The mission for this weekend started with marking holiday bark. It's a great gift to colleagues and friends. If you know the person well, you can add their favorite sweet to this chocolate treat. About a a week or two ago I purchased some chocolate melts to make some Thanksgiving lollipops. Unfortunately, I never used it so I thought this would be the perfect time to do so.
I like making bark. It's pretty simple and you can add your own spin to it. Maybe some candy canes or some almonds. The hardest part is melting the chocolate down and the chocolate melts make that pretty simple. Just pop them in the microwave for 30 seconds to 2 minutes (depending on how many) and it's melted and ready to be smeared on some parchment and topped with your favorite candy or dried fruit or nuts. Then into the fridge it goes to harden. It's that simple.
Of course, today's experiment was even more simple because in the end I realized this was not plain chocolate but chocolate mint melts. So,
I just put the chocolate in a silicon mold. Nice and easy.
Ingredients
12 oz Candy Melts
Tools: Silicon Mold -24 Cavity Gingerbread Man
*Note: If you are making bark spread chocolate on parchment paper on a baking sheet.
If you do not have candy melts you can use chocolate chips. Just add a little bit of shortening.
Directions:
Gently melt candy in the microwave 30 seconds at a time.
Using a spatula gently pour even amounts of chocolate into the cavities.
Refrigerate for 30 minutes to an hour.
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