Making Chocolate Roses with the Wilton Melting Pot

The Wilton Melting Pot from our friends at Wilton helped us to make these fun chocolate dipped strawberry rose bouquets for Mother’s Day! How fun is this? 

Chocolate lovers will agree homemade chocolates are the best, and this chocolate heating pot is a wonderful way to dip ALL of the things. We also thought it was the perfect way to make a beautiful chocolate covered strawberry bouquet for Mom for Mother’s Day! 

You definitely don’t need this Wilton Candy Melts Candy Melting Pot to make these fun chocolate-covered strawberries, but it definitely makes it easier.

If you don’t have a chocolate melting machine, you’ll just need a heat source – or a microwave for melting chocolate to make these delicious desserts. Created just for home use, we are already big fans of this Wilton gadget – can you tell!? 

​What you’ll need to make a bouquet of chocolate roses:  

• Wilton Chocolate Melts also known as chocolate wafers (we used white, pink, and dark cocoa)
• Fresh strawberries
• Sucker sticks
• Chocolate melting pot
• Disposable candy decorating bag
• Pops decorating stand
• Icing bag ties
• Sprinkles

Instructions for making a Chocolate Dipped Strawberry Bouquet

1. Melt your chocolate. We highly recommend the Wilton Melting Pot, which has three settings. Melt, warm, and off. As soon as the candy is melted, switch to the warm setting to keep your chocolate at the perfect temperature for dipping.

2. Use sucker sticks to stick in strawberries so they are easier to handle when you stick into the strawberry. We like coating them with chocolate first to make them stick even better. 

3. You can leave your dipped strawberry plain or sprinkle with candy sprinkles, small pieces of crumbled cookies, or drizzle with melted chocolate. 

4. As you can see above, we used a sucker stick holder to hold our strawberries on a stick upright so that they could dry properly. It was a lifesaver with all of these treats setting up at the same time!

How to Decorate Your Chocolate-Dipped Strawberries

Get creative with your type of chocolate and chocolate colors! You can use any color of melting chocolate. If you are using dark chocolate to tip your berries in, then you might want to use white chocolate to drizzle on top of them.

For example, use milk chocolate for the dipping and a darker chocolate for the drizzle if you want some contrast. There are no rules when it comes to making these fun treat bouquets! The white chocolate covered strawberries look amazing with sprinkles and you can use any color to match your theme.

We LOVE how our chocolate covered strawberry bouquets turned out! It really does help to have a melting tank like the Wilton Candy Melts Candy Melting Pot. It keeps temperature control and achieving a desired temperature really simple.

These types of chocolate melting pots would be a great gift for teens or tweens and will help them create fun dipped chocolate creations in an orderly manner. While these types of chocolate warmers don’t necessarily temper chocolate, they do a great job of keeping it at a consistent temperature which will take a lot of the frustration out of melting a large quantity of chocolate at once. 

Tips for Making Fun Chocolate Treat Bouquets

​When dipping fruit, make sure that it is washed and completely dry before dipping in chocolate.

Use your imagination! If it can be dipped in chocolate, you can probably put it in a bouquet! 

If you have several chocolate melters, you can melt different colored chocolate melts to speed up your production! 

Try different candy toppings for your dipped goodies. 

You can use different length sucker sticks to create short and long-stemmed roses. Likewise, you can use a tiny dipped strawberry as a rose bud, and larger ones for a rose bloom.

To create different kinds of flowers in your chocolate bouquet, you can vary the size of the roses and also use other things like donuts or large pretzel sticks to add variety to your creation. Chocolate pops or small and large strawberries can help to create the look of an assorted bouquet. Who needs fresh flowers when you can have a specialty gift like an edible arrangement of flowers? 

You could also use your chocolate bouquet creations to decorate party tables, and then they double as dessert and decorations! Surround them with flowing chocolate fountains for a really sweet (literally!) party!

If you are using these for a party, you could set a single rose at each place setting as a party favor or bundle small roses (tiny chocolate dipped strawberries) for each guest.

Store in the fridge to keep your chocolate creation fresh. You might consider wrapping with a cello bag if you have to travel with it at all. 

While we created these fun bouquets for Mother’s Day – they would be great for any occasion: Valentine’s Day, birthdays, a sweet thank you gift, and they would also be really fun for bake sales or party celebrations!