These zombie strawberries are frighteningly delicious and spooky! They’re also very easy and quick to make and are kid friendly. This would be a great recipe for the family to make together!
Ingredients
- 8oz fresh strawberries
- 1/2 bag of Wilton green candy melts
- Black edible food pen (found in the cake decorating isle at Wal-mart)
- 1 package of Wilton small candy eyeballs
- Wax paper
- Small glass microwave-safe bowl
Step 1: Gently wash and pat dry the strawberries. Set aside.
Step 2: Pour about 1 cup of the candy melts into the small glass micro-wave safe bowl. Microwave for 30 seconds (no more!), and stir. Microwave in 10 second intervals, stirring in between, until all of the candies have melted. Be careful when removing the bowl from the microwave, it might be hot.
Step 3: Cut a sheet of wax paper about 9″ x 13″ and place on a flat surface. Grab a strawberry near the stem (or gently press a fork into the top of the strawberry) and dip the strawberry into the melted candy. Gently twist and swirl the strawberry in the candy to cover as much of the strawberry as you can (tilting the bowl to one side also helps), then pull the strawberry out of the candy. Wait for the excess candy to drip off of the bottom of the strawberry, then set the strawberry down on the wax paper. After you have finished the first strawberry, move onto Step 4 before coating the rest of the strawberries.
Step 4: While the candy coating is still wet, gently press 2 of the candy eyeballs into the coating to set the eyeballs. If you wait for the coating to dry, the eyeballs will not stick. Once you’ve added the eyes to the first strawberry, go back to Step 3 and repeat steps 3 and 4 for each remaining strawberry. If you run low on melted candy, repeat Step 2 with 1/2 cup of candy melts.
Step 5: By the time you add the eyeballs to the last strawberry, the candy coating on most of the other strawberries will have dried. Now you can draw on the scary faces! Gently pick up one of the strawberries and use the edible black food pen to draw on a zombie mouth. I tried several different kinds of faces. Play around with it and see what you can come up with!
Note: If you make these the night before and keep them in the fridge overnight, the moisture from the refrigeration will cause the black pupils of the eyeballs to bleed out and have this awesome zombie eye effect (see the below photo). So if you do not want the black pupils to bleed out, serve the zomberries fresh!
Enjoy!
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