Strawberries from the ground.

April 23rd, 2009

I got to the u-pick strawberries out at Bamboo Farms and Coastal Gardens earlier last week. Over the weekend, my mom and I made some strawberry ice cream, so stinkin’ good, and yesterday I made some Double Chocolate Dipped Strawberries + Dirt in honor of Earth Day.

The “dirt” part is chocolate semi-sweet morsels that I processed a few times in my food processor. I dipped them in dark chocolate and then into the semi-sweet dirt. I also added a 1/2 teaspoon vegetable shortening to the dark chocolate I melted, which is certainly not necessary, but it added a crunch once the chocolate set up that is so bad and yet so good. The idea is loosely based on Epicurious’ recipe here.

Yum. Ridiculously good. So ridiculous. So good.

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