Chocolate Drizzled Raspberries
A small drizzle of chocolate makes a serving of fresh raspberries into a delicious and elegant dessert. This recipe is so easy to make that you can make a large amount for a party or just melt few chocolate chips to drizzle on your raspberries for your own treat.
Servings: 6
Note: If you are cooking for a particular style of eating, please check all of your ingredients carefully.
Equipment
- dessert dish (optional)
- mini martini glass (optional)
Ingredients
- 12 ounces fresh raspberries
- 1 ounce baking chocolate of choice (dark, semisweet, milk, white)
Instructions
- Rinse raspberries and allow them to dry at room temperature.
- Place each serving of raspberries in a dish.
- To melt the chocolate, use a dry bowl and dry spoon. Break the chocolate into pieces and microwave for 30 seconds on a medium setting. Remove from microwave and stir gently.
- Return to microwave for 30 seconds on a medium setting. Remove from microwave and stir gently. Continue until chocolate is mostly melted. You want to heat the chocolate slowly, so don't use a higher setting or longer cook time, even if at first there appears to be little progress. Heat for 30 seconds at time on a medium setting, and stir gently. When only small pieces remain, stir gently and allow the warm chocolate to melt the remaining pieces.
- Drizzle raspberries with chocolate.
- Allow to cool. It's best to cool the chocolate slowly rather than cooling it in the refrigerator. It's OK to refrigerate after the chocolate has cooled.
Notes
This recipe is perfect for entertaining. You can make the Chocolate Drizzled Raspberries early in the day and there is little effort needed at serving time.
You can also drizzle chocolate on just one serving of raspberries for a quick treat.
You can use any size dish, such as large dishes for a serving of dessert, or small dishes for a dessert tray with assorted desserts.
You might end up with some white streaks in your chocolate, especially if you heat or cool the chocolate too much or too quickly or if the air is humid or condensation forms. This will affect the appearance, but the raspberries will still taste great.
To use up leftover melted chocolate, you can make nut clusters. Stir in unsalted unroasted nuts, such as macadamia nuts, almonds or cashews, and drop by spoonsful on parchment paper or waxed paper. Allow to cool.
Nut Clusters made with leftover chocolate and macadamia nuts.
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