Chocolate Filled Strawberries

Like I said, those 12 pounds of cheap strawberries I bought this last week would lead to a lot of strawberry recipe posts!  

This one is super easy to do.  Simply cut off the top of the strawberry and cut a small hole out of the middle.

Melt some chocolate in the microwave, stirring every 30 seconds until done.  

Put the chocolate into a Ziploc baggie, cut the tip of the bag off, and squeeze some chocolate into each strawberry center.

Place in the fridge to set.

Now, I must admit, you cannot eat these straight out of the fridge.  They need to be room temp or meltier to eat (well, you CAN eat the straight out of the fridge, but I personally did not like the big chuck of hard chocolate in the middle).

The solution?  Sit outside in the sun and let your chocolate melt a little bit (not all the way).  NOW they can be eaten in bites!  And they are oh-so-delicious!

While I like the look and ease of these, I truly think I'll stick to strawberries dipped in chocolate in the future (except maybe parties and such).  Though, eating them outside once melty really was just fine in my opinion ;)

Frozen Yogurt Bites

As I was cleaning up my "drafts" section in my blog, I came across this recipe experiment from Pinterest that I had tried over a year ago but never published.  This is why I'm working to be more organized!  Here it is:

I stumbled across a yummy and easy idea on Pinterest a while back that I wanted to try.  Frozen yogurt bites for my kiddos (oh, okay, and me too!).   All you need is yogurt!  You can do this with any kind of flavored yogurt.  I only had plain on hand, so I made my own flavor.  I mixed plain yogurt with a bit of strawberry preserves (the strawberry chunks got in the way, but again, it's just what I had on hand...avoid preserves if possible), and a touch of agave nectar to sweeten it.

Scoop your yogurt into ziploc bag.  

Cut a small corner off of your ziploc bag and begin to squeeze the yogurt into small dots on a plate (I used an 8x8 ceramic dish).  It needs to be able to fit in your freezer.  

Freeze the dots until they are solid, remove them from the plate, and place them in a bag or container to be stored in the fridge until eaten.  Eat them frozen!  My girls thought this was the coolest treat!  It does take work, but it was special and fun, so it was worth it ;)

Have you tried anything new from Pinterest recently?  How'd it turn out?  

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