This low calorie chocolate covered strawberries recipe is easy, delicious, and impressive!
At only 26 calories per chocolate strawberry, you can enjoy a strawberry dipped in chocolate without ruining your diet… Actually, you can have 4 chocolate strawberries and still call it a healthy dessert!
I can’t think of a more romantic dessert than a chocolate covered strawberry… But I also make these for my daughter when I find strawberries on sale. This is such a lovely, versatile recipe, perfect for date nights, or for tea parties with your kiddos.
In this article, you’ll learn how to make strawberries dipped in chocolate in a low calorie way. So you can enjoy your favorite strawberry chocolate treat without ruining your diet.
This chocolate covered strawberries recipe is only 26 calories!!
Chocolate Covered Strawberries Recipe
Chocolate covered strawberry recipes are often high in calories, and fat. But this low calorie strawberries and chocolate recipe is healthy enough for any diet.
It comes down to the best chocolate for chocolate covered strawberries, which in our opinion is always dark chocolate. It plays well off of the sweetness of the strawberries, and is significantly lower in calories than milk chocolate.
This article will teach you how to make chocolate strawberries low calorie, and in just 10 minutes.
To make these low calorie chocolate strawberries easy, we’ve supplied you with the following sections. Read though then for helpful resources, or skip ahead to the recipe card.
What You’ll Find in this Article:
- Chocolate Covered Strawberries Ingredients (shopping list!)
- How to Make Chocolate Covered Strawberries
- Chocolate Covered Strawberries Recipe (recipe card!)
- Nutrition and Calories in Chocolate Covered Strawberries
Along with a low calorie chocolate covered strawberries recipe, you will find a shopping list, printable recipe card, nutrition label, and more…
In the next section, you will find chocolate covered strawberries ingredients, and a shopping list form. This will help you the next time you go shopping, should you find strawberries on sale, you’ll have everything you need to make a chocolate covered strawberry recipe at your fingertips.
Helpful Tip for Shopping: Take a screenshot of the shopping list to your phone. This way you have it at your fingertips the next time you go grocery shopping.
Recipe Card Uses: You can email yourself this recipe card so you can easily search for it (I have a folder in my email just for recipes!) Or print it so you have it handy, and can make notes. You can even pin this low calorie chocolate strawberry recipe to Pinterest so it is safely stored for you.
Up next… The shopping list for chocolate dipped strawberries.
Chocolate Covered Strawberries Ingredients
The best chocolate covered strawberries, is dark chocolate. It has the best flavor, and goes the best with the sweetness of the berries. It’s also significantly lower in calories than milk chocolate.
You can make this recipe for chocolate covered frozen strawberries, or chocolate dipped strawberries that are fresh. Fresh will always be more flavorful, but sometimes you just have to have a chocolate covered strawberry in the middle of winter.
Below, you will find a shopping list for this strawberry dip chocolate recipe. I recommend taking a screenshot on your phone so you have it handy the next time you go shopping.
Shopping List for Strawberries Dipped in Chocolate:
- Strawberries
- Dark chocolate chips
- Coconut oil
As I noted above, the best chocolate strawberry combination, is fresh strawberries and dark chocolate. Of course, you could use any type of chocolate in place of the dark chocolate, and you can use frozen strawberries with this chocolate dip for strawberries.
Special Tip: In the recipe card below, you will find measurements, how to guide, and more. There, you can choose how many chocolate covered strawberries you would like to make, and the recipe card will do the math for you!
You can find measurements, and more in the printable recipe card for chocolate strawberries below.
How to Make Chocolate Covered Strawberries
In this section, you will learn how to make chocolate covered strawberries low in calories, and in just 10 minutes.
Now that you have your chocolate for dipping strawberries in, and know best type of chocolate, and strawberries to purchase… Let’s move onto the how to guide for this recipe for chocolate covered strawberries.
This how to guide, will show you how to make strawberry dipped in chocolate recipe easy, and seamless.
How to Make Chocolate Strawberries:
- Set up a double boiler: Add some water to a small pot, place a heat safe bowl over the top of the pot so that it seals but does not touch water.
- Cover a plate with parchment paper, set aside.
- Bring the water to a boil, then add the chocolate and coconut oil to the bowl. Mix the chocolate as it melts.
- Once the chocolate is completely melted, dip the strawberries into the chocolate. Spoon over as needed.
- Place the strawberries onto the parchment paper lined plate as you work.
- Once all your strawberries are covered in chocolate, move them to the fridge to set for an hour.
You can use this dipping chocolate for strawberries, along with any of your favorite fruits. This strawberry dipping chocolate is especially wonderful on frozen bananas and pitted cherries!
Special Tip: In the recipe card below, you will find measurements, and this easy to follow how to guide. There you can also find nutrition, and more for this low calorie chocolate covered strawberries recipe.
Up next, a shareable recipe card with measurements, how to guide, nutrition, and more.
Chocolate Covered Strawberries Recipe
This shareable recipe card makes chocolate covered strawberries easy. There, you can choose how many servings you want to make, and it will do the math on the measurements for you.
These 26 calorie chocolate covered strawberries are easy, and delicious! You’ll want to make them all year long…
LOW CALORIE Chocolate-Covered Strawberries
Equipment
- Parchment paper
Ingredients
- 10 strawberries
- 1/3 cup dark chocolate chips
- 1 teaspoon coconut oil
Instructions
- Set up a double boiler: Add some water to a small pot, place a heat safe bowl over the top of the pot so that it seals but does not touch water.
- Cover a plate with parchment paper, set aside.
- Bring the water to a boil, then add the chocolate and coconut oil to the bowl. Mix the chocolate as it melts.
- Once the chocolate is completely melted, dip the strawberries into the chocolate. Spoon over as needed.
- Place the strawberries onto the parchment paper lined plate as you work.
- Once all your strawberries are covered in chocolate, move them to the fridge to set for an hour.
Nutrition
Up next, nutrition and calories in chocolate covered strawberries…
Nutrition and Calories in Chocolate Covered Strawberries
Not all recipes for chocolate covered strawberries are made the same. This extra low calorie recipe can be found in the card above.
The nutrition below is based off 1 serving (1 Chocolate-Covered Strawberry) form the low calorie chocolate strawberry recipe above.
Important Note: As a reminder, at Lose Weight By Eating it is our goal to make you healthier, all-natural versions of your favorite recipes… not all will be “diet worthy” depending on the diet you are on. But they will be healthier versions to help curb your cravings.
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I will have to try these. My husband is more of a milk chocolate person, so maybe I will have to get creative. I also heard an idea to mix chocolate protein powder into the mix and that it can be good. Love when people think of new twists on classics to try.