Super easy to rustle up, Christmas chocolate bark is a scrumptious sweet gift for anyone – from family members (yes, that aunt you forgot last year), to friends and neighbors. And hand to heart, I also LOVE this chocolate for festive mid-meal snacking and to serve at holiday parties.
Homemade holiday bark
While I used white chocolate for my bark, you can choose any chocolate of your liking. I recommend couverture, a high-quality chocolate, which has a finer texture and contains a higher content of cocoa butter. These two characteristics create a richer chocolate flavor in my opinion.
When it comes to decorating, use ingredients according to your taste and what’s available in your kitchen cupboard. I cut out small stars of crystallized ginger to decorate my holiday bark. I also added crushed candied nuts and festive sprinkles for good measure.
Making candy bark is a lot of fun and a great holiday recipe to do with kids. So fold up your sleeves and get ready for a quick homemade chocolate treat.
Package and gift Christmas chocolate bark
I usually double or triple the recipe so I have more to give away. Thankfully, this homemade Christmas chocolate bark is totally doable in under one hour so that you can whip up a batch even last-minute. Package the chocolate bark in cellophane treat bags or mason jars and decorate with a pretty bow and a gift tag.
Christmas Chocolate Bark Recipe
You can easily customize the Christmas chocolate bark by swapping the white chocolate with the same amount of plain (semi-sweet) chocolate. Use 1/4 – 1/2 tsp orange, eggnog, or praline candy oil to further spruce up the candy bark.
Ingredients
- 225 g (8 oz) white chocolate, chopped
- 55 g (2 oz) yellow candy melts
- crystallized (candied) ginger slices
- candied nuts, crushed
- red sugar pearls
- sugar sprinkles
- orange confetti sprinkles
Instructions
- Prep work. Line a tray with clingfilm (Saran/plastic wrap) or baking (parchment) paper. Set aside.
- Melt the chocolates. Place the white chocolate and yellow candy melts into separate microwave-safe bowls. Melt each in the microwave for 30 seconds at a time. Stir in between each interval until the chocolate/melts have completely melted.
- Pour the white chocolate. Pour the melted white chocolate on the lined tray. Level the chocolate using an offset spatula. Be careful not to spread out the chocolate to thinly, a thickness of approximately 3 mm (1/8 in) is perfect. Gently tab the tray against the work surface to ensure the chocolate is evenly thick.
- Decorate the chocolate bark. Transfer the melted candy melts into a disposable piping (pastry) bag and snip off the tip. Pipe a few lines across the white chocolate. Using a cocktail stick (toothpick) or skewer, draw through the yellow lines to create a marbled pattern.
- Add sprinkles. Decorate the chocolate with candied nuts, sugar pearls, and confetti sprinkles or any other sprinkles you have at hand.
- Chill and serve the Christmas bark. Leave the chocolate bark in the fridge to set. Then break up to serve and gift.
