A dessert version of chips and salsa has gone viral on TikTok as a new food trend, showing you can get creative with your food.
What happens when you swap tortilla chips for chocolate and salsa for diced strawberries? Pure genius, according to millions of TikTok users who can’t stop making this viral dessert twist. The “dessert chips and salsa” trend has everyone breaking up chocolate bark and dipping it into sweet strawberry “salsa” – and it’s way better than it sounds. Here’s how a simple ingredient swap created the internet’s newest obsession and why even Tostitos is commenting on the videos.
Turning chips and salsa into a sweet treat
If you think of the traditional version of chips and salsa, you will never want it for dessert, unless you have some strange cravings. Still, even with cravings, you aren’t likely to call this dessert. Instead of traditional tortilla chips, this new chocolate and strawberry dessert item has become one of the latest viral TikTok dessert trends. It’s pretty simple, with chocolate pieces and strawberries that are made to look a little like salsa, becoming the sweet treat that you might want after dinner.
How do you make this sweet treat
The dessert chips and salsa that’s gone viral on TikTok seems pretty simple, but there are a few steps to it. You’ve got to melt chocolate chips and spread them thin on a sheet pan to make a chocolate bark dessert foundation that is thin and somewhat crispy, like tortilla chips. Once spread, you freeze the chocolate and then break it into chips. These sweet chips can then be dipped and eaten with the strawberry salsa that you create.
While the dessert chips are freezing, the other part of this recipe is to make the strawberry salsa to go with the chocolate. This is pretty easy, all you have to do is chop the strawberries into small chunks, allowing them to resemble the tomatoes in actual salsa. Once you’ve got that done, and the chocolate broken into chips, it’s time to enjoy your sweet treat.
Something different for Valentine’s Day
Chocolate-covered strawberries are one of the most traditional treats enjoyed on Valentine’s Day, but now you have something different to share with your date. There are many TikTok food hacks to choose from, but this one has to be one of the easiest to complete and enjoy. The simplicity of chocolate and strawberries together makes it easy to enjoy such a sweet treat and feel like you’re eating chips and salsa together.
Can you take things to another level?
This viral recipe for dessert chips and salsa going around TikTok can make you seem like a culinary genius when you serve it up to your date or share with your family, but you can certainly take things to a new level by adding other items to the mix.
How about some strawberry sauce?
One of the signature features of salsa is the juiciness that comes from the tomatoes and peppers in the spicy snack. Instead of just going with chunky strawberries to make your salsa, add some sweet strawberry sauce to the mix to make things even sweeter. You’ll want to try various ratios to figure out which combination works best and isn’t too sweet for your enjoyment.
Add ice cream to the mix
What could be better than some chocolate pieces shaped like chips, some chopped strawberries, and a scoop of ice cream? You can make the ice cream part of your dipping experience, or let the chocolate and strawberries be a traditional sundae that you enjoy as a wonderful dessert.
Other fruit and chocolate combinations
While strawberries go well with both dark and milk chocolate, if you want to try other fruits with chocolate, you might want to choose the right version of the dark, sweet treat for your dessert pairing. Here are some traditional pairings with each:
- Dark Chocolate goes well with:
- Apricots
- Orange slices
- Cherries
- Blueberries
- Kiwi
- Raspberries
- Peach slices
- Blackberries
- Lemon
- Milk chocolate goes well with:
- Pineapple
How about some nuts?
As you spread your melted chocolate on a cookie sheet to make your dessert chips and salsa that you’ve seen on TikTok, you might enjoy this dessert even more if you add some nuts to the mix. Chopped dessert nuts could be perfect, or maybe you put your favorites in the mix. This is another opportunity to experiment with the recipe.
The dessert chips and salsa on TikTok got the attention of Tostitos and Nestle, with different comments and reactions, adding to the fun of this new twist on a classic pairing.
Will you try this dessert treat for yourself soon?
