-Strawberries + white chocolate + crushed graham crackers

-Add crystallized ginger to the dipping chocolate

-I've also seen someone inject them with champagne into the hollow part, though I can't imagine you could keep those very long after making.

There's a local candy shop in my city that's famous for their chocolate dipped strawberries, but I'm much more partial to their chocolate dipped raspberries and - surprisingly - grapes. They definitely use a sweeter grape, like black or red- not a green variety. So good! The raspberries are served in tiny cupcake liners and I think the chocolate is just poured on top, so they're more like chocolate raspberry clusters. Those are my hubby's favorite. They're sold by the half dozen and always come in a little egg carton - no matter what time of year you order them. Could be super cute DIY packaging for Easter gifts.

We gave cake pops to each of our guests at Easter and they were incredibly popular!

The hands-down best way to eat strawberries (and believe me, I love chocolate), is to first dip them in sour cream, then into brown sugar. Trust me on this.

I know you couldn't gift them pre-dipped, but perhaps you could put the sour cream and brown sugar in cute containers, along with "instructions" on a new way of eating them?

The company I work for hulls out the strawberries and fills them with cheesecake and then dips them in strawberries. Um, delicious.

Shoot your strawberries with Grand Marnier, then dip....YUMMMMY!

shoot=inject (sorry for any confusion!)

I don't know if this counts exactly as chocolate dipped fruit but I put some navel orange sections in a bowl of rich, homemade, dark chocolate pudding a couple of weeks ago and it was terrific. In the summer, raspberries go in the pudding too. I'm going to drool on my keyboard just thinking about it.

Would orange sections last long enough to give as gifts?

Chocolate-dipped candied orange peel is a favorite of mine.

Chocolate-dipped dried apricots are also yummy. I made them along with chocolate covered strawberries at a recent party and kept overhearing..."ohh, these are so good!" and "try the chocolate covered apricots".

If you coat the strawberry in powered sugar before dipping them into the chocolate it makes the strawberry extra juicy!

Pomegranate seeds. Melt the chocolate, stir in the seeds, spoon onto a tray, chill in the fridge. Love.

Make a necklace? Use for earplugs. Use as tree ornaments? Place on a birthday cake and light the stems like candles. Put them on your dinner guests' chairs as a nice suprise. Drop a few on to the pool table when no one is looking and play squishy billiards! Put them in your husband's shoes for a get-ready-for-work smile. Make a passe pupu platter by arranging them with cupcakes.

I've had these amazing chocolate dipped strawberries that are filled with condensed milk and then dipped in white or dark chocolate or both. Omg. It's a bit of work because you might have to hollow out the smaller berries to get enough space for the condensed milk, but it's delicious!

I recently saw this fresh fruit chocolate bar on Pinterest and thought it was a cool new idea: http://pinterest.com/pin/16191296/

Chocolate covered dried fruit is great. Chocolate dipped apricots, as someone suggested above, but also dried blueberries, cherries, etc.

Dark chocolate on fresh/dried/candied pineapple is fantastic! You can also dip maraschino cherries (with their stems) and then let them dry in clusters of 3. Super cute and a take on chulla cherries.

Amy, can I be your friend? I promise I won't ever find chocolate-dipped strawberry gifts predictable.

Creme Brulee (sp?) them. Only works for really big strawberries but you can hollow them out some and fill with creme brulee and carmalize the tops. Very Very nummy (and I can't spell to save my life tonight

I love this woman's blog about cooking and she did a full entry about dipping strawberries.

http://www.howsweeteats.com/2010/05/not-chocolate-dipped-strawberries/

The local Renaissance fair has three or four fresh raspberries covered with dark chocolate, with a last berry on top.

bananas? kiwi?

what about dried fruit?

I like to use dried pears. Dip one half in white or dark chocolate, then drizzle the contrasting chocolate over the whole piece. This also works well with dried pineapple rings (try to buy the smaller ones).

Grapes!

Here in Austin Lammes has them as a seasonal item and they are fabulous!

Single red grapes fully dipped. The ones they use are smallish and sweet. So good! Mmmmm...

I like half-dipping orange sections (mandarin work best because they segment so well) the little pockets of juice pop in your mouth contrasting the rich chocolate.
I also like to spear (green) apple slices on kabob skewers and dip, covering as much as possible to avoid browning, and serve as a bouquet in a tall glass. Again the contrast of the citric acid and rich chocolate is perfect.

I love chocolate dipped pineapple chunks. Yum.

I totally third the chocolate and oranges. When I was in college, sometimes I would have a couple of clementines for dinner and dip them in warmed hot fudge sauce. It was amazing.

You could also try blueberries or the less-tart varieties of gooseberries, if you dip the whole things in chocolate. Frozen bananas dipped in chocolate are also amazing.

But yes, oranges are really effing good with chocolate. And like others said, mandarin or clementine oranges section nicely without the skin breaking and would be perfect for dipping in chocolate.

When Blueberry season comes I am going to try dipping them in chocolate but I may also try freezing them first then dipping them when they thaw out they may be like cherries how their is a lot of juice in them or it may just be too messy that way.

I love fresh pineapple dipped in chocolate!

I actually just saw this on a new Blog I have been following and it absolutely blew my mind and just so happens to fit your criteria! Cupcake stuffed, chocolate dipped, Strawberries! Here is the site I saw it on: www.1finecookie.com

Maybe for something different try using freeze-dried strawberries? You could also do freeze-dried blueberries and/or raspberries in dark chocolate too.

They will last a lot longer this way too.