Chocolate Strawberry Birds

Chocolate covered strawberry birds are a lovely festive treat. They’re also a fun project to make if you have a lot of chocolate and fresh strawberries to use up.

Enjoy these? Also try chocolate peppermint meringue kiss cookies, ginger snap eggnog jello pudding shots, or Valentine marshmallow pops.

Why You’ll Love It

Easy: Although these are every bit as cute as little treats you might find at a bakery or candy store, you’ll be happy to learn they’re really easy to make and you don’t have to be great at making desserts or have any special knowledge or equipment to create them.
Delicious: If you like strawberries and milk chocolate, there is no way you aren’t going to love these. Milk chocolate and strawberries go perfectly together.
Unusual: Perhaps you’ve never seen any treats quite like these before. And you’re going to love to eat them. Since they’re so unusual, you might like to put some in a gift box and gift to friends and family.

Chocolate Strawberry Birds Ingredients

A complete list of ingredients and amounts can be found in the recipe card below.

Fresh strawberries: The main ingredient!
Chocolate: Use milk chocolate or semisweet chocolate.
Decorations: Candy eyeballs and round orange sprinkles are used to create these edible festive penguins.

How to Make Chocolate Strawberry Birds

For more detailed instructions with weights and measurements, jump to the printable recipe card.

Melt the chocolate: Chop the chocolate and microwave it, in intervals, until melted, stirring often.
Prepare the strawberries: Wash and dry the strawberries. Make sure you dry them well, or else the chocolate isn’t going to stick.
Assemble the chocolate strawberry birds: Thread a strawberry on to a skewer and dip into the melted chocolate, before pressing on the candy eyes and making the orange sprinkles into a beak shape.
Let them set: Let the strawberry birds set for half an hour before serving.

Substitutions and Variations

Chocolate: It’s up to you whether to use milk chocolate or semisweet chocolate – either will work here.
Orange sprinkles: If you can’t find round orange sprinkles for the beaks, you can use any kind of orange candies. You should be able to get the round orange sprinkles (here) as a lot of places sell them.

Serving Suggestions

As an ice cream topping: Garnish a bowl of ice cream with one or two of these.
As a table centerpiece: Present them as a table centerpiece, perhaps adding a couple of savory appetizers too, such as spinach artichoke stuffed mushrooms, homemade jalapeno popcorn or holiday deviled eggs.
On a dessert charcuterie board: They would be an adorable addition to a dessert charcuterie board, too.

How to Store Strawberry Chocolate Birds

Store: These only have a maximum of one day life expectancy and they’re best served as soon as they’re ready. You can keep them refrigerated for a few hours though, until you’re ready to serve them.
Freeze: These chocolate strawberry penguins don’t freeze well at all, so enjoy them fresh. You can always halve the recipe if you aren’t going to have enough people there to eat them all in one day.