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 just LOVE this post so much! I have so many great memories of my grandma buying me angel cake- my favourite cake to enjoy. Love the idea of the skewers and dipping into that delicious chocolate is divine!
So happy to have brought back some good memories, Jess! There is something pretty cool about Angel cake, isn’t there? And dipping it in warm chocolate doesn’t hurt, of course!
Oh no, Helen! Why are you doing this to me? That´s such an amazing idea. I loved it! Congratulations to your friend, expecting a baby is a bless.
Need to pin this now 😀
Thanks so much for pinning, Karla. Sorry to have tempted you so much, though … I know how you feel. Reading other people’s blogs often has me drooling, whatever time of day it is!
Have a great weekend, Karla!
Helen, I absolutely love these! Baby shower or Valentine’s, they are stunning. So pretty. Should make these for Valentine’s Day and honestly, angel food cake isn’t that bad for you, either is chocolate in small doses….or at least that’s what I keep telling myself! The presentation is quite lovely. And strawberries here (fingers crossed) have been pretty reasonable and in decent quality, thanks for sharing!
Laura, you’re so right that these would be good for Valentine’s Day. Silly me, that hadn’t even crossed my mind! I think you’re right that these aren’t too bad for you. Well, that’s what I think we should tell ourselves, anyhow! 😉
Hehe well we Antipodeans happen to have plenty of strawberries so I definitely appreciate this recipe! 😀
Yippee! I knew someone would appreciate them. They’d be great for Australia day, I reckon!
Those are some gorgeous angel food cake skewers, Helen! So perfect for any kind of shower, especially my virtual baby shower. 🙂 I really loved the pink squares of cake! Oh and the gorgeous strawberries (crushing on your red colander!). And who doesn’t love warm chocolate sauce? And like you said, it’s really so easy to make so then we can all spend more time eating. 🙂 Thank you so much for helping to host my virtual baby shower. I was really surprised by it. You are a lovely bunch of gals! XXO Congrats to your sister also!
Oh, Meggan, I’m so glad that you appreciated our little surprise so much! I was struggling there for a while trying to think of something appropriate, but I think I might have hit the nail on the head, if I may say so myself! I loved making these, and the experience was all the more sweet knowing it was in order to celebrate with you and your new daughter. 🙂
Aww so much to celebrate!! And these skewers do sound pretty perfect for doing so, imported strawberries and all!
Yup, who cares about a few imported strawberries once in a while? Glad you like these, Joanne!
HOLY COW those look so yummy!! This would be great to make when there is company over! Thanks for sharing! <3 – http://www.domesticgeekgirl.com
Hi Gingi … so glad you like these and I hope you give them a go some time!
This seems like a perfect baby shower app!! I love your idea to string the ingredients on skewers, so pretty!
Thank you so much, Marissa! I thought any new mother would appreciate this, if only to look at!
It might be the middle of winter over there Helen, but it is the middle of summer down here in NZ and strawberries are plentiful and delicious – so looking forward to making this soon. The food for this baby shower is lovely:)
Hello, Rachel! I’m so happy that this recipe works right now for you southern hemisphereans! I thought I would be a rebel and post a summer recipe to cheer us all up over here on a cold, snowy day. 🙂
Congrats!!
These would be the perfect dessert to serve at a party. great idea!
Thanks, Dannii! (on both counts!)