{"id":4049,"date":"2012-06-29T17:10:03","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T17:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/?p=4049"},"modified":"2012-06-29T17:12:49","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T17:12:49","slug":"chocolate-covered-blueberries-oh-yeah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/chocolate-covered-blueberries-oh-yeah\/","title":{"rendered":"Frozen Chocolate Covered Blueberries… Oh yeah…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our second sweet reward for time spent last week blueberry picking involved chocolate!<\/p>\n

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We made frozen\u00a0chocolate-covered blueberries!!<\/p>\n

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And on par with my non-cooking abilities… it was super-duper simple.<\/p>\n

I found some recipes online that involved shortening… and well… simply decided I would skip the shortening and see if it would work with just plain old melted chocolate chips. \u00a0Simple, for me, is always better.<\/p>\n

And I can gladly report that it worked quite well!<\/p>\n

We purchased a bag of milk chocolate chips, a bag of white chocolate chips – and I snuck in a bag of shredded coconut as a special treat for myself \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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We melted the chocolate in the microwave… I started with about 1\/2 the bag (which was way too much), stirred after a minute, did 30 seconds more… and it was ready. \u00a0We also melted a small amount of white chocolate chips for “decoration.”<\/p>\n

We used unfrozen berries (I saw somewhere on the web that the water from the thawing frozen berries won’t stick to the chocolate). \u00a0So ours were dry berries out of the refrigerator. \u00a0Well – you can see they were a little bit wet… but it didn’t seem to matter.<\/p>\n

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We just dropped them in one or two at a time and scooped ’em out with a fork.<\/p>\n

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Easy Peasy!<\/p>\n

Then we laid them out on a piece of wax paper on a plate. \u00a0We drizzled white chocolate over some and I drizzled coconut sprinkles over others. \u00a0Then we put them into the freezer for a few hours. \u00a0After they were frozen we moved them into a freezer-safe container.<\/p>\n

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My only real advice…<\/em> (because this one is so easy it really needs very little advice)<\/p>\n

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is to only make a small amount.<\/p>\n

Why?<\/p>\n

Because they are so good it’s nearly impossible not to eat them all in one sitting. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/p>\n

Avoid the temptation by stopping at just a plate full! \u00a0lol<\/strong><\/p>\n

The kids started out a little grumpy about yet another “project” mommy was making them do… “But mom! \u00a0We don’t want any more blueberries!!”<\/em> \u00a0and “But mom! \u00a0We will have to wait before we can eat them!!”<\/em> \u00a0Patience is not necessarily something we’re good at around here yet. \u00a0I persisted. \u00a0It didn’t take long for them to realize it was kinda fun… and that on top of that… even when not yet frozen… blueberries covered in chocolate taste really, really good… (I mean… who could’ve doubted that??).<\/p>\n

I think they may have been expecting something similar to the chocolate covered blueberries sold at Costco… which really taste more like chocolate-covered-blueberry-flavored-fruit-snacks… which weren’t a big hit around here.<\/p>\n

But real chocolate covered blueberries? \u00a0They don’t even compare. And they couldn’t WAIT to tell Daddy about what they made when he got home!<\/p>\n

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Yum! \u00a0Yum!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our second sweet reward for time spent last week blueberry picking involved chocolate! We made frozen\u00a0chocolate-covered blueberries!! And on par with my non-cooking abilities… it was super-duper simple. I found some recipes online that involved shortening… and well… simply decided I would skip the shortening and see if it would work with just plain old […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,423],"class_list":["post-4049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blueberries","tag-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4058,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049\/revisions\/4058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}