These adorable Halloween Chocolate Covered Strawberries are a fun and simple Halloween themed dessert!

Aren’t these Halloween chocolate covered strawberries cute?! Halloween strawberries are all over tiktok and Instagram, and these homemade version is so fun to make!

Using white, orange, red, and black candy melts, sprinkles, and other fun edible decorations, this tutorial shows you how to make your own ghost, jack-o-lantern, mummy, and blood chocolate covered strawberries, perfect for parties or a holiday gift!

Ingredients and Tools

For all decorated chocolate covered strawberries you’ll need the following:

Tools

Tipless Piping Bags or Ziplock Bags
Scissors
Parchment or Wax Paper
Toothpicks
Sprinkles and Candy Eyes
Styrofoam board (optional)
Paint Brush (optional)
Scribe Decorating Tool (optional)

How to Make

If you’ve never made chocolate covered strawberries before, check out this post for the basic of how to dip them in chocolate before moving onto the Halloween decorations.

Prep

Wash and dry your strawberries. Make sure they are completely dry before you dip them as wet strawberries will not hold the chocolate as well and can cause the chocolate to get grainy.
Put toothpicks in the end of your strawberries and gently pull the stems back towards to the toothpicks, to keep them out of the chocolate.
Melt your chocolate or candy melts according the instructions on the package. In order to keep the best dipping consistency, always heat the chocolate on defrost or half power until melted.

Dipping Strawberries in Chocolate

Holding the toothpick, dip the strawberries in the chocolate, and roll around to get the entire strawberry covered.

After you’ve dipped the strawberry, turn it upside down and gently shake and turn to evenly coat the strawberry with chocolate. Once it’s covered, place onto a styrofoam board or onto a piece of parchment or wax paper to dry.

Mummy Strawberries

These are so cute and I think the easiest of all the decorated strawberries! Place melted white chocolate into a pastry bag. Cut off the tip and drip back and forth over a dried white chocolate covered strawberry until it’s completely covered, leaving a small space in the middle for the eyes.

Place small dots where the eyes are, and put on your candy eyes while the chocolate is still wet. Place back on the parchment and let dry completely.

Blood Drip Strawberries

Use a completely dry white covered strawberry. Place melted red chocolate into a pipeless pastry bag. Cut off the tip and drip onto the top of the strawberry so it looks like dripping blood.

You can pick up the strawberry using the toothpick to help control the drips and placement of the drips. Let dry and enjoy!

Jack-O-Lantern Strawberries

I recommend practicing your faces onto a piece of parchment until you get a design and faces you like, then moving on to the orange chocolate covered strawberries.

Place melted black candy melts into a pastry bag and cut off a very tiny piece of the tip. Adding a bit of shortening to the melted black candy melts will help thin it out so it’s easier to move around.

Draw your faces onto the dried orange chocolate covered strawberries. Using a toothpick or scribe, gently move around the melted chocolate to get it into the exact place you want.

This is a common royal icing technique and can help make sharp corners and tiny lines. Place back on parchment to let dry.

Skeleton and Ghost Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Making skeleton and ghost chocolate covered strawberries is exactly the same process as making Jack-O-Lanterns. I recommend practicing first until you get a face you like and then using very warm or thinned out black candy melts make the faces on the white chocolate covered strawberries as shown. You can move around the black chocolate with a scribe toothpick to get it exactly where you want it.

Sprinkles

Add melted chocolate to a tipless pastry bag and cut off the tip. The size cut off will determine how large the lines are on your strawberry.

Gently drizzle the chocolate back and forth over a dry chocolate covered strawberry. If adding sprinkles, pour on sprinkles while the drip lines are still wet and let dry completely before removing the excess sprinkles.

If doing more than one color, add one color at a time and let dry completely between each color.

When adding sprinkles or sanding sugar, let dry completely before removing the excess sprinkles. You can use a paint brush, pastry brush, or your fingers to gently wipe the excess sprinkles away.

Tips and Tricks

You can not add regular food coloring or gel food coloring to white chocolate melts or it will get grainy. You must use the candy melts in the colors you need them or you can use white candy melts with candy colors, which are oil based food coloring and won’t cause the chocolate to seize.
Make sure your strawberries are completely dry before you dip them. If there is water the chocolate will not stick as well.
After you dip the strawberries, turn them upside down and gently shake them to make sure the strawberries are evenly covered and there are no bumps or drips.
While I use a styrofoam board to dry the strawberries, you can also place them on a clean piece of parchment paper, wax paper, or a silicone mat to dry.
In order to keep the best dipping consistency, always heat the candy melts on defrost or half power. I’ve found heating on full power will almost always overheat the chocolate and you’ll then need to thin it out with vegetable shortening or coconut oil to get it back to dipping consistency.

Storing and Making Ahead

These chocolate covered strawberries are best the day that you make them. But, they will last about 12 hours at room temperate out or 1-2 days in the fridge.

After 12-24 hours they can start to leak or weep strawberry juice and don’t look as nice, but they still taste good.

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