Dessert gone wrong

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This week, Ralph’s has strawberries on sale for only 99 cents a box, so Panda got some for his mom. We had a box and tonight, Panda and I attempted to make chocolate-dipped strawberries.  We were optimistic, but soon found ourselves with an unmanageable mess.  This is how it all went down…

milk chocolate and white chocolate morsels

We had the chocolate -

strawberries

- we had the strawberries.

strawberries being washed in a bucket

The strawberries got washed...

melting the milk chocolate morsels in a bowl in a pot

...and the chocolate got melted.

milk chocolate morsels partially melted

milk chocolate all melted down

dipping strawberry into chocolate

Then the strawberries got dipped.

dipping strawberry into melted chocolate

Even with lots of swirling, the chocolate wouldn't quite stick right.

using chopsticks to hold chocolate-dipped strawberry

We had to resort to using chopsticks when it started to get harder.

first chocolate-dipped strawberry

The very first one! Not too shabby... right?

row of chocolate-dipped strawberries

Mmm, looking good!

chocolate drying up

Oh no, what happened? It's getting all dried up now.

about to microwave the chocolate

We give up and decide to try microwaving.

burnt chocolate with water added made mush with chocolate rocks

Panda wanted to try salvaging what apparently was burnt chocolate by adding water. Didn't quite work out as we wanted.

white chocolate morsels

Giving up on the milk chocolate, we decide to start using the white chocolate.

white chocolate dried up

Somehow managed to mess this up too... I swear everything went wrong after we started to accidentally get some water in the bowl.

last bit of white chocolate morsels

One last chance to try to make it right. Going back to how we did it originally.

smearing white chocolate onto strawberry with fingers

The chocolate solidifies quickly when it comes in contact with the cool, moist strawberry, so Panda ended up working on them with his fingers.

tray of milk and white chocolate-dipped strawberries

And to think, we wanted to dip those pineapples too... Next time, I'm getting fondue chocolate!

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