Description
One cannot ask for anything better than fresh fruit from off a tree, dipped in homemade sugar-free dark chocolate. This is a healthy snack or dessert loaded with nutrients and antioxidants for all ages.
Ingredients
- Follow my Paleo Homemade Dark Chocolate Dipping Sauce recipe
- 5 small perfectly round RIPE peaches and/or apricots – refrigerated (cold)
- Lollipop sticks
- Parchment paper
- 4 fresh strawberries – optional (see directions) – refrigerated (cold)
Instructions
- Line a cookie sheet that will fit in your freezer with parchment paper.
- Place your Paleo Homemade Dark Chocolate Dipping sauce in a shallow bowl with a fairly steep edge. Be sure to make plenty for the amount of fruit you are using.
- It should be fluid and at least room temperature.
- Gently cut a small hole in bottom of fruit to remove the seed.
- Use one of the “extra” fruits to fill the hole in bottom with some of the cut piece of fruit or fill with a suitable piece of strawberry.
- Push the lollipop stick in the peach or apricot top and be sure to hold the bottom so the “inside” fruit does not push out.
- Gently hold the stick and fruit, rolling it gently around in the Chocolate Sauce.
- Immediately place the fruit on the parchment paper.
- Do this with each fruit.
- Place in freezer for 3-5 minutes.
- Remove the fruit from the freezer and roll them once again in the Chocolate Sauce and back on the parchment and back in the freezer. Allowing 3-5 minutes between each “dipping”.
- I dipped mine 5 times for a thicker coating.
- The more you dip the thicker the layers of chocolate coating.
- After the last dipping, you may keep the fruit in the freezer 8-10 minutes.
- Serve cold immediately.
- You gently and simply trim the chocolate off the bottom with a small knife allowing the flat bottom of chocolate to remain so they will sit upright if you so desire.
- Save the extra chocolate and the “trimmings” for future use with recipes as a twist on my Chocolate Bark with a delicious sugar-free option.
- If you are making these ahead of time, place them in the back of the refrigerator until you are ready to serve.
- Enjoy!
Notes
Do not leave in the freezer for too long.
If it is warm outside then keep them refrigerated.
