Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Our loyal readers will notice that you get a two-for tonight. After dinner, our evening project, just in time for Valentine's Day, was chocolate covered strawberries. 

Normally, when I'm working with chocolate, I use the Wilton's meltable chocolate. But tonight, we went for taste, so we used the best: Hershey's. We bought Hershey's milk chocolate chips and melted them. 

There are two melting methods: (1) double boiler; and (2) microwave. In all honesty, I never learned how to do the double boiler method right. So we went with the microwave. 

We used a microwave safe bowl, and poured in the chocolate chips. Set a high, we cooked for a minute, then stirred. Note that you need to be very careful not to burn the chocolate. If you don't know your microwave, start with less time and repeat until melted. 

Once melted, dip the strawberries into the chocolate, place on a flat surface and let the chocolate harden. We put them on a plate and then in the refrigerator. 

Billy wanted to do something special, so he put colored sprinkles on top.