Strawberry & angel cake skewers with chocolate dipping sauce
on Jan 19, 2015, Updated Nov 23, 2022
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Now I know what you’re thinking. Strawberries? You posted a strawberry recipe in January, when the strawberries aren’t easy to find, are imported from Egypt when you do find them and cost £2 for a punnet of barely 10 strawberries?
Yup, I sure did. Because today I decided to pull out all the stops, throw caution to the wind and post a happy, summery, party recipe worthy of celebrating the arrival of two very special babies during this last week. Let me elaborate – not only did my sister give birth to my beautiful niece just a few days ago (very excited about that, needless to say!) but my wonderful friend Meggan of the food blog Culinary Hill has also just announced the arrival of her gorgeous daughter. So, what better excuse to combine three of my (anyone’s?) favourite foods aka strawberries, cake … oh, and chocolate, of course! Now I’m no expert on baby shower food, but it seems to me that a combination of these three ingredients would be happily gobbled up by any mother-to-be/new mother and her friends … am I right or am I right?
Of course, this is more of an idea than a recipe really, as all it entails is threading half-strawberries and cubes of pink and white angel cake onto skewers, presenting them nicely on a plate and then drizzling them with a quick and easy warm chocolate sauce. But hopefully you’ll agree that although you can throw these together in minutes, the result is as pretty and mouth-wateringly tasty as something you’d spend hours on.
To be honest, these are so easy to make that it isn’t necessary to say too much more about them – just that I chose to cut my strawberries in half before threading them onto the skewers and cut my cake into squares that roughly matched the width of the fruit. Also, my cake squares were simply cut from a store-bought cake called ‘Angel layer cake’ here in the UK (available from the big supermarkets – got mine from Tesco’s!) I chose this because it had pink and white layers that I could cut pretty cubes from, but if you can’t find the exact same thing where you live, I’m pretty sure you could find something similar … or even make your own cake to use if you prefer. A simple Angel Food cake or Madeira cake would be fine. As for the chocolate sauce, well, this is simply a mix of melted dark chocolate, butter, a tiny bit of sugar and cream. I spooned a little into a piping bag to drizzle over the plate of skewers and then poured the rest of the sauce into a bowl for easy dipping!
Sadly, here in the UK baby showers aren’t really ‘a thing’, so it’s with great pleasure that I get to take part in this virtual baby shower together with six of my favourite blogger buddies. Below is a list of all the other blogs taking part so that you can hop on over and take a look at what they’ve made – and hopefully get some ideas for the next baby shower you host or need to take some food along to. I promise you that you’re in for a treat – these are some of my favourite blogs that I enjoy reading every week and they’ve chosen some stunning recipes for Meggan’s shower …
Recipe Tin Eats – classic lamingtons
Culinary Ginger – white vanilla cupcakes with orange
Cooking LSL – condensed milk cookies
Omnivore’s Cookbook – healthy green curry mac and cheese
Baking a Moment – persimmon cheesecake
Thank you so much for reading this far and helping us to celebrate with Meggan!
I really hope you like the strawberry and angel cake skewers (not forgetting the chocolate dipping sauce – mmmm!) and hope that you’ll live dangerously with me this January and eat something deliciously inappropriate like this. Unless of course you live in Australia, in which case … LUCKY YOU and you can stuff yourself to your heart’s content with these and other summer treats! Nope, not jealous at all. (< barefaced lie).
Strawberry & angel cake skewers with chocolate dipping sauce
Ingredients
For the skewers
- strawberries, cut in half length-wise (3 halves per skewer)
- a simple store-bought Angel or Madeira cake, cut into cubes a similar width to the strawberries (see notes)
- wooden skewers
For the warm chocolate sauce
- 1.75 ounces dark chocolate
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1/2 cup cream
- 1 teaspoon sugar
Instructions
- Thread the half-strawberries and cake cubes onto the skewers alternately. Arrange on a plate.
- To make the sauce, melt the chocolate in 30-second intervals in a medium bowl in the microwave or over a simmering pan of water. Meanwhile, combine the butter, cream and sugar in a small pan and heat until well combined.
- Pour the cream and butter mixture over the chocolate and whisk until smooth.
- Drizzle a little of the chocolate sauce over the skewers (I used a disposable piping bag), then serve with the rest of the sauce in a bowl on the side for dipping.
Notes
Nutrition
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I am ABSOLUTELY in love with this idea Helen!!! Luckily we get strawberries only in the winter (which is not really winter here in Mumbai at 25 degrees C) LOL! But then I can make these beautiful skewers! We do get this cake in stores so it’s a double yay! Loving the chocolate dipping sauce!!!! I could eat it by the spoonful.
Well, I’ll let you into a little secret, Samina … I actually DID eat quite a bit of the sauce with a big spoon. Ooops! Where did the January good intentions go?
I’m a bit jealous of your winter strawberries, Samina – to be honest the ones I used for this recipe weren’t the best 😉
Congratulations Helen! These skewers look wonderful and perfect for baby shower! Love the nice texture of the cake and strawberries!
Thank you, Maggie! I couldn’t resist how pretty these are – winter or not!
CONGRATS on becoming a new aunt!!!! You won me over with “chocolate dipping sauce”!!! These skewers are gorgeous – it’s been so long since I had Madeira cake – thanks for jogging my memory, Helen!
Thank you so much for the contrats, Shashi … we are very happy, as you can imagine!
Glad you like the skewers, too. The chocolate sauce is definitely what makes them!
What a beautiful way to celebrate not one, but two babies! Perfect, irresistible shower food!
I know, aren’t they pretty? I just couldn’t resist, even though it’s totally the wrong season!
These are SO PRETTY Helen! And just perfect for a baby shower. Congratulations on being an Aunt! Nothing is more exciting than a brand new baby… 🙂
Thank you so much for the congrats, Allie … my new niece is beautiful and we are all very excited about it! 🙂
Being well versed in throwing baby (and bridal) showers (with more to come, undoubtedly), this is perfect shower food. Congrats Auntie Helen!
Thank you so much, Chrissy! It’s very exciting and glad you like the skewers!
Hi Helen, love these sweet skewers and the chocolate dipping sauce. How thoughtful of you all to get together for this virtual shower.
Hello, Cheri, and thank you! Meggan is a great girl and definitely deserved it. 🙂
I love seeing summery fruit in the winter, I think it cheers people up. I love this recipe idea, I’ll be trying this soon.
Totally agree! I wouldn’t buy strawberries all the time in winter over here because they just don’t taste as good as the local ones in the summer, but I was feeling like a bit of a rebel when I decided to make these! 😉
These look great Helen! Great for Meggan’s baby shower!
Thanks so much, Mira – happy you like them!
Congratulations to you too! It must be so exciting to have a brand-new little niece! These are perfect for a baby showers and strawberries are one of my favorite fruits, so these skewers are totally calling my name!
Oh, I love strawberries, too – especially dipped in chocolate! Glad you like them, Kathleen!