Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Makes 24 strawberries

Ingredients

16 ounces milk chocolate chips or white chocolate chips

2 tablespoons shortening

1 pound fresh strawberries with leaves

 

Directions

1.              Insert toothpicks into the tops of the strawberries.

2.              In a double boiler, melt the chocolate and shortening, stirring occasionally until smooth. Holding them by the toothpicks, dip the strawberries into the chocolate mixture.

3.              Turn the strawberries upside down and insert the toothpick into Styrofoam for the chocolate to cool.

4.     To get the drizzle effect on top of strawberries, melt either milk chocolate or white chocolate chips in a ziplock bag just until melted don't over cook! Cut very tip of one corner of bag and pipe across strawberries.