Easy Keto Chocolate Covered Strawberries
Published May 2, 2020 • Updated June 2, 2025
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Everything tastes better dipped in chocolate, especially strawberries. These keto chocolate covered strawberries are covered in a sugar free chocolate and can be made in minutes and make the perfect low-carb dessert to share or keep them all for yourself.
24
Servings
24
Calories
1.8g
Fat
0.1g
Protein
1.2g
Net Carb
3.9g
Total Carbs
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Easy Keto Chocolate Covered Strawberries Ingredients
24 large strawberries
pink or red food coloring (optional)
1 cup keto chocolate chips (white, milk or dark)
Easy Keto Chocolate Covered Strawberries Directions
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Clean the strawberries
Wash strawberries and let air dry completely or pat dry. The chocolate will adhere to the strawberries better if completely dried.
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Melt the chocolate
Add chocolate to a small glass bowl and microwave at 30 second intervals, stirring in between until chocolate is melted. You can also melt your chocolate using a double boiler if you don't want to use a microwave.
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Add the food coloring
If using sugar free white chocolate chips, stir in food coloring if using.
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Cover berries in chocolate
To dip the strawberries, hold each strawberry by the stem and dip into the melted chocolate. Turn the strawberry until all sides are covered with chocolate. Place on a sheet of parchment or wax paper to hardened.
One of my favorite ways to have ripe strawberries is to dip them in melted chocolate. Luckily on the keto diet, we can enjoy sugar free chocolate covered strawberries – meaning no sugar added from the chocolate.
Keto chocolate covered strawberries are very easy to make and only require two ingredients – strawberries and sugar-free, keto approved chocolate. Dip your berries in the warm melted chocolate and let them cool. You can put designs on your chocolate using white chocolate dyed different colors.
Devour these coated strawberries on your own as a special treat. Or gift them to someone you love, like on Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day or a special Anniversary.
Since the keto diet is becoming more and more popular, there are low carb companies that are making sugar free, keto approved chocolates. Always check the label though to make sure they are low in carbs and sugar free or close to sugar free as possible.
My favorite keto chocolate company is
I like to use a prepackaged keto white chocolate. Mostly out of convenience but also because of taste. The sugar free white chocolate I like to use is by
If at all possible, you should buy organic strawberries. Non-organic strawberries can be sprayed with up to 20 different pesticides. Organic berries tend to be more nutritious because organic farmers tend to the soils better.
Depending upon where in you live, most strawberries are in season beginning mid May to late June. Although most can find strawberries at the grocery store year round, the freshest, sweetest and juiciest strawberries are available during the peak of their season.
Strawberries prefer warm days and cool nights, which is why they grow the best on the West Coast – specifically California and Oregon. Both states have strawberry festivals to celebrate when the pump, juicy red fruit is in season.
Since the chocolate can melt, it is recommended to store you sugar free chocolate covered strawberries in the refrigerator. They are okay left at room temperature for a few hours which is ideal if you are serving them at a party or giving them as a Valentine’s Day or Mother’s Day gift.
I made these for a small family get-together and they disappeared fast. I used dark keto chocolate chips and the result was perfectly rich without being too sweet.