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    Home » Holiday Treats and Recipes » minor holiday recipes » April Fool's Day

    Strawberries and Cream Berry Baskets for "berry" special people.

    Published: May 11, '13 · Modified: Feb 23, '18 · By: Beth · This post may contain affiliate links.

    Show the special people in your life that you love them berry much with these Strawberries and Cream Berry Baskets! This original dessert will leave your mouth watering and craving more of these adorable treats.

    Show the special people in your life that you love them berry much with these Strawberries and Cream Berry Baskets! This original dessert will leave your mouth watering and craving more of these adorable treats.

    I hate that this post is coming to you so late. I know teacher appreciation week is now over and Mother's Day is tomorrow, but I am sure you will be able to find so many other uses for these Strawberries and Cream Berry Baskets.

    I thought you'd have seen this project days ago, but I've been vacationing in Mexico and stayed at a resort that charged ridiculous prices to use the internet per hour. I rushed to complete three recipes before we left home and had visions of sitting on the patio in my lounge chair each morning writing  and editing my posts while my exchange student and husband slept.

    On the plus side, the money I saved by staying off my computer allowed me enough for an excursion to swim with sea turtles and visit Mayan Ruins. It was actually really nice to just relax and unplug for a while. If you sent me any questions via e-mail or in the comments in the past week, I'll do my best to answer them this weekend.

    Show the special people in your life that you love them berry much with these Strawberries and Cream Berry Baskets! This original dessert will leave your mouth watering and craving more of these adorable treats.

    Many of my edible craft recipe ideas come about because of questions from readers, and today's Strawberries and Cream Berries are one such project. I created this recipe after many readers from around the world have asked how to make modeling chocolate if they can't buy corn syrup in their country. I am finding quite a few alternatives.

    Modeling chocolate just requires a thick liquid be added to melted chocolate making it pliable so you can sculpt it into shapes. In the past few years I've shared modeling chocolate recipes that have used honey to make Edible Books, peanut butter to model Thanksgiving Turkeys, and dulce de leche to make Fudgy Bears, Caramel Pumpkins, and Inside Out Caramel Apples. I've even used Root Beer Ice Cream Topper to make book covers for Rice Krispies Treat School Books.

    Show the special people in your life that you love them berry much with these Strawberries and Cream Berry Baskets! This original dessert will leave your mouth watering and craving more of these adorable treats.

    I recently discovered that jelly mixed with white chocolate works perfectly to create a nice pliable modeling chocolate with a sweet fruity flavor. Unless you use a clear jelly, your modeling chocolate will also have a slight hue.

    While experimenting I chose to use strawberry jelly which made light pink modeling chocolate. I added more coloring and decided to sculpt actual strawberries which I arranged in a basket.

    Show the special people in your life that you love them berry much with these Strawberries and Cream Berry Baskets! This original dessert will leave your mouth watering and craving more of these adorable treats.

    Each basket of berries is accompanied by a card printed with sweet phrases like, "Mom, I love you berry much," "Teacher, thanks for being so sweet," and "I couldn't have picked a better friend." If you want to give the gift to a group of volunteers, nurses, or workers, you can even tell them that you "couldn't have picked a better bunch of _________" and fill in the blank.

    I couldn't have picked a better bunch of readers!

    You can get a printable version of these tags, here - I couldn't have picked a better mom tags.

    Happy Mother's Day to all you moms out there. My mom just moved back from Florida, so we'll be celebrating together this year. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

    Show the special people in your life that you love them berry much with these Strawberries and Cream Berry Baskets! This original dessert will leave your mouth watering and craving more of these adorable treats.

    Strawberries and Cream Berry Baskets (makes about 24 strawberries)

    Ingredients:

    16 ounces white chocolate, finely chopped or white confectionery coating/candy melts
    ⅓ cup strawberry jelly, plus more, if needed
    green and red paste or gel food coloring
    corn syrup, golden syrup, or water to attach the leaves to the strawberries

    Supplies:

    optional, fine mesh strainer
    gallon size zip top bag
    rolling pin
    rose calyx cutter or a small daisy cutter
    gumpaste veining tool or wooden skewer

    Instructions:

    Show the special people in your life that you love them berry much with these Strawberries and Cream Berry Baskets! This original dessert will leave your mouth watering and craving more of these adorable treats.

    Before you begin, if you have never made modeling chocolate and you want to read a detailed explanation about it, read my Chocolate Making Tips Page. This will help you if you have any problems with greasy or dry modeling chocolate too.

    Melt white chocolate or confectionery coating and allow it to cool to between 88 and 91 degrees Fahrenheit, stirring the bowl often as it cools. Stir in the strawberry jelly. It will get thick fast. If there is any hardened chocolate on the sides of your bowl, don't mix it in as it will just create hard clumps in your modeling chocolate.

    Note:  I made this recipe twice and the second time I pressed the jelly through a fine mesh strainer to make it smoother which made it easier to incorporate. You'll definitely want to do this if you use jelly that has seeds in it.

    Show the special people in your life that you love them berry much with these Strawberries and Cream Berry Baskets! This original dessert will leave your mouth watering and craving more of these adorable treats.

    If your modeling chocolate is dry, add a bit more jelly, about ½ tablespoon at a time. Mix it well until smooth and pliable, but not too soft. If you end up with greasy modeling chocolate, see my Chocolate Making Tips Page for instructions on correcting that problem.

    Remove ¼ - ⅓ cup of the modeling chocolate. Color that small amount with green food coloring. Color the rest with red food coloring.

    Show the special people in your life that you love them berry much with these Strawberries and Cream Berry Baskets! This original dessert will leave your mouth watering and craving more of these adorable treats.

    Wrap both the green and red modeling chocolate in plastic wrap and let sit at room temperature for about an hour.

    Show the special people in your life that you love them berry much with these Strawberries and Cream Berry Baskets! This original dessert will leave your mouth watering and craving more of these adorable treats.

    Remove the green modeling chocolate from the plastic wrap and knead for a few seconds, just to make it more pliable.

    Cut through two sides and the top of a zip top bag, so the bag is only attached on one side. Roll the green modeling chocolate in between the bag until it is about 1/16th inch thick. Use a rose calyx cutter or a daisy cutter to cut the green leaves for your strawberries.

    Show the special people in your life that you love them berry much with these Strawberries and Cream Berry Baskets! This original dessert will leave your mouth watering and craving more of these adorable treats.

    Pinch off pieces of the strawberries and cream modeling chocolate, roll into balls, then shape into strawberries of varying sizes. Use a veining tool or wooden skewer to create holes to represent the strawberry seeds in all the strawberries.

    Show the special people in your life that you love them berry much with these Strawberries and Cream Berry Baskets! This original dessert will leave your mouth watering and craving more of these adorable treats.

    Fill baskets with strawberries and give as gifts to special people. Teacher appreciation week is over, but these would also make great gifts to use at the end of the year.The berries should stay fresh for up to 2 weeks. Store them in an airtight container at room temperature or wrap them up in the basket with plastic wrap or clear cellophane.

    If you are looking for more fun Back to School or Teacher Appreciation Gift ideas be sure to check out all these other amazing food craft and recipe ideas on my School & Teacher Treats Page.

    Whether you want to surprise your kids when they head back to school or thank a teacher for a job well done, these cute school and teacher's treats will score you an A+.

    Items used to create this project that are available from Amazon (commission earned for sales)

       
        

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    1. Victoria Taylor

      May 01, 2016 at 9:38 am

      Do you have the actual "I couldn't have picked a better mom" tag for reproduction - in a jpeg or pdf or anything? This is an adorable idea! We have a strawberry farm and this would be cute to do with real or chocolate molded strawberries.

      Reply
      • Beth

        May 01, 2016 at 10:31 am

        Hi Victoria, I just added a printable file of the "I couldn't have picked a better mom" tag in the blog post above. Now you can click on the link and print out the tags. https://hungryhappenings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/I-couldnt-have-picked-a-better-mom-tags.pdf

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        • Victoria Taylor

          May 01, 2016 at 10:53 pm

          Thank you so much - I saw it!!

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          • Beth

            May 02, 2016 at 10:14 am

            You are welcome. 🙂

            Reply
    2. Jill @ KitchenFunWithMy3Sons.com

      May 22, 2013 at 5:12 pm

      This is so cute!!

      Reply
    3. Trish - Mom On Timeout

      May 21, 2013 at 9:48 pm

      Oh my goodness! These are absolutely adorable!

      Reply
    4. traci's mixed bag

      May 16, 2013 at 7:00 pm

      So impressive.

      Reply
    5. Jo and Sue

      May 14, 2013 at 12:52 pm

      So cute! Love these. I love the addition of jam to the modeling chocolate. Great idea 🙂

      Reply
    6. The Partiologist

      May 13, 2013 at 11:45 am

      Let's pretend I made these for you! I love this basket of strawberries!! 🙂

      Reply
      • Beth Jackson Klosterboer

        May 13, 2013 at 2:44 pm

        Thanks again for filling in for me last week. I'll write and let you know what happened while we were away.

        Reply
    7. Kalamity Kelli

      May 12, 2013 at 8:03 pm

      How fun! I love the incorporation of the jelly into the white chocolate. It gives me a few ideas myself!

      Reply
    8. Sona - quick picks/pick quicks

      May 12, 2013 at 7:20 am

      wow!! this is just soo cute !!

      Reply

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