes you get really lucky you find those really big strawberries which i like adding to like one box or you know one or two these huge berries just because they're so big one time i got like a really huge bearing i was like oh my gosh like they come they actually come out that big it's crazy i really wish like there was a place where i can like pick my own berries instead of buying all of these boxes and getting all these small little berries it's like such a big hassle but it's part of the game you know it is what it is but you know you find those stores that have the really great quality strawberries and you know you go to that store every single time and yeah which store i love going to is going to be uh sam silver costco um they do have a membership guys you do have to purchase it but i totally recommend it they're their size berries are really good and they taste amazing so pick and choose you can go to grocery stores to find out which ones are like really good or you can go to stores like that where you do have to buy a membership but you get great quality berries i don't know all right so we have our plain chocolate buried right over here it's gonna get nice and set at room temperature next up we have our coconut so i'm gonna go ahead and place this into a small little cup and we're gonna go ahead and roll it in there and if you have any like big pieces of coconut in there just go ahead and kind of like break it up a little bit that's totally fine all right and this one is sweetened by the way you can use unsweetened up to you and i'm gonna go ahead and roll this one in our white chocolate [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right guys so we're all done with all of our toppings they all look so delicious i'm just going to go ahead and clean up here and we're going to go ahead and just decorate the final touches and we're going to be all done so we're just going to finish up our s'more strawberry pina colada and confetti cake strawberry all right guys so let's get started i went ahead and added some dark chocolate and white chocolate into a piping bag right here so first off let's start off with our s'mores let me just scoot this one over a little bit so to our piping bag we're going to cut like a small tip and it always helps if you kind of like squeeze the bag in the beginning like this just so that it's nice and clear then you go ahead and cut it's just a little bit more easier and remember you always want to test it out i'm gonna test it out right over here perfect so we're just going to do a plain drizzle to this one then we're going to grab our graham cracker crumbs and we're going to set them off to one side [Applause] [Music] [Applause] awesome just like this i'm just gonna go ahead and set this down and we're gonna let it you know get nice and firm so next up we're gonna work on our confetti cake strawberry so all i'm gonna do is just grab a pop-tart they are so small they're so cute they look like this i'm gonna cut a small tip on my white chocolate and i'm just going to go ahead and add amount of chocolate in the center just so that it has enough for the little pop tart to stick onto it and i'm gonna set it off at an angle we're gonna let it harden up just so that they know it's like a pop-tart and you know it gives some hints on what it is and lastly to our piano colada we're just going to go ahead and grab our pineapple topping this one is from the brand smuckers and it's kind of like liquidy so it's perfect so we're just going to go ahead and grab a little bit so we're just going to go ahead and add a little bit of this topping on there just like that you don't want too much now i went ahead and grabbed a cherry we're going to use these cherries right here now before we add it on here i'm just going to go ahead and dry it off actually you want it dry so that the chocolate sticks to it so just making sure that it's completely dry then we're going to add a mound of white chocolate in the center just like that then we're going to grab our really dry cherry and we're gonna place it in the center and you're just gonna help it you know just hold it for a while just go ahead and hold it for about 30 seconds and you can't tell me that doesn't look really good like the first thing they're gonna eat is like probably the cherry on there but once they eat it you know all together and they taste like the flavors and everything it's gonna taste just like pink colada and it looks amazing who would not like to try this so to finish off our s'mores berry we're gonna go ahead and grab our dark chocolate again and you're gonna add another amount of chocolate in the center we're gonna go ahead and add in our mini little chocolate bar and hold it at an angle as well so again add a little bit of chocolate to the center then add in your marshmallow and just hold it there for a couple seconds now to make it extra fancy i'm gonna go ahead and grab a lighter and we're just gonna go ahead and let it just like a little bit all right so we have our toasty marshmallow it looks everything looks amazing i love how everything turned out i'm gonna go ahead and clean up here fix it up a little bit and show you guys the end result so we're all done with all of our flavors so we have our s'more strawberry pina colada frosted confetti cake whole almonds funfetti oreo crushed almonds the last of your golden oreos thank you guys so much for staying to the end of this video now don't forget to give me a big thumbs up and subscribe to my channel down below now today's post notification shout out goes to kiki williams thank you so much for watching my videos here on youtube now if you want to be featured on my next video all you have to comment is strawberry emojis down below and i'll be sure to give a subscriber a lucky shout out all right guys i'll see you on the next one and don't forget to recreate these guys they're so easy you guys can definitely do this alright have a lovely day bye [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you

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Keywords: chocolate covered strawberries, chocolate strawberries, how to make, strawberry toppings, chocolate covered strawberry toppings, toppings, oreo strawberries, coconut

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Length: 26min 13sec (1573 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 06 2020