Chocolate Covered Strawberry "Carrots"

One last quick post before Easter - if you haven't decided on dessert or just want a fun little thing to make and/or take check out these fun chocolate covered strawberries. This is very easy and fast to do. I am making chocolate frosted, and green "grass" frosted cupcakes, and will plant one of these "carrots" on top. Gonna be cute :)

You just melt orange chocolate disks (they come in a bag, I find them at the craft store and sometimes the grocery store) and holding the green top part of the clean dry strawberry, dunk it in. Shake off the excess (gently, you want to keep the green stem if possible) and lay on a piece of parchment or waxed paper until they dry. Repeat for as many berry "carrots" as you want. To finish, put the remaining melted chocolate in a plastic baggie, snip a small corner off, and drizzle it over.

one year ago: Brooke makes a candleholder

Dipped Shortbread Cookies

We had friends over to watch football and even though everyone said they didn't want dessert I knew I better have a little sumthin' sumthin' on hand just in case. I was busy making meatballs (the best meatballs I've ever made! Will post that later I promise - I'm still thinking about them and how great they were) so didn't have time to do anything too time consuming...I usually have a box or two of girl scout cookies in the freezer and I had chocolate candy melt stuff leftover from making dipped pretzels so I made just about the easiest "after meatball sliders we don't want dessert" dessert ever.

1. melt the chocolate:

2. dip one edge of a shortbread cookie in the melted chocolate and shake it a little to remove some of the excess: 
                                                                 

3. lightly sprinkle with coarse salt, put on parchment paper until set, doesn't take long at all.

Oh, and for the record - maybe no one "wanted" dessert but these were devoured in like 3 minutes.