Fresh strawberries dressed up for Cinco de
Mayo. Photo courtesy Harvard Treat
Boutique.

For snacks or desserts, dip fresh strawberries in melted chocolate and decorate in festive colors: aqua, pink, purple or lavender and yellow, for example.

Start with this easy recipe for chocolate-dipped fruit.

Then use decorator icing to pipe squiggles and dots

You can also tint white chocolate pink with food color, and use colored sanding sugar (recipe).

Ingredients

 
Preparation

1. SIFT together sugar and cream of tartar.

2. BEAT in 4 beaten egg whites with an electric mixer. Beat for about 5 minutes or until the mixture is thick enough to hold its shape.

3. DIVIDE the icing and tint with desired food colors.