Chocolate-Covered Strawberries in Bracknell
Strawberries dipped in dark, milk or white chocolate, drizzled and finished, boxed and ribboned. Made the day you collect them, because that is the only day they are at their best.
Priced per box rather than from a list — the fruit is the cost and the fruit changes with the season. Ask and the answer comes back the same day. Delivery across Berkshire from £30.
What does a box cost?
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
A box of dipped strawberries Priced on the day by what fruit costs — ask and the answer comes back the same day As many as you need | Quoted per box |
A box alongside a cake The commonest way they are ordered, and they travel in the same delivery — | Added to the cake order |
4" bento cake instead If what you want is a small gift that keeps more than a day 4 portions | £70 |
There is no price list for these and this page would rather say so than print a number nobody has agreed. Most are ordered beside a cake, which is also the cheapest way to get them — one delivery instead of two. Everything that does have a fixed price is in one place.
Order dipped strawberries
We reply within 24 hours with a price. No deposit is taken until you are happy with the quote.
Not ready to send it? What follows answers most of what people ask first.
How long it takes
7–10 days for a simple design, at least 14 for two tiers.
Sooner is sometimes possible: a rush adds 50% when the notice is under 7 days, if the diary is clear.
In a hurry? Bento cakes take 3–5 days.
Delivery
From £30, quoted by distance from RG12 0UY.
Collection from Bracknell is free — see the areas we cover.
Paying
50% deposit to hold your date; orders under £50 are paid in full.
Balance 3 hours before collection, or cash on the day.
The deposit is non-refundable but transferable with 4 days' notice — full terms.
Why do these have to be made on the day?
Because a strawberry does not stop being fruit when you put chocolate on it. It keeps respiring and losing moisture, and that moisture has nowhere to go: it collects between the berry and the shell. Within a day the chocolate loosens from the fruit, and within two the box has juice in the bottom of it. Nothing can be done about this — it is the fruit, not the chocolate.
So the practical rule is to order them for the day they will be eaten and to resist getting ahead. That makes them the opposite of almost everything else here: a cake improves on its second day once the layers have settled, and these are at their peak about an hour after they are dipped.
What makes one box better than another?
The fruit, by a long way. Chocolate is chocolate and the dipping is five minutes of work — what separates a good box from a disappointing one is whether the berries were ripe, dry and the same size, and whether they were dipped at room temperature rather than straight from a cold fridge. A cold berry sweats under its shell before it has even been boxed.
The second thing is restraint. Three chocolates, a drizzle and a scattering is a box that looks expensive; the same berries under four colours of sprinkle, crushed biscuit and a gold leaf look like they are hiding something. Sprinkles are included at no charge — silver, gold, white, multi colours.
When are strawberries actually worth buying?
British strawberries run from roughly May to September, and in those months the fruit is sweet, scented and soft. Outside them the berries come from Spain, Morocco or Egypt and are firmer, paler inside and less fragrant — which, oddly, makes them easier to dip and better at holding a clean shell. Neither is wrong; they are different products and it is worth knowing which one you are ordering.
These sit beside the other things that are boxed rather than cut — gift boxes and hampers has the rest, and Valentine’s is the week they are ordered most. For a gift that keeps longer than a day, a four-inch bento is the better answer.
What else do people ask?
Allergies? Our kitchen handles all 14 of the allergens UK law requires us to declare, so nothing we bake is free from any of them. What is in each cake, and our hygiene rating.