Choco-Style Japanese Fruits

Choco-Style Japanese Fruits is a tasty, cool summertime (or anytime) treat! The main stars of this dish are: Cantaloupe, Hachiya Persimmons, strawberries, and mandarin oranges.

TIP: You can use white chocolate, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, raspberry dark chocolate... or maybe all 3 together.

EXTRA TIP: You could also dip only certain fruit chunks into 1 certain chocolate bowl, e.g. Cantaloupe = dipped in White chocolate, Mandarins = dipped in Milk chocolate...

Ingredients

 * 1) Pre-Sliced Cantaloupe Slices (in your supermarket's fruit section. Check its sell-by date!)
 * 2) Fresh Strawberries (or frozen strawberries, but leave the bag out for 2 hours though. Then chop em'.)
 * 3) Peeled Hachiya Persimmons (wear gloves, and peel persimmons using an apple peeler.)
 * 4) Halves of Fresh Mandarins (peel the mandarins and take out the halves.)

Recipe Method

 * 1) Chop up the fruits on a cutting board, using a butterknife.
 * 2) Carefully cut the hard rind off of the Cantaloupe slices, saving the orange part.
 * 3) Chop the cantaloupe's orange part into chunks.
 * 4) Cut the strawberries.
 * 5) Cut the peeled persimmons.
 * 6) Peel up a Mandarin orange. Save the mandarin halves.
 * 7) Pour all fruit chunks into a bowl.
 * 8) Cover a big cookie tray with wax paper.
 * 9) Break up a bar of chocolate! Break it into squares.
 * 10) Put the chocolate squares into a microwave-safe bowl.
 * 11) Microwave the chocolate for almost 1 minute. When it's melted, take it out (with a potholder/washcloth on your hand).
 * 12) Get out a fork.
 * 13) Put a fruit chunk on the fork. Dip it in the bowl of microwave-melted chocolate.
 * 14) Put the coated fruit chunk on the cookie tray. Repeat steps 13. and 14. with all other fruit chunks.
 * 15) Freeze all the chocolate fruit chunks in the freezer for at least 1 hour.
 * 16) ENJOY!