There are few foods that go together so well as chocolate and strawberries. Just think about chocolate dipped strawberries if you don’t believe me. This collection of chocolate and strawberry recipes contains includes pretty much any recipe you’d ever want to make and more. From cake to meringue to ice cream and everything in between.
Strawberries proved to be a popular choice for this month’s We Should Cocoa. We had our highest number of participants yet – 24 in total. As I have now come to expect with all the creative food bloggers out there, the diversity of entries is literally the proof of the pudding. It’s good to see contributors new and old. I know I sound like a stuck record, but I’d like to try each and every one of these. Do take a look at these posts, they are well worth the effort. And don’t forget to check out the Chocolate Teapot on July 1st for next month’s challenge.
A creature of habit, I am listing these in the order that they came in.
Dom, making a departure from his usual late arrival got us off to an early start with his Chocolate Roulade with Strawberries and Cream. What’s that I hear you ask, wasn’t that last month’s challenge? Well yes, Dom didn’t quite make it for the May Roulade round-up so snuck in first for this month instead.
Amazingly not everyone in Suelle’s family likes strawberries. This meant she was unable to put strawberries in her actual baking, but served them on the side as recommended by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall! White Chocolate Blondies with Macerated Strawberries.
Sarah of What I Baked This Weekend made a stack of Chocolate Strawberry Shortcakes. I do so like this combination, but Sarah went one stage further and used rosewater in the cream filling.
Carly of Tart to Heart always has such stunning photos of her creations that I always want to eat them straight off the screen. She’s used her abiding love of eclairs for this month’s entry with these Chocolate Covered Strawberry Eclairs.
Roasted Strawberry Chocolate Cupcakes
Individual roasted strawberry chocolate cupcakes flavoured with intense roasted strawberry purée. First I tried to ice them with Italian meringue buttercream, but it wasn’t a success. So I ended up using strawberry whipped cream instead. Whatever you top them with, however, the cakes taste fabulous.
Chocolate Strawberry Meringue Cake
I’m getting the idea that stunning cakes layered with meringues are a speciality over at Sniff & Snort. This month she has given us Meringue, Chocolate, Butterscotch and Strawberries.
Although disappointed that her muffins hadn’t risen into a dome, C of Cake Crumbs and Cooking had to admit that her White Chocolate and Strawberry Muffins tasted good. I’m very sure they tasted good and the inside looks particularly tempting.
Hanna of Corner Cottage Bakery came up with a great twist on the classic nachos with her Chips and Dips. A chocolate natcho shaped biscuit to dip into strawberry salsa.
Aveen of Baking Obsessively had to think “mushy”. She’d just had her wisdom tooth taken out and couldn’t eat anything she had to chew. No problem, she came up with Stracciatella Ice Cream with Macerated Strawberries, which I defy anyone not to enjoy.
Not to be outdone and reasoning that it is indeed summer, Phil of As Strong As Soup plumped for ice cream too. Made with yogurt, you could kid yourself that this Strawberry and White Chocolate Ice is almost healthy. Phil even throws in a recipe for Langues de Chat – just in case anyone’s starting to feel virtuous.
Strawberry Chocolate Heart Cake
As my chocolate and fairy cakes were a complete disaster, I ended up making another decadent bake instead. This strawberry chocolate heart cake for two is utterly delectable. So move over fairy cakes I say.
These Strawberry Goat Cheese Brownies are a top selling item for Victoria of The District Chocoholic. Is anyone surprised?
Michelle of Food, Football and a Baby gave us more of the delicious strawberry shortbread combination with her Strawberry and Chocolate Shortcake. Whilst you are drooling over this, do check out her home made cake stand.
Now what a hard choice to make, scones made with raspberries or scones made with strawberries? BrownieVilleGirl plumped for the latter on this occasion. Scone in No Time made with frozen butter also contained white chocolate.
First timer Jean of Baking in Franglais had Wimbledon very much in mind for this challenge. Her Strawberry & White Chocolate Muffins would be just the thing to munch on whilst watching a match.
Shaheen says
Lovely to see all these strawberry delights. I am so sorry I missed out, I’ve only managed to harvest a handful of wild strawberries that were to be enjoyed au naturale.
Chele says
Another great round up! Thanks so much to everyone who took part, its always great to see what eberyone will come up with. I have tried to leave comments on all the posts but owing to a small blogger issue for some reason I can’t comment on all the posts … including my own!
Brownieville Girl says
Another fantastic round-up!
What wonderfully talented people – I’m off the read the (few) I haven’t seen already!!
Lizzy says
Amazing group of recipes! Everything looks truly delicious…I don’t know which one to try first~
Nic@daydreamaboutfood says
So many great recipes. I’m going to have to set some time aside to make them. Looking forward to the next challenge.
Dom at Belleau Kitchen says
arent we fabulous!!! what a brilliant round up this month… i’ll be on time again next month I promise… sort of… x
sniffandsnort says
Awesome round up. I’m so pleased I got round to doing this one. Look forward to t next.
C says
Lovely round up, and some really inspiring recipes there. I enjoy the round ups – there are always blogs I want to explore more of, and interesting ways to use the ingredients that had never even occurred to me!
MissCakeBaker says
Great round up with lots of recipes I want to try. Look forward to seeing what July holds.
Johanna GGG says
Lovely round up of lovely bakes – makes me wish for summer – I had an idea for this event but just didn’t quite get around to strawberry baking because it was hard to get enthused about strawberries in winter – but am sure when summer is here I will be enthused and heading back here
A Trifle Rushed says
What talented people, they all look Fab. Sorry to have missed this month’s deadline, I will endeavour to enter in July.
Kath says
What lovely recipes this month. I am so glad other bloggers had better luck than my own dismissed attempt.
Paula..SweetHarts Cakes and Bakes says
Great round up…everyone did so well! Looking forward to the next challenge! 🙂
Michelle Peters - Jones says
Beautiful roundup!! I am going to be pretty plump at the end of the summer with all these recipes to keep me company!
Gloria says
I love strawberries and chocolate and look fantastic, a delicious round up!! gloria
Suelle says
A great looking set of recipes. I’m particularly impressed by those who cooked the strawberries into their chocolate concoction!
Baking Addict says
Excellent round up as always. Looking forward to July’s challenge.
Kate@katescakesandbakes says
Wow! What a brilliant round up! So many delicious looking recipes!
(and with that she’s gone, popping round to a late night grocer to stock up on strawberries to try out all these recipes… its going to be a late night!)