We officially ended the sugary sweet candy season with the Easter holiday. During the holidays beginning last fall up until Easter I noticed in the mall’s candy shops some of the prices on some of their sweet treats. Five dollars for a single piece of candy! Yes really.
While strolling through one particular sweet treat shop I noticed tiny chocolate baskets filled with berries and chocolate covered. This was the five dollar treat. I thought there must be something under the berries that made it special or different. My curiosity got the best of me and I decided to purchase one of these sweet fruity treats. I chose the blueberry chocolate basket.
I start breaking the chocolate away from the top of the berries. I ate the mediocre chocolate and fed my sweet girl the blueberries. Was there anything special about this cup? Nope.
The wheels in my head started to turn. I went to the store and purchased strawberries, blueberries and melting chips. I tried the whole little basket candy mold idea and that was a disaster. I would make six baskets and on a good batch only one would come out without cracking and then I would break it somehow. I then decided to buy holiday themed cupcake wrappers.
I placed the cupcake wrappers in a muffin pan, stacked the berries in the wrapper, melted the chocolate, filled zip-loc bags with the melted chocolate, made a tiny hole in the bag and piped the chocolate over the berries. That simple, cost much less and just as good if not better than the five dollar piece I bought.
The only problem I had with the fruit choices I made was with the strawberries. When I added chocolate over the strawberries, the sugar in the chocolate started working with the sugar in the strawberries and it made a syrup. If you do decide to use strawberries, I would suggest make them the day you want to eat them. The blueberries held up well. I also think raspberries, cranberries and pomegranate arils.
I hope you enjoy!
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