Sweet and Spicy Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Sweet and Spicy Chocolate Covered Strawberries are little packages of chocolatey, sweet, and spicy treats for a delicious and healthy dessert

Disclosure: I was compensated for this post. All thoughts and opinions are completely my own.

Alert Alert!! LWK Public Service Announcement: You need to make these Spicy-Sweet Chocolate Covered Strawberries as soon as humanly possible.

Sorry about the demanding start to my post; I just need you to understand the urgency of these chocolate covered strawberries. They are the world’s most delicious chocolate covered strawberries, and I’ve now made them 4 times in the past week.

I’d like to pretend that it was just for recipe testing, but after the second “attempt,” I’m just gonna call a spade a spade. I can’t stop making these delicious chocolatey treats.

Why? Well, they have a mesmerizing balance of flavors: sweet, salty, and spicy. There’s juicy and chocolatey in there too which means you really can’t go wrong.

Chocolate covered strawberries are an adorable dessert to make for Valentine’s Day {these Chocolate and Raspberry Tartlets are too!}, but I guarantee I’ll be making these all year long. I am obsessed with them.

Not only are they incredibly delicious, they are also on the healthier side of chocolatey desserts. There are no refined sugars and no weird ingredients. Just cocoa powder, coconut oil, maple syrup, cinnamon, cayenne pepper, and salt. The pumpkin seeds add a little extra crunch but aren’t mandatory. However, making these strawberries is mandatory.

They are so satisfying, I can’t even explain. It’s like every flavor combination in one little package. One little bright red, heart healthy strawberry package.

You need to know that the consistency of the chocolate coating is a little different because these are not made with the standard chocolate “coating” or chocolate chips. They’re still really easy to make — melt coconut oil, stir in maple syrup then cocoa powder, cayenne pepper, cinnamon, and salt. But you’ll want to make extra sure that your strawberries are completely dry, and then you’ll have to do a little encouraging of the chocolate to make sure it sticks to the strawberries. It slides off kind of easily, so just don’t let it worry you as you make these.

All you need to do is just get chocolate on those strawberries however you feel like doing it. Once they sit in the fridge and the chocolate hardens, they look like normal and they taste even better!

Sweet and Spicy Chocolate Covered Strawberries

 

Author: Meme

Nutrition Information

• Serves: 1 pint

• Serving size: 2 strawberries
• Calories: 129

• Fat: 8.8g
• Saturated fat: 6.6g
• Carbohydrates: 13g
• Sugar: 8g
• Sodium: 33mg
• Fiber: 3g
• Protein: 1.9g

Recipe type: Dessert

Prep time:  10 mins

Cook time:  1 min

Total time:  11 mins

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Sweet and Spicy Chocolate Covered Strawberries are little packages of chocolatey, sweet, and spicy treats for a delicious and healthy dessert

Ingredients

• 1 pint strawberries {I use Driscoll's}
• ¼ cup coconut oil
• ¼ cup maple syrup
• ½ cup cocoa powder {unsweetened}
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• ½ tsp cayenne pepper
• ⅛ tsp sea salt or kosher salt
• 2 TBSP chopped pumpkin seeds, optional

Instructions

1. Wash strawberries, and dry well. Line a tray with parchment paper or wax paper. Set aside.
2. Heat coconut oil for about 30 seconds in microwave or over low heat in a small saucepan, until melted. Stir in maple syrup. Stir in cocoa powder, cinnamon, cayenne pepper, and salt. Do not over mix.
3. Dip strawberries into mixture, coating all sides. Place on the parchment paper lined plate, and sprinkle with pumpkin seeds if using. Repeat with remaining strawberries.
4. Refrigerate for at least 15 minutes before serving to let chocolate harden. Enjoy!

Notes

*Use ¼ tsp cayenne pepper for a chocolate that is not as spicy.
*One pint strawberries has about 16 strawberries. This recipe makes 8 servings for about 2 strawberries per serving.
*Nutrition Facts are calculated using pumpkin seeds and entire amount of chocolate {I had a little bit leftover after making these}

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If you’re looking for another chocolate dessert great for celebrating Valentine’s Day, here are a few more of my faves…

Chocolate and Raspberry Tartlets

Peanut Chocolate Clusters

Chocolate Drizzled Potato Chips

German Chocolate Brownies

Meme