Dressed to Impress

Want to impress at your next Oscar Party?  Tuxedo Chocolate Covered Strawberries are a fun and easy way to add elegance to your red carpet gala.

 They are not that difficult to make either.   

Supplies:
- Large Strawberries (larger the better)
- Mini cupcake liners (gold, black or white are best)
- white chocolate
- Milk or dark chocolate 
- a disposable pastry bag
- a thin circle tip - #2 or #3 is probably the best to use
- wax paper
- a double boiler or microwave

Melt your white chocolate first and dip the strawberries in a thin coat of white chocolate.  Make sure the front is covered well.  The back you don't really have to worry about.   Set them on the wax paper and let them harden.   To speed up the process place them in the fridge.

Once they are hardened melt the milk or dark chocolate.   This time when you dip the strawberries you need to hold them at an angle so that you get a diagonal line and then repeat the process the other direction, forming a V.  It takes a little practice so you may waste a few strawberries getting the process down (oh what to do with the wasted strawberries) ;-)

Then pour some of the chocolate into a candy or icing bag, the plastic, disposable kind, adorned with a thin circle tip.   I used a Wilton #2 tip, a #1 tip was to thin for the chocolate to pass through.   Pipe two triangles to form the bowtie and then 4 dots, 3 buttons and one in the center of the bowtie.  Thats it, your done!

EASY TO DO AND YUMMY!

Also great for New Years Eve! 

Note: Chocolate melts so much better in a double boiler.  If your going to do things with chocolate with any frequency, invest in one.   But otherwise a microwave will have to do.   Microwave chocolate slowly, 10-20 seconds at a time, stirring after each time.  It is really easy to burn chocolate in the microwave, especially white chocolate.