The chocolate covered fruit doesn't stop there – we also swirl and drizzle our chocolate covered strawberries with delicious milk, dark and white chocolate, and top them with chocolate chips, nuts, and more treats that they're guaranteed to love.

In fact, chocolate-covered strawberries were originally paired together because they're two of the world's most famous aphrodisiacs. Today chocolate-covered strawberries are a common Valentine's Day treat, and are often found on buffet tables at weddings.

We pack each berry by hand in protective packaging, complete with ice packs, to keep the fruit sweet and cool.

Shari's new brand, Berried in Chocolate, is the real McCoy and the only place you will find Shari Fitzpatrick's original chocolate strawberries!

Balsamic vinegar + orange juice + lime juice - Imagine the dressing on a Strawberry-Spinach Salad, now in snack form. Lemon curd - Why bother baking a whole cake (especially on a hot summer day), when you can just dip strawberries in it? Mascarpone. Crème fraîche - You can't go wrong with strawberries and cream.

Eat them the way nature made them. Scientifically, the sugar draws out the fruit's water, making the fruit softer and creating a syrup. Of course, the fruit also tastes sweeter. Duh.

Strawberries are a symbol of purity and sensuality, fertility and abundance, humility and modesty. The strawberry's fruit is made the symbol of perfect goodness because of its delicious flavor and fragrance.

So why the connection to this holiday? Well, strawberries along with chocolate have long been commonly considered to be an aphrodisiac which makes them a seemingly desirable treat to market around Valentine's Day. Plus, in Ancient Rome, the strawberry was a symbol of Venus, goddess of love.

Clamshell packaging is the go-to packaging type for strawberries. These containers are made from rigid plastics and will come with a lid made from the same material. Usually, the lid will be attached to the container itself, preventing it from being misplaced.

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Later, the name was changed to strawberry - possibly from the practice of English children threading the berries on pieces of straw for sale or from the 19th century practice of laying straw around the strawberry plants to protect them from bad weather.

Lorraine Lorusso While both chocolate and strawberries have been around for a while, it wasn't until the 1960s that the idea to combine them was born. A woman working at a gourmet store in Chicago, Lorraine Lorusso of the Stop 'N' Shop, is said to be the inventor of this delicious treat.

Fruit dip is made of simple ingredients: cream cheese, marshmallow fluff and fresh strawberries. The old fashioned recipe uses orange juice concentrate instead of fresh strawberries, and that's fine, but I don't want the leftovers in my freezer.

You can serve the refrigerated chocolate strawberries chilled or let sit at room temperature for 30 minutes. Chilled strawberries will have a nice crunch to the chocolate, whereas room temperature strawberries will have slightly softer chocolate.

Because sugar is a natural preservative, macerating is a great method for extending the life of berries that are less than perfect in appearance or just past their prime. Fruit prepared this way can last for up to three or four days covered in the fridge.

Maceration is a process in which produce (usually fruit) sits in a flavorful substance (usually sugar, vinegar, or juice), tenderizing the ingredient and intensifying its natural flavors.