Edible Glitter on Chocolate and Strawberries: What Works

The Monégasque Table · Aug 4, 2026 · 8m · transcript

Can you put edible glitter on chocolate and strawberries? Yes — but stir it into the melt and the chocolate eats it. Yes. Chocolate and candy are listed uses on the product's own technical sheet, and chocolate-covered strawberries are one of the easiest wins in dessert. The one rule: sparkle goes on the chocolate, never in it. Sprinkle glitter flakes while the dip is still wet, or brush luster dust on once it sets. Stirred into melted chocolate, the powder soaks up cocoa butter and the shimmer disappears. In this episode: why stirred-in shimmer vanishes — the oil-absorption number that…